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    Llandow (Welsh: Llandŵ) is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 726. The village...
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  • Llandow Circuit is a small, family owned and run motorsport circuit at Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan, 15 miles (24 km) south west of Cardiff, Wales, used...
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    Royal Air Force Llandow or more simply RAF Llandow is a former Royal Air Force station situated near the village of Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan, South...
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    The Llandow air disaster was an aircraft accident in Wales in 1950. At that time it was the world's worst air disaster, with a total of 80 fatalities...
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    service with Airflight Ltd, on a charter flight from Ireland, crashed at RAF Llandow, South Wales, with the resulting death of 80 of its passengers and crew...
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  • for his restoration of the chancel of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Llandow during his incumbency in 1712. The event is recorded in Latin by a stone...
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    with Llanblethian (town) Dinas Powys Ewenny Llanmaes Llancarfan Llandough Llandow Llanfair Llangan Llantwit Major (town) Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith...
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  • Llandow Halt railway station served the village of Llandow in South Wales. When the Vale of Glamorgan Railway opened in 1897, four of its five original...
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    Llandow (between 1995 and 2022 known as Llandow/Ewenny or Llandow and Ewenny), is the name of an electoral ward in the west of the Vale of Glamorgan,...
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    Unit at RAF Llandow near Cardiff. His first flight in a Spitfire occurred on 7 August 1941. On 18 August, while still stationed at Llandow, he flew a Spitfire...
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    Davies. Hancorne was given the rectorship of St Donats on 13 July 1674 and Llandow on 16 December 1681, and was appointed as the curate of Monknash on 17...
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    was the world's deadliest aviation disaster at the time, surpassing the Llandow air disaster, which killed 80 people. The death toll would not be surpassed...
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    It was linked to the aircraft storage and maintenance facility at RAF Llandow. During the war a dummy airfield was built using wood and cardboard a few...
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    Castleland, Court, Cowbridge, Dinas Powys, Dyfan, Gibbonsdown, Illtyd, Llandow, Llantwit Major, Peterson-super-Ely, Rhoose, St Athan, Sully, and Wenvoe...
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  • to the car's seller to source the new interior. Restored car taken to Llandow Circuit to be tested against a Ford Escort Mexico, Dolomite Sprint's rival...
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  • G-AJVZ Douglas Dakota 3 1951 Ringway Dakota accident G-AKBY Avro Tudor 5 Llandow air disaster G-AKNU Short Solent 3 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash G-ALAM...
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  • in 1948. The new airfield at Rhoose was urgently needed to relieve RAF Llandow. The latter opened as an Aircraft Storage Unit (A.S.U.) but was then allocated...
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  • Llandow (Wick Road) Halt railway station was a short-lived railway station in South Wales. The halt was opened to serve RAF Llandow after the development...
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  • Llancadle Llancarfan Llandough (near Cowbridge) Llandough (near Cardiff) Llandow Llangan Llanmaes Llanmihangel Llansannor Llantrithyd Llantwit Major Llysworney...
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    were previous crashes with higher death tolls. Eighty died in the 1950 Llandow air disaster in Wales, United Kingdom, and the deadliest military aviation...
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  • the ground. March 12 – The Llandow air disaster: An Airflight Avro 689 Tudor V stalled and crashed on approach to Llandow Aewrodrome due to improper loading...
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    Sutton is a small hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, just south of Llandow. Sutton was once home to the Turbervill family, and Edward Turbervill once had...
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    of the 1950 Llandow Air Disaster when an Avro 689 Tudor V crashed killing 80. The aircraft was on its final approach to the nearby Llandow aerodrome. Wikimedia...
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    Cowbridge with Llanblethian Dinas Powys Ewenny Llanmaes Llancarfan Llandough Llandow Llanfair Llangan Llantwit Major Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith Penarth...
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    south of Bridgend. Two streams join near Llandow village to form the river: the Stembridge Brook and the Llandow Brook. After the confluence it flows in...
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  • when G-AKBY was used for a rugby charter and crashed on approach to RAF Llandow in Wales on 12 March 1950. The month after the disaster the company merged...
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    Cowbridge with Llanblethian Dinas Powys Ewenny Llanmaes Llancarfan Llandough Llandow Llanfair Llangan Llantwit Major Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith Penarth...
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  • Nash Manor is a Grade I listed building in Llandow, near Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 16 December...
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  • CF71 COWBRIDGE Cowbridge, St Brides Major, Welsh St Donats, Pendoylan, Llandow, Colwinston, Llanblethian, Penllyn, Llanfair Vale of Glamorgan CF72 PONTYCLUN...
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    the Royal Air Force. No. 1310 (Transport) Flight was first formed at RAF Llandow on 10 April 1944, equipped with Avro Anson I transport aircraft. The flight...
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