Senghenydd (Welsh: Senghennydd, IPA: [sɛŋˈhɛnɪð]) is a former mining village in the community of Aber Valley in South Wales, approximately four miles northwest...
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Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Welsh: Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd,...
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Ifor Bach (section Welsh Lord of Senghenydd)
also known as Ifor ap Meurig and in anglicised form Ivor Bach, Lord of Senghenydd, was a twelfth-century resident in and a leader of the Welsh in south...
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Senghenydd Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Senghenydd in South Wales. The club formed during the 1898/99 season built around...
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Senghenydd railway station served the town of Senghenydd, in the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1894 to 1964 on the Senghenydd branch of the...
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accidents in Wales were: 439 deaths at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster at Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, Glamorgan, in a gas explosion in 1913. 290...
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William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr (redirect from William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd)
in 1896, and in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Merthyr, of Senghenydd in the County of Glamorgan. He was Knighted in 1885. He was Knighted as...
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Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden at Senghenydd, Caerphilly, commemorates the 439 men killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster of 1913, the worst mining...
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Rhuddlan Rhyl Rhymney Risca Ruthin St Asaph St Clears St David's Saltney Senghenydd Shotton Swansea Talbot Green Talgarth Tenby Tonypandy Tredegar Tregaron...
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Henry III. At first, de Clare and the Lord of Senghenydd were allied, but in 1266, after the Lord of Senghenydd and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd aligned themselves...
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List of rulers in Wales (section Lords of Senghenydd)
Lordship of Senghenydd, then a vassal of Lordship of Glamorgan. Ifor Bach (c. 1158, Ifor ap Meurig), Lord of Senghenydd Gruffudd, Lord of Senghenydd (d. 1211)...
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fortifications which divided the Norman lordship from the Welsh lordship of Senghenydd. Further up the Cefn Cibwr ridge on the boundary with Caerphilly there...
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Peninsula, in the area. The Welsh cantref in the medieval period was known as Senghenydd. It is said that St Cenydd's son, St Ffili, built a fort in the area,...
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explosions, but the risk was ignored for over 60 years until the 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster. As a respected scientist in a nation with strong maritime...
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Beyond (1960) Born Clifford George Evans (1912-02-17)17 February 1912 Senghenydd, Caerphilly, Wales Died 9 June 1985(1985-06-09) (aged 73) Aberaeron, Ceredigion...
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beneath the main upper bed of sandstone. The linear earthwork known as Senghenydd Dyke stretches across the eastern side of the hill. It is considered to...
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casualties in disasters of pit coalfields, including British, such as the Senghenydd colliery disaster. Such disasters continue to afflict working mines, for...
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Nelson and a similar distance southwest of Ystrad Mynach. To its south is Senghenydd at the head of the Aber Valley. Like neighbouring Cefn Eglwysilan, the...
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Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly. It was in the county...
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Rhymney Railway (section Aber branch (Senghenydd))
Merthyr Vale was singled in 1952. On 1 February 1894 the Aber branch, to Senghenydd, at the head of a steep valley formed by the Nant-yr-aber stream, was...
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Hamstead, Maypole, South Moor, Whitehaven, Little Hulton, Cadeby and Senghenydd. The disasters he investigated caused a loss of 1250 lives in total. In...
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Mitsui Miike, Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan 439 14 October 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster Senghenydd, Wales 437 21 January 1960 Coalbrook mining disaster Coalbrook...
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the confiscated armor of the rebel Llywelyn Bren (of the royal house of Senghenydd in Glamorgan) is recorded to have comprised an aketon, a gambeson, 3 haubergeons...
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Tongwynlais Follows part of the course of the River Taff. B4263 High Street in Senghenydd A469 at Caerphilly Common Passes Caerphilly Castle. B4264 A4222 in Pontyclun...
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secondly, William de Soliers) Mabel FitzRobert: married Gruffud, Lord of Senghenydd, son of Ifor Bach Thomas FitzRobert Robert of Gloucester is a figure in...
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in the historical county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1894 to 1964 on the Senghenydd branch of the Rhymney Railway. The station was opened on 1 February 1894...
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in 1158, he and his wife and son were captured by the Welsh Lord of Senghenydd, Ifor Bach ("Ivor the Little"), and carried away into the woods, where...
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relative of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and in 1316–1318 by Llywelyn Bren, Lord of Senghenydd. In the 1370s, Owain Lawgoch the last representative in the male line...
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history have been caused by coal dust explosions, such as the disaster at Senghenydd in South Wales in 1913 in which 439 miners died, the Courrières mine disaster...
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Powys Wenwynwyn Arwystli Cedewain Cyfeiliog Caereinion Mechain Mochnant Gorfynydd Gwynllwg Gŵyr Penychen Senghenydd Gwrtheyrnion Elfael Maelienydd Buellt...
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