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Hipódromo de Bangor-on-Dee

El Hipódromo de Bangor-on-Dee​ (en inglés: Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse) es un lugar de celebración de carreras de caballos pura sangre situado en Bangor-on-Dee cerca de Wrexham, Gales, Reino Unido. Se trata de una pista de carreras National, y no tiene tribunas. El primer evento que se llevó a cabo en el Hipódromo de Bangor On Dee data de febrero de 1859, y ha habido carreras desde entonces regularmente, excepto durante las guerras. Desde 2006 el espacio también ha sido sede de las carreras de aficionados Point-to-Point dirigidos por personal local. Véase también Hípica Instalación deportiva Hipódromo Referencias
Barafundle Bay

Barafundle Bay (Welsh: Bae Barafundle) is a remote, slightly curved, east-facing sandy beach, near Stackpole Quay in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in Stackpole and Castlemartin Community. It is part of the Stackpole Estate, managed by The National Trust. The beach was once owned by the Cawdor family of Stackpole Court. On the northern approach to the beach are steps and a wall, which were built by the owners to ease their access to what was then their private beach. Location and access There is no road access to the beach. The nearest car park is at Stackpole Quay, costing seven pounds per day between March and October and free to park after 5:30 p.m. Access to the beach is via the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, either from Stackpole Quay or from Broad Haven South. The walk from Stackpole Quay is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from Broad Haven South. Both approaches are unsuitable for pushchairs or wheelchairs because of the uneven terrain and sand. Geology Barafundle Bay is set between cliffs to the north and south. It marks the end of the Carboniferous Limestone cliffs of the Castlemartin Peninsula to the southwest and the beginning of the Old Red Sandstone of the Devonian period at Stackpole Quay to the northeast. Awards In 2004 Barafundle Bay was included in a list of the Top 12 beaches in the world. The Good Holiday Guide also called it "the best beach in Britain". In 2006 the magazine Country Life called it the best place in the United Kingdom for a picnic. In 2019 it received both the Seaside and the Green Coast awards in the Wales Coast Awards. In popular culture In 1997, Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci named their fourth album, Barafundle after the bay. Barafundle Bay was the location for some scenes in the film Third Star, shot in October 2009. References External links Stackpole information - National Trust website
Barry Council Office and Library

Barry Council Office and Library (Welsh: Swyddfa a Llyfrgell y Cyngor Barri) is a local government building and public library located in King Square, Barry, Wales. The building, which was once the meeting place of Barry Municipal Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The first lending library in Barry was opened in 1890, at 144 Holton Road. It later moved to a three-storey house on the Square, with the ground floor used as a reading room, the lending library on the second floor and caretaker's rooms on the top floor. Following the formation of Barry Urban District Council in 1895, civic leaders decided that this arrangement was inadequate and chose to procure a purpose-built combined council office and public library complex. The site they selected was the old Maes-y-cwm Quarry, which had been excavated in 1900. In 1903 the council applied to the Andrew Carnegie Trust for a grant to establish a purpose-built public library. The trust awarded a grant of £8,000. Following a design competition, Charles E. Hutchinson and E. Harding Payne of London were selected to design the building in the Edwardian Baroque style. After the first stage of construction, the public library was officially opened by the Earl of Plymouth on 1 March 1906. Following a second stage of construction, the council office was officially opened by the chairman of the council, Mr W. J. Williams, on 22 April 1908. A further expansion to the rear of the new building was planned but never executed. Architecture The design involved a broadly symmetrical frontage with fifteen bays facing King Square. The central section featured a round-headed window on the ground floor and a clock tower above. The left hand section, comprising the council office, featured a round-headed doorway on the ground floor flanked by paired full height Ionic order columns, a Venetian window on the first floor and an open segmental pediment containing a cartouche flanked by female figures above. The right hand section, comprising the public library, featured a round-headed doorway on the ground floor flanked by full height paired Ionic order pilasters, a square window flanked by two narrow windows on the first floor, four small square windows on the attic floor and a pediment above. Usage The council office was established as the meeting place of Barry Urban District Council and, from 1939, of Barry Municipal Borough Council. It briefly continued to be the local seat of government after Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council was formed in 1974. The council then moved to new civic offices in Holton Road in 1981. After the public library moved to temporary facilities at the town's leisure centre in 2001, a major refurbishment of the whole complex was carried out. The work, which included a new wing for the public library, was completed in time for an official opening by the Mayor of the Vale of Glamorgan, Nic Hodges, on 4 January 2007. The refurbishment of the complex cost £371,000, £124,000 more than had been budgeted, leading to requests for an inquiry in February 2008. References
Barry Dock Offices

Barry Docks Offices is a council building in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south-east Wales. It is prominently sited, overlooking the docks to the south, below the town and on a level site near Castleland Point, a promontory within Dock View Road. Barry Docks railway station is adjacent to the building and to its rear. History and architecture The offices were constructed between 1897 and 1900 and bear the date 1898. The development was part of the industrialist David Davies's scheme for Barry Docks and was intended to regulate the substantial coal exporting trade which had grown to world prominence in the town. The building cost £59,000. and is constructed of red brick with Portland stone dressing. The architect was Arthur E. Bell who was the son of the resident engineer of the Barry Dock and Railway Company. The building is in Baroque revival style, based on the work of Sir Christopher Wren. The building is a massive block, eleven bays by seven, with giant pilasters of the composite order above the ground floor, slightly projecting their bay centre, with a triangular pediment above on paired pilasters. The central tower consists of a clock tower with a cupola above. The design of the central doorway in a concave surround, imitates Wren's design for St Mary-le-Bow. The Dock Offices were badly damaged by fire in 1984 but were later restored by Associated British Ports and now house the part of Vale of Glamorgan Council dealing with building construction and new civil engineering projects. The statue of David Davies, the man responsible for the building of the docks, stands in front of the offices. It is a Grade II* listed building. Gallery References Further reading Moore, D, (Ed), Barry, The Centenary Book, Barry, 1984, pp 342–344; Keane M, A Monument to Past Glories, Barry, 1994.It Newman, John (2001), The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan, Penguin Books.
Barry Hospital

Barry Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Cymunedol Y Barri) is a hospital on Colcot Road in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is managed by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. History The hospital has its origins in the accident ward established by the local Nursing Association in a property in Kingsland Crescent in March 1895. A purpose built hospital was opened in Wyndham Street in December 1908. It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became Barry Community Hospital in 1973. The current hospital, which replaced the Barry Community Hospital in Wyndham Street, was completed in 1995. The hospital's minor injury unit reopened after a £240,000 upgrade in May 2015. References External links Official website Healthcare Inspectorate Wales inspection reports
Barry Power Station

Barry Power Station was a 230 MWe gas-fired power station on Sully Moors Road in Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It was eight miles west of Cardiff and was situated next to a large Ineos Vinyls chemicals works that makes PVC and a Hexion Chemicals plant. History Construction began in January 1997 and it was opened on 7 September 1998, being owned by the AES Corporation but trading as AES Barry Ltd. Until 2000 it ran as a base load station. It was bought by Centrica on 24 July 2003 for £39.7m. AES sold the plant because of the low price of electricity at that time. The closure of the plant was proposed in Centrica's accounts in February 2012, but the following month a contract was signed to use it to supply peak power. This required a reconfiguration to allow full load to be reached more quickly, and redundancy for a third of the workforce. It was then run in an open-cycle mode, halving operating costs, with the option of switching to combined-cycle mode after an hour. The plant ceased generation on 31 March 2019 and closed on 10 May 2019 with demolition proposed to commence in summer 2019. It was observed that demolition was well underway by July 2019 and by September 2019, the grey steel chimney had been removed, thus a previously well-defined landmark had disappeared. Specification It was a CCGT-type power station. There was one 160 MWe Siemens V94.2 gas turbine (built by Ansaldo Energia in Genoa and now called the SGT5-2000E) that fed exhaust gas at 544 °C to a heat recovery steam generator. Steam from this entered a 75 MWe steam turbine running, like the gas turbine, at 3000 rpm. Exhaust steam was passed through an air-cooled condenser and returned to the system as de-aerated feedwater for the HRSG. It connected to the Western Power Distribution section of the National Grid via a substation at 132 kV. The generator on the gas turbine was rated at 180 MVA and had a terminal voltage of 15 kV; the steam turbine's was 11 kV. The plant was 44% thermally efficient. The chimney was 60 m high. References External links Centrica Energy Centrica buys the power station
Beaumaris Gaol

Beaumaris Gaol (Welsh: Carchar Biwmares) is a disused gaol, or prison, located in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales. Although no longer in use it remains largely unaltered and is now a museum open to visitors, with around 30,000 visiting each year. History The jail was designed by Hansom and Welch, and was built in 1829. It was expanded in 1867 to accommodate approximately 30 inmates but was closed just 11 years later. The building then became a police station until the 1950s when it became a children's clinic and lastly a museum in 1974. During the Second World War the town's air raid siren was located in the gaol and was kept in operation during the Cold War in case of nuclear attacks. The gaol's chapel is not original to the building, and the pews and pulpit were sourced from a chapel being renovated elsewhere on the island; the numbering of the pews is out of sequence and they are not fixed to the floor. The prison regime may appear brutal to a modern visitor, but in its day it was seen as humane improvement on earlier gaols. Even so, methods of keeping criminals in check included chains, whippings and isolation in a dark cell for up to three days. It has one of the last working penal treadmills in Britain. The treadmill at Beaumaris is unusual in that it pumped water to the top of the building for use in the cells, meaning that the prisoners were not forced to work for no reason. Executions Two hangings took place at Beaumaris. The first was that of William Griffith, in 1830, for the attempted murder of his first wife. On the morning of his execution he barricaded himself inside the cell. The door was eventually forced open and he was half dragged and half carried to the gallows. The second execution was that of Richard Rowlands in 1862, for murdering his father-in-law. He protested his innocence right up to the final moment and legend has it that he cursed the church clock from the gallows, saying that if he were innocent the four faces of the nearby church clock would never show the same time. Both men were buried within the walls of the gaol in a lime pit, but the exact location of their burial is unknown. The iron pins which held the gallows in place, along with the two doors which the condemned man passed through, can still be seen from the street outside the gaol walls. Escape The only prisoner to escape from the gaol was John Morris, who escaped on 7 January 1859, using rope he had stolen whilst working with it. He broke his leg while escaping, but made it out of the town, before being recaptured. Listing designations The gaol is a Grade I listed building and its perimeter walls have a separate Grade I listing. References External links Beaumaris Gaol - Visiting information from the Isle of Anglesey County Council
Bedwellty House

Bedwellty House is a Grade II-listed house and gardens in Tredegar, in the Sirhowy Valley in south-east Wales. It was built in the early 19th century on the site of an earlier building and subsequently enlarged into its present form by mid-century. The owners donated the house and its grounds to the public at the beginning of the 20th century. They were restored at the beginning of the 21st century. The grounds are included on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, the only estate so listed in Blaenau Gwent. History Plas Bedwellty was a small house owned by the Morgans of Tredegar House and was purchased by the ironmaster Samuel Homfray in 1800. He rebuilt it in 1825 and his son enlarged the house with the two rear wings by 1842. The Morgans reacquired the building by mid-century and reserved for the use of the manager of the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company. The Morgan family gave the house and its grounds to the local community in 1901 and it was remodelled as offices for the Urban District Council. Bedwellty House and its grounds were restored 2006–11 by the Heritage Lottery Fund and other agencies. The house is a Grade II listed building. The surrounding 26-acre (110,000 m2) Victorian garden and park, designed originally as a Dutch garden around which one could walk or ride without being confronted by gate, fence or outside features; contains the Long Shelter, a Grade II-listed structure built for the Chartist movement. Visitors today can also see the Edwardian bandstand, gazebo, duck ponds, and a world-famous lump of coal – a single 15-ton block hewn by South Wales coal miners for the Great Exhibition in 1851. In 2022 Cadw listed the park at Grade II on its Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. See also List of gardens in Wales References External links Bedwellty House at Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council
Beechwood Park, Newport

Beechwood Park is a thirty-acre public park situated in the eastern Beechwood area of the city of Newport, South Wales. The park is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. History Beechwood House was built in 1877–1878 as a private residence by George Fothergill, a former Mayor of Newport. It was designed in a classical style using Bath stone, by architects Habershon, Pite & Fawckner. In 1900 the Beechwood estate was purchased by Newport Corporation and opened as a public park. During World War II the park was used by US military personnel stationed in the city, and it was later used as a tuberculosis clinic, model railway club, and open air school. Community The park is protected by a group of local volunteers in the Beechwood Park Group, founded in 2014 with the purpose of organising events for local people and improving the facilities available to visitors, including raising £1,850 for new parasols for outdoor seating. The park's historical heritage is also protected by the Friends of Newport's Ornamental Parks, established in 2006 to improve the management of Victorian-era parks in the city. Facilities Current facilities include two children's play areas, a paddling pool (summer only), a bowling green, a pavilion, and two tennis courts. In 2013 a café was opened and named Mrs T's. It is open between 9.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. The café was extended in 2018 and owner Jayne Thorley has described the new space as suited for afternoon tea, Sunday lunches and special events. In 2019 the park hosted a weekend of free musical entertainment organised by the Beechwood Parks Events Group in conjunction with Newport City Radio with a range of musical guests, a raffle, food from The Café, and more. Renovation In 2006, work began on the renovation and conversion of Beechwood House to become the Beechwood House Entrepreneurship Centre. Newport City Council secured a total of £4.2million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Welsh Government Local Regeneration Fund, along with further retrospective ERDF funds, for the project. The Centre opened in March 2009. Awards Beechwood is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. It has held a Green Flag award from Keep Wales Tidy since 2007. References External links Newport City Council Countryside & Parks The Café at Beechwood Beechwood Park Group BPG Friends of Newport Ornamental Parks
Bellevue Park, Wrexham

Bellevue Park (Welsh: Parc Bellevue), historically known as the Parciau, is an Edwardian park located in the city of Wrexham in northeastern Wales. Built to commemorate the jubilee year of the incorporation of the town, it is best known for the natural amphitheatre in its southeastern area, which holds regular concerts and live music performances during the summer months. Geography The park is located in the centre of Wrexham. It is bordered by Bradley Road on the west, Ruthin Road on the south, Tenters Square on the east/northeast and Bellevue Road on the northwest. Regeneration During the 1970s Bellevue Park was neglected and many of the amenities were in a poor state of repair. A major project was undertaken to refurbish the park back to its original splendour. This was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Urban Parks Project, Welsh Development Agency, and the European Regional Development Fund. The park reopened in June 2000. It now boasts children's play areas, a bowling green which is home to the Parciau Bowling Club, tennis and basketball courts, an original Edwardian bandstand set in an amphitheatre, and a jogging route for walkers and joggers. The park itself has many walkways through mature tree-lined avenues as well as affording some magnificent views of the parish church. The park is well lit and has a number of CCTV cameras installed to deter antisocial behaviour. Bellevue Park has once again regained its popularity with the people of Wrexham. Throughout the summer months, a broad spectrum of social events take place, such as music concerts for all tastes and "fun days" for children. History In the late 19th century requirements for a park were identified, although it was not until 1906 that the location of "The Parciau" was finally secured as an add-on to the existing Ruabon Road cemetery site. It was designed to commemorate the Jubilee Year of the incorporation of Wrexham. The Parciau was developed from 1910, with the entrance gates and lodge being provided by public subscriptions. The statue of Queen Victoria was originally placed in 1905 by the Guildhall and moved in the 1920s to a location in the Parciau next to the pavilion. The pavilion was converted in the 1970s to provide a community centre. During the Second World War, the Parciau was turned over for the production of food to supply school canteens. The bandstand which is built in its own natural amphitheatre was often used for Sunday brass concerts, but by the late 1960s it had become disused and unsafe and was nearly demolished: however, it was refurbished in 1973. In 2015 Belle Vue Park was dedicated as a Fields in Trust Centenary Field because of its links with veterans of two world wars. From 2016 to 2023, a local football club was named after and based at the park until it moved to a nearby sports field. Founded in 2016, it was inclusion-focused and competed in the North East Wales Football League in 2017. In July 2024, the park was awarded the Green Flag Award. References External links
Llyn Fanod

Llyn Fanod és un llac situat en un altiplà entre Penuwch i Bontnewydd, a Ceredigion, a l'oest de Gal·les. És un lloc d'especial interès científic, que pertany parcialment al Centre de Protecció de la Fauna i Flora de l'Oest de Gal·les. S'hi pot accedir públicament a través d'un pont. El llac està situat a les aigües més elevades del riu Aeron, que a causa de les seves aigües amb pocs nutrients acullen un gran nombre de plantes aqüíferes locals bastant poc corrents. S'hi pot observar el curs de l'aigua, el pas d'ocells marítims, i libèl·lules a l'estiu. Referències
Llyn Fanod

Llyn Fanod is an upland lake situated between Penuwch and Bontnewydd in Ceredigion, Wales. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, partly owned by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. Public access is via a bridlepath from the road. It is a mesotrophic lake located in the headwaters of the River Aeron, whose low nutrient waters are home to a number of locally rare water plants. Waterfowl and passing sea birds can be seen on the lake as can dragonflies, damselflies, and caddis flies in the summer. The lake has a surface area of 5.3 hectares (13 acres) and a maximum depth of 8.3 m (27 ft). It lies in a hollow probably scoured out glacially, and is dammed by a moraine. Palynological studies show that it has developed since the last ice age and is a remnant of a larger lake, Llyn Farch, which has otherwise dried up. It is surrounded by pasture grazed by cattle and sheep and at the southern end is a small peat mire. There are tussocks of purple moor-grass and tall cushions of common hair moss and Sphagnum recurvum. In the old peat cuttings, marsh cinquefoil, bog asphodel, bogbean, beaked sedge and Sphagnum species grow. In the open water at the southern end, yellow water lilies and European white water lilies float on the surface, and at the northern end can be found water lobelia, lake quillwort, Littorella uniflora and a few plants of water awlwort, all uncommon species in this area. In the sometimes boggy rough grassland surrounding the lake are also common spike-rush, water horsetail, sharp-flowered rush and soft rush, marsh willowherb, marsh-bedstraw, floating sweet-grass, bogbean and lesser spearwort. References External links Geograph photos of Llyn Fanod and surrounding area
Big Pit National Coal Museum

Big Pit National Coal Museum (walisisk: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) er et industrimuseum i Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. Det er indrettet i en tidligere kulmine, der var i funktion fra 1880 ttil 1980, og åbnede for offentligheden i 1983. Det er en del af museumssammenslutningen National Museum of Wales. Stedet er dedikeret til at bevare og formidle den walisiske tradition med kuludvinding, som foregik under den industrielle revolution. Det ligger ved siden af Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway og sammen med Big Pit er det en del af Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, der er et UNESCO's Verdensarvsliste, og det er Anchor Point i European Route of Industrial Heritage. Referencer Eksterne henvisninger Officiel hjemmeside