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Gwalia Stores

Gwalia Stores is a retail premises originally built at Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, in 1880 and currently located at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales. The stores were a family business, run by William Llewellyn and his family. By 1916 the departments included bakery, ironmongery, grocery, men's outfitters, pharmacy and animal feeds. Some of the stores' employees also lodged on the premises. "Gwalia Stores" was a popular name for grocery stores in Wales during the early 20th century, and other shops with the same or similar names, unconnected to the one at St Fagans, can still be found. The stores closed for business in Ogmore Vale in 1973 and reopened at St Fagans in 1991. Part of the shop is still a retail premises; the rest of the ground floor is set up as it would have been during the 1920s. The first floor contains a tearoom. References External links Media related to Gwalia stores at Wikimedia Commons
Denbigh Cockpit

Denbigh Cockpit is a reconstructed building at St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The cockpit formerly stood in the yard of the Hawk and Buckle Inn at Vale Street, Denbigh, and is thought to date from the late seventeenth century. It is a Grade II listed building. Cockfighting became illegal in Britain in 1849, and the cockpit was used for other purposes over the years, such as a garage. In 1911, it was visited by members of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, and note that it was "preserved with much care". By 1965, it was in a poor state of repair, leading to the decision to relocate it to St Fagans. The cockpit was opened to the public at St Fagans in 1970. References
Kennixton Farmhouse

Kennixton Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse originally built at Kennexstone, Llangennith, Gower, and currently located at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building. The house was built around 1610, and extended over a period. Inside can be seen an example of a box-bed or "cupboard bed" and a sleeping platform over the fireplace, typical of houses in the Gower peninsula at this period. Its exterior walls are painted a bright red; the original pigment included ox blood and lime and may have been intended as a kind of charm against witches. Another theory is that it simply showed that the family were rich enough to be able to afford this type of pigment. The main living room or "kitchen" is an addition, dating from around 1680, as is the wooden staircase and sleeping area above it. The walls of the dining room (originally the only ground-floor room) are painted with a stencilled decoration of a type which pre-dates the general use of wallpaper. This room was used as the interior of Captain Blamey's cottage in the filming of the BBC's 2015 drama series, Poldark. The farmhouse was donated to the museum (then called the Welsh Folk Museum) in 1951 by its then owner, Mr J B Rogers. It was one of the first properties to be rebuilt at the museum, which opened in 1948, and finance for carrying out the work was provided by the profits from the 1951 Festival of Britain. The farm buildings (the barn and calves cotts) that originally stood by the house were not originally, but were added when they were donated to the museum in the early 2000s and relocated to St Fagans. References External links Media related to Kennixton Farmhouse at Wikimedia Commons
Bishop's Palace, Llandaff

The Bishop's Palace (Welsh: Llys yr Esgob) which is also known as Llandaff Castle or Bishop's Castle or the Old Bishop's Palace, is the ruined residence of the bishops of Llandaff. It is located a short distance to the south of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. The twin-towered gatehouse is one of the few remaining structures. History The surviving gatehouse resembles the architecture of Caerphilly Castle, which may indicate that the same master mason worked on both fortifications. This would date the Palace to the time of William de Braose who became Bishop of Llandaff in 1266. It is believed the Palace was attacked and damaged by Owain Glyndŵr in the rebellion of 1402–05, and was subsequently abandoned by the bishop of the period, who moved to live at Mathern Palace in Monmouthshire; bishops did not return to live near their cathedral again until 1850. The Bishops Palace was intact in 1610 when it was shown in a plan by John Speed, but was probably destroyed during the English Civil War. The site The Bishop's Palace was really a small medieval fortress set in a rectangular enclosure measuring 52 by 40 m (170 by 130 ft). It had four irregular lengths of curtain wall, three towers and a gatehouse at the west corner. One of the towers was square and another was round, while the third has disappeared completely. The remains of the gatehouse survive to this day. It has two towers and originally had two storeys above the basement, a vaulted archway, a portcullis slot and a great oak door with much decorative ironwork. There would have been timber buildings within the courtyard, but there is now no sign of these. The Bishop's Palace buildings are Grade I listed, meaning they are of exceptional architectural and historical interest. See also Grade I listed buildings in Cardiff List of castles in Wales Castles in Great Britain and Ireland References External links Media related to Bishop's Palace, Llandaff at Wikimedia Commons
Y Gaer (cultural hub)

Y Gaer (Welsh for 'the fortress') is a municipal structure in Glamorgan Street, Brecon, Powys, Wales. The complex, which includes a museum, an art gallery and a library and incorporates a structure which was once the shire hall for Brecknockshire, is a Grade II* listed building. History The original shire hall building was commissioned by the justices as accommodation for the quarter sessions and for the regular assizes. It was designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1843. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing the corner of Bulwark and Danygaer Road; the central section of three bays featured a full height tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature inscribed with the words "Victoria Regina MDCCCXLII", as well as a frieze with triglyphs and a modillioned pediment. The outer bays contained single-storey blocks with three-light windows. Internally, the principal room was the courtroom. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it became necessary to establish a meeting place for the newly formed Brecknockshire County Council and facilities in the shire hall were identified for this purpose. The shire hall continued to host court hearings until 1971 and to host meetings of the county council until it was abolished in 1974. The county council's main offices were at Watton Mount, a large house directly opposite the shire hall, until 1962 when New County Hall was built immediately behind the shire hall. Following the local government reorganisation in 1974, the New County Hall became an area office for Powys County Council and also served as offices for the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, but the old shire hall was left vacant. The Brecknock Museum, which had been established in an old chapel further to the west along Glamorgan Street in 1928, moved into the vacant shire hall in 1974. Highlights of the collection included a tombstone of a young cavalryman called Candidus, found at Y Gaer, a local Roman fort. After funding had been secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund, a major programme of works to create a new cultural hub for the area was initiated in August 2016. The project involved demolition of the New County Hall and an adjoining Victorian police station and the construction of a modern building on the site, linked to the retained old shire hall. The works, which were carried out by Kier Group at a cost of £14 million, included the refurbishment of the shire hall, the creation of a new art gallery and the construction of a new library building for Brecon Library which relocated from Ship Street. The complex was named Y Gaer to recall the name of the local Roman fort. The works were completed in December 2019. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Powys References External links Media related to Y Gaer (cultural hub) at Wikimedia Commons
Bryn Offa

Bryn Offa (Welsh for 'Offa's Hill') is a local-authority housing estate in the south-western suburbs of the city of Wrexham, in Wrexham County Borough, north-east Wales in the community of Offa, and is close to the Wrexham Maelor Hospital. The main route through Bryn Offa is the A525 road to Ruthin Road. The estate is situated next to Ysgol Clywedog (formerly known as Ysgol Bryn Offa, or Bryn Offa High School), and the Shrewsbury-Chester railway line. The community of Offa is named after Bryn Offa. Originally the site was home to Bryn Offa Hall, which was built in the 1860s and was home to Mayor of Wrexham, John Bernard Murless. The building was later sold various times, before ending up in the ownership of the Royal Air Forces Association in 1956, to serve as their Wrexham clubhouse. The housing estate on the site was first built in the 1950s by Wrexham Borough Council. The first parts to be developed were along the southside of Ruthin Road, between the hall and Bryn Offa School. This first estate replaced a row of houses known as Bryn Offa Terrace, which were demolished as part of the Borough Clearance programme. The housing estate was later extended to Bersham Road in 1957, with the new road built named Centenary Road, to mark Wrexham's 100th anniversary of being incorporated as a borough. Bryn Offa High School began its construction in 1959, and originally was to be named Emyr Cyfeiliog School, after Alderman Emyr Williams. It opened in 1960 with 510 pupils from other local schools. References
Cowbridge Town Hall

Cowbridge Town Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Dref Y Bont-faen) is a public building in the High Street of Cowbridge in South Wales. The town hall, which is the meeting place for Cowbridge with Llanblethian Town Council, and also houses the town clerk's office, the committee rooms and the Cowbridge Museum, is a Grade II* listed building. History The town hall was commissioned to replace an aging guildhall, located in the middle of the High Street, which had previously been the civic meeting place as well as the venue for the Quarter Sessions which travelled around South Wales. Civic leaders found that the guildhall was restricting the movement of traffic in the High Street and decided to find an alternative venue: the site they selected was a building dating back to 1806 which had served as a prison or "House of Correction" but had fallen vacant when correctional activities were consolidated in Swansea. Plans of the House of Correction dating from 1823 show the two-storeyed building flanked by the walls of prisoners' exercise yards, which were incorporated into the new Town Hall to provide additional rooms. In 1824 it was reported that the "Plans and estimate of the expense attending the erection of a new Town Hall ... have been procured by the Revd. John Montgomery Traherne at his own expense". On 15 October 1829 and 22 July 1830 The Court of Common Council for Cowbridge ordered that thanks be given to Isaiah Verity Esq of Ash Hall (son of John Verity of Rooley Hall, Bowling) for "offering ground for the erection of the Town Hall". Verity, in gratitude for planning and directing the new town hall, was awarded the freedom of the borough, after the conversion of the building from a House of Correction to a town hall was completed in 1830. The borough council, which had met in the town hall, was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. The building was restored and enlarged in 1895. Internally, there were two main committee rooms inside the building and a mayor's parlour. In the floor of the parlour, the remains of one of the wells which were located in the exercise yards to provide water for prisoners can still be seen. The design involved a broadly symmetrical frontage with five bays facing the High Street; the central bay featured a gabled doorway on the ground floor flanked by pilasters with a small rounded headed window on the first floor; the bay to the left had a tall round-headed window while the bay to the right had two smaller round-headed windows one above the other; the end bays featured smaller doorways with oculi above; a two-stage clock tower with a cupola was erected at roof level. The clock in the clock tower was donated by Edward Copleston, the Bishop of Llandaff. A war memorial commemorating local people who had died in the First World War was unveiled in front of the town hall in 1921. The building was renovated in 1974. The Cowbridge Museum, which was established in the 1980s, took over six of the eight intact prison cells, to accommodate and display its collection. Notes References External links Media related to Cowbridge Town Hall at Wikimedia Commons
Cylch-y-Garn

Cylch-y-Garn is a community in Anglesey, Wales, located on the north west coast of the county, 9.0 miles (14.5 km) west of Amlwch, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) north east of Holyhead and 15.0 miles (24.1 km) north west of Llangefni. It includes the villages of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Llanrhyddlad and Rhydwyn, plus Llanrhwydrys, Caerau and Cemlyn. the north west tip of the island at Carmel Head, and the offshore islands of the Skerries and West Mouse. At the 2001 census the community had a population of 675, increasing to 758 at the 2011 census. St Mary's Church at Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy is of early medieval origin and has a chancel arch dating from the 11th or 12th century. It is mentioned in the Norwich Taxation of 1254. The chancel was lengthened in the 15th century, and a south chapel added in the 16th. The west tower was added in the 17th century, and the church was restored in 1847, and again in both 1860 and the 1930s. Cadw considers it to be "a fine rural parish church, incorporating significant early medieval fabric", and claims that it is "of special interest, therefore, both for its early origins and for the quality of its later detail," and it is Grade I listed. Saint Rhwydrus's Church, near Cemlyn Bay, was also built in the 12th century, but only the nave survives, although of particular interest is a doorway to the nave dating from that period. It is Grade II* listed, as is Caerau, a late 17th-century house in Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy which contains original panelling. Cemlyn Bay is located in the north east of the community, and is owned by the National Trust. It is the site of a nature reserve managed by the North Wales Wildlife Trust, which includes a lagoon separated from the sea by Esgair Gemlyn, a shingle ridge formed by longshore drift. Islands in the lagoon provide nesting sites for common and Arctic terns, and for one of the United Kingdom's largest breeding populations of Sandwich terns. Offshore, the Skerries lie north west of Carmel Head at the end of a submerged reef which lies directly in the path of shipping traveling between Liverpool and Ireland. In 1714 Queen Anne granted William Trench the right to build a lighthouse on the rocks, and to levy dues on passing ships. The light came into operation in 1717, but ship owners evaded payment, and Trench died in 1729, heavily in debt. The lighthouse was eventually bought by Trinity House in 1841, the last privately owned lighthouse in the British Isles purchased by the organisation. The coal grate was replaced by an oil lamp in 1804, and converted to electric operation in 1927. Since 1987 it has been unmanned, and controlled automatically from Harwich. References External links Media related to Cylch-y-Garn at Wikimedia Commons A Vision of Britain Through Time: Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy A Vision of Britain Through Time: Llanrhyddlad British Listed Buildings Genuki: Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy Genuki: Llanrhyddlad Geograph Office for National Statistics
Cylch-y-Garn

Cylch-y-Garn är en community i Storbritannien. Den ligger på ön Anglesey i kommunen Isle of Anglesey och riksdelen Wales, i den sydvästra delen av landet, 400 km nordväst om huvudstaden London. De tre största byarna i Cylch-y-Garn är Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Llanrhyddlad och Rhydwyn. Källor
Falcondale House

Falcondale House is a Grade II listed former country house, now the Falcondale Mansion Hotel, which is situated some 1 mile north-west of Lampeter, Ceredigion, in south west Wales. History From the 1600s, the Peterswell estate had been owned by the Evans and then the Lloyd families, but due to financial problems and absentee owners the house was left empty and became derelict. The estate was acquired in 1812 by Richard Hart-Davis, who planted several hundred thousand trees and possibly rebuilt the house. His daughter Louisa married John Scandrett Harford, author and art collector, and when Hart-Davis ran into financial difficulties, the estate passed to his son-in-law (and the latter's brother, Abraham Grey Harford-Battersby) in 1819 and subsequently to John Scandrett's nephew, John Battersby Harford. John Battersby commissioned architect Talbot Bury to redesign the house in an Italianate style in 1859 and lived there with his wife Charlotte de Bunsen, the daughter of Baron de Bunsen. On his death in 1875, the property passed to his son John Charles Harford, who, like his father, was appointed High Sheriff of Cardiganshire. He was created a baronet in 1934 but died soon afterwards. His eldest son, John Henry, had been killed at Thiepval during the First World War and so the property passed to his younger son, George Arthur, the second baronet. In 1951, the house was sold to Cardiganshire County Council for use as a retirement home and most of the land disposed of. Around 1975 the building was sold to H. L. Smith to be converted into a hotel. In July 1994, Stafford Beer gave a series of 9 talks at the hotel. They were recorded to provide a video learning resource which are collectively known as the Falcondale Collection. They are available online at the Data Repository of Liverpool John Moores University. Since 2000 it has been owned and run as a hotel by Chris and Lisa Hutton. The coach house The coach house was built in the nineteenth century, probably in 1859, at the time the house was rebuilt. It consists of a yard with a two-storey coach house on one side flanked by single storey wings and is listed as being a fine example of estate buildings of the period. The coach house, North Lodge and Falcondale Home Farm are Grade II listed buildings. References
Hafod Elwy Moor National Nature Reserve

Hafod Elwy Moor National Nature Reserve, located in the moorland above the town of Denbigh in Denbighshire, North Wales, is part of the Mynydd Hiraethog Site of Special Scientific Interest, formerly managed by the Countryside Council for Wales and now under the jurisdiction of Natural Resources Wales. Established in 1999, it comprises an 82-hectare (200-acre) patch of upland moor lying between the lakes of Llyn Brenig and Llyn Alwen. A conifer forest planted by the Forestry Commission borders the moor to the south and east. With plant life dominated by heather and bilberry, the reserve provides important habitat for ground-nesting birds. Birds found in the area include the Northern wheatear, and some black grouse. The reserve is classified as a Category IV site by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, meaning that the area regularly needs active interventions to support particular species. Conservation efforts focus on increasing black grouse populations. In addition to these ground-nesting birds, the reserve is home to merlins and other small birds of prey such as peregrine falcons, kestrels, and hen harriers. The reserve is open to the public, but has no facilities; except for one bridle path, it is difficult to traverse on foot. The nearest roads are the A543 and the B4501, with access via the Brenig Visitor Centre off the B4501. The name "Hafod Elwy" references a hafod, or Welsh summer farmhouse. According to local folktales, captured in a ballad, Hafod Elwy was home to a man named Ffowc Owen in the 1770s, who could not marry his true love and froze to death on the moor. A memorial cairn for Owen is said to be present on the moor. References
Heolddu Comprehensive School

Heolddu Comprehensive School is a school located in the town of Bargoed, South Wales, and serves the town of Bargoed as well as the villages of Deri, Aberbargoed, Tir-Phil, Cascade, Gilfach, New Tredegar and Brithdir in the Caerphilly LEA. The school has 700 pupils and 40 teaching staff. History The building itself was constructed in 1974. Until 2017 the school's motto had been "opportunity for all", it was then changed to “Achieving Excellence Together”. By 1989 the school began having classes in Japanese as a foreign language. Mike Howarth, then the headmaster, had taken Japanese classes. Alumni Hefin David – Member of the Senedd James Fox – Represented the UK in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest. Lauren Price – Ex-footballer and professional kickboxer, competing at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games, Olympic Gold Champion. Tegan Nox – Professional wrestler formerly signed to WWE. David Price – Professional Golfer. Welsh Amateur Champion, Portuguese Amateur Champion and Welsh International, played on the European Tour . Studied at Heolddu and plays at Bargoed Golf Club Nathan Cleverly – European and World champion boxer Kieron Evans – Professional footballer Michael Coggan – Professional Baker and winner of Bake Off: The Professionals References External links [1]
Holland Arms railway station

Holland Arms railway station was situated on the Anglesey Central Railway line from Gaerwen to Amlwch. Located in the village of Pentre Berw it was known as Holland Arms because of the well known hotel of the same name in the village. It also served as the junction of the Red Wharf Bay branch line from 1908 onwards. The original platform was on the Down (west) side of the track and had a wooden building containing a waiting room and ticket office on it. This was replaced by a stone building in 1882. There was also a small goods yard on the down side, just north of the platform. In 1908 to serve the new branch line a second platform with stone building was erected on the Up side (east). When the Red Wharf Bay branch closed to all traffic in 1950, there was little traffic at Holland Arms, and the station closed in 1952, the first on the Anglesey Central line to do so. Only one platform survives and the station building survives too. References Further reading Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2011). Bangor to Holyhead. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 85–87. ISBN 9781908174017. OCLC 795179106.