Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

Barry (Y Barri) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately south-southwest of Cardiff. ^[1]

A4050 road

The A4050 road connects Barry, Vale of Glamorgan with Culverhouse Cross on the outskirts of Cardiff, Wales.

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Aberdare railway station

Aberdare railway station (Aberdâr) is a railway station serving the town of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

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Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales (Trenau Arriva Cymru) (ATW) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operates the Wales & Borders franchise.

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Associated British Ports

Associated British Ports Holdings Ltd owns and operates 21 ports in the United Kingdom, managing around 25 per cent of the UK's sea-borne trade.

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Barry (UK Parliament constituency)

Barry was a parliamentary constituency in Glamorgan (later South Glamorgan), Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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Barry 40

The Barry 40 is a 40-mile ultramarathon which takes place annually in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, claiming to be the longest running annual ultramarathon in the UK.

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Barry Castle

Barry Castle (Castell y Barri) is a small Grade II* listed ruined two-storey gatehouse with the adjacent walls of a hall located in the Romilly district of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.

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Barry College

Barry College was a Further Education college in Barry, Wales which merged with Coleg Glan Hafren in September 2011 to form the new Cardiff and Vale College.

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Barry Comprehensive School

Barry Comprehensive School (Ysgol Gyfun y Barri) is a secondary school for boys aged 11–19, situated opposite Highlight Park in the town of Barry, in Wales.

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Barry Docks

The Barry Docks (Dociau'r Barri) are a port facility in the town of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, a few miles southwest of Cardiff on the north shore of the Bristol Channel.

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Barry Docks railway station

Barry Docks Railway Station is one of three railway stations serving the town of Barry, South Wales.

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Barry Island

Barry Island (Ynys y Barri) is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

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Barry Island Pleasure Park

Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales.

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Barry Island railway station

Barry Island railway station is a railway station, 9¼ miles (15 km) south-west of Cardiff Central, serving Barry Island (Ynys y Barri) in South Wales.

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Barry Memorial Hall

The Barry Memorial Hall or Memorial Hall & Theatre, popularly known as The Memo, is a prominent venue in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, currently the "largest multi-arts venue in the Vale of Glamorgan, and only cinema exhibitor in Barry".

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Barry Railway Company

The Barry Railway Company was a railway and docks company in South Wales, first incorporated as the Barry Dock and Railway Company in 1884.

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Barry railway station

Barry railway station (Y Barri) is one of three stations serving the town of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales.

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Barry RFC

Barry Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Barry in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Barry Town Council

Barry Town Council is an elected town council serving Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, one of the largest towns in Wales.

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Barry Town United F.C.

Barry Town United Football Club (Clwb Pêl Droed Tref Y Barri) is an association football team based in Barry.

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Barry Waterfront

Barry Waterfront or Waterfront Barry, known locally as The Waterfront, is a retail park and neighbourhood of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, built from redeveloped land from the old Barry Docks, to the southwest of the town centre and to the immediate west of Barry Dock Offices.

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Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

Barry (Y Barri) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately south-southwest of Cardiff.

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Baruc

Baruc (Barrwg; also known as Barruc, Barrog or Barry) was a 6th-century Welsh saint.

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Baruc (electoral ward)

Baruc is the name of an electoral ward in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Being Human (UK TV series)

Being Human is a British supernatural comedy-drama television series.

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Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.

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Bridgend

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (Pen-y-bont), meaning "the end (or head) of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital Cardiff and east of Swansea.

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Bridgend railway station

Bridgend railway station (Gorsaf Pen-y-bont) is a mainline railway station, serving the town of Bridgend, South Wales.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School

Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School, also referred to as Bryn Hafren School, is located in Merthyr Dyfan on the outskirts of the town of Barry near Cardiff in Wales.

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Butlins

Butlins (also Butlin's) is a chain of large holiday camps in the United Kingdom.

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Buttrills

Buttrills is a northwestern-central district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, in south Wales.

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Cabot Corporation

Cabot Corporation is an American specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Cadoc (electoral ward)

Cadoc is an electoral ward in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Cadoxton railway station

Cadoxton railway station is a railway station serving Cadoxton and Palmerstown near Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

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Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan

Cadoxton (Tregatwg) is a district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Cardiff Airport

Cardiff Airport (Maes Awyr Caerdydd) is the busiest airport in Wales and has been under the ownership of the Welsh Government since March 2013, operating at an arm's length as a commercial business.

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Cardiff Bus

Cardiff Bus Cardiff City Transport Services Limited (Bws Caerdydd) is the dominant operator of bus services in Cardiff, Wales and the surrounding area, including Barry and Penarth.

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Cardiff Central railway station

Cardiff Central railway station (Caerdydd Canolog) is a major railway station on the South Wales Main Line in Cardiff, United Kingdom and one of two hubs of the city's urban rail network.

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Cardiff Queen Street railway station

Cardiff Queen Street railway station (Caerdydd Heol y Frenhines) is a railway station serving the north and east of Central Cardiff, Wales.

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Castle

A castle (from castellum) is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages by predominantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Castleland

Castleland is an electoral ward in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Church in Wales

The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.

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Colcot

Colcot is a northern district of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in the Dyfan ward of South Wales.

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Cold Knap

Cold Knap is a district of Barry in South Wales.

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Coldbrook, Nova Scotia

Coldbrook is a Canadian suburban community in Kings County, Nova Scotia.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Culverhouse Cross

Culverhouse Cross (Croes Cwrlwys) is a district straddling the boundary between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Cwm Talwg

Cwm Talwg is a north-western district and large housing estate complex within the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan ten miles outside Cardiff in south Wales.

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Cyril Lakin

Cyril Harry Alfred Lakin (29 December 1893 – 23 June 1948) was a Welsh politician and farmer who was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Llandaff and Barry in South Wales.

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Dai Woodham

Dai Woodham, MBE, BEM (5 September 1919 - 12 September 1994), born David Lloyd Victor Woodham, is remembered by many steam railway enthusiasts as the man who saved over 200 former British Railways steam locomotives from the scrap heap.

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David Davies (swimmer)

David Michael Rhys Davies (born 3 March 1985) is a Welsh former competitive swimmer who has represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games, and swam for Great Britain at Summer Olympics, world championships and European championships, winning medals in each of those major international championships.

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De Barry family

The de Barry family is a noble family of Cambro-Norman origins which held extensive land holdings in Wales and Ireland.

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Delta and the Bannermen

Delta and the Bannermen is the third serial of the 24th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from 2 November to 16 November 1987.

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Dinas Powys

Dinas Powys (also spelt 'Dinas Powis' in English) is a large village and a community in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales which takes its name from the Dinas Powys hillfort that dates from the Iron Age.

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Dinas Powys railway station

Dinas Powys railway station is one of two railway stations serving the village of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

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Dock (maritime)

A dock (from Dutch dok) is the area of water between or next to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore) or such structures themselves.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dorothy Rees

Dame Dorothy Mary Rees (née Jones) DBE (29 July 1898 – 20 August 1987) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and was briefly a Member of Parliament (MP).

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Dow Corning

Dow Corning was an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States.

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Dry stone

Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.

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East Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Glamorganshire was a parliamentary constituency in Glamorganshire, Wales.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Flat Holm

Flat Holm (Ynys Echni) is a limestone island lying in the Bristol Channel approximately from Lavernock Point in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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Gavin & Stacey

Gavin & Stacey is a British sitcom, written by James Corden and Ruth Jones, that follows the long-distance relationship of an Englishman and a Welsh woman.

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Gerald of Wales

Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Gymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon and historian.

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Gibbonsdown

Gibbonsdown, colloquially known as 'Gibby', is an area (and electoral ward) situated in the north east of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Gladstone, Vale of Glamorgan

Gladstone is a central district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan outside Cardiff in south Wales.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Glamorgan Archives

The Glamorgan Archives (previously the Glamorgan Record Office) is a county record office and repository based in Leckwith, Cardiff, Wales.

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Grangetown railway station

Grangetown railway station is a railway station serving the Grangetown district of Cardiff, Wales.

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Green roof

A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.

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Hearth tax

A hearth tax was a property tax in certain countries during the medieval and early modern period, levied on each hearth, thus by proxy on each family unit.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Holton, Vale of Glamorgan

Holton is a central district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan 9 miles outside Cardiff in south Wales.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Jane Hutt

Jane Hutt AM (born 15 December 1949) is a Welsh Labour politician and former Minister in the Welsh Government.

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Jenner Park

Jenner Park is a central district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan 14 miles outside Cardiff in South Wales.

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Jewson

Jewson is one of the largest chains of British general builders' merchants, selling to small and medium building contractors, as well as to the general public.

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John Romilly Allen

John Romilly Allen FSA FSA (Scot.) (9 June 1847 – 5 July 1907) was a British archaeologist.

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John Smith (Welsh politician)

John William Patrick Smith (born 17 March 1951) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan from the 1989 by-election to 1992 and from 1997 to the 2010 general elections.

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Keele University

Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university located about 3 miles (5 km) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.

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King's Square, Barry

King's Square is a town square in central Barry, Wales located at a central shopping point of Holton Road.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542

The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 (Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542) were parliamentary measures by which Wales became a full and equal part of the Kingdom of England and the legal system of England was extended to Wales and the norms of English administration introduced.

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List of bus stations in Wales

This is a list of bus stations in Wales.

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List of localities in Wales by population

This is a list of localities in Wales by population according to the 2016 estimate data, by the Office for National Statistics Major urban areas are sub-divided to provide results about localities within them.

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List of shipwrecks in the Bristol Channel

A number of ships have run aground or sunk in the Bristol Channel,For the purposes of this article, the Bristol Channel is defined as downstream of the Severn Bridge to Hartland Point and St Govan's Head.

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Llandaff and Barry (UK Parliament constituency)

Llandaff and Barry was a county constituency centred on the towns of Llandaff and Barry in Wales.

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Llandough

Llandough (Llandochau) is a village located south of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Llantwit Major

Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr) is a small coastal town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the Bristol Channel coast.

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Llantwit Major railway station

Llantwit Major railway station is a railway station serving the small town of Llantwit Major, South Wales.

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Lord

Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others acting like a master, a chief, or a ruler.

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Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

Sir Arwyn Lynn Ungoed-Thomas (29 June 1904 – 4 December 1972) was a Welsh Labour Party politician and British judge.

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M4 motorway

The M4 is a motorway which runs between London and South Wales in the United Kingdom.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Manorialism

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.

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Merthyr Dyfan

Merthyr Dyfan or Dyfan is a northeastern suburb of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, in south Wales, formerly an independent medieval village.

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Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.

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Merthyr Tydfil railway station

Merthyr Tydfil railway station is a railway station serving the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.

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Mesolithic

In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Microlith

A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide.

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Mid Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Glamorganshire was a county constituency in Glamorganshire, Wales.

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Municipal borough

Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.

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National Assembly for Wales

The National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru; commonly known as the Welsh Assembly) is a devolved parliament with power to make legislation in Wales.

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National Eisteddfod of Wales

The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Owain Glyndŵr

Owain Glyndŵr (c. 1359 – c. 1415), or Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) but to many, viewed as an unofficial king.

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Palmerstown, Vale of Glamorgan

Palmerstown is a south-eastern suburb of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan south-west of Dinas Powys and 7 miles south-west of Cardiff in Wales.

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Penarth

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan (Bro Morgannwg), Wales, approximately southwest of Cardiff city centre on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.

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Pencoedtre

Pencoedtre or Pencoetre, also known as Pencoedtre Village, is a northeastern suburb of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Peninsula

A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.

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Penmark

Penmark (Pen-marc) is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales.

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Pontypridd railway station

Pontypridd railway station serves the town of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

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Porthkerry

The hamlet of Porthkerry (Welsh: Porthceri) lies on the Bristol Channel coast of South Wales within the community of Rhoose between that village and the town of Barry to the east.

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Porthkerry Park

Porthkerry Park is a large, public country park on the coast between Barry and Porthkerry in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.

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Raymond Gower

Sir Herbert Raymond Gower (15 August 1916 – 22 February 1989) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for 38 years.

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Representation of the People Act 1918

The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Representation of the People Act 1948

The Representation of the People Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the law relating to parliamentary and local elections.

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Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Rhoose and Cardiff Airport in southeast Wales.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Roman villa

A Roman villa was a country house built for the upper class in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, similar in form to the hacienda estates in the colonies of the Spanish Empire.

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Romilly, Vale of Glamorgan

Romilly is a western district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island, is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.

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Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas (Ἅγιος Νικόλαος,, Sanctus Nicolaus; 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also called Nikolaos of Myra or Nicholas of Bari, was Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor (modern-day Demre, Turkey), and is a historic Christian saint.

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Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort town or resort hotel, located on the coast.

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South Glamorgan

South Glamorgan (De Morgannwg) is a preserved county of Wales.

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South Glamorgan County Council

South Glamorgan County Council (Cyngor Sir De Morgannwg) was the local government authority that administered the county of South Glamorgan, Wales from 1974 till 1996.

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South Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Glamorganshire was a parliamentary constituency in Glamorganshire, Wales.

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South Wales Central (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

South Wales Central is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies.

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South Wales Valleys

The South Wales Valleys (Cymoedd De Cymru) are a group of industrialised valleys in South Wales.

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St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Barry

St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic comprehensive secondary school situated in Barry, Wales, Vale of Glamorgan.

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St. Andrews Major

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Steep Holm

Steep Holm (Ynys Rhonech, Old English: Ronech and later Steopanreolice) is an English island lying in the Bristol Channel.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Submarine (2010 film)

Submarine is a 2010 British-American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins.

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Sully Island

Sully Island (Welsh: Ynys Sili) is a small tidal island and Site of Special Scientific Interest at the hamlet of Swanbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, 400 yards off the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

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Sully, Vale of Glamorgan

Sully (Sili) is a village in the community of Sully and Lavernock, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales lying on the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 7 miles (11.3 kilometres) southwest of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Thatching

Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm fronds, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.

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The Bendricks

The Bendricks is a stretch of coastline and an important paleontological site in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales located along the northern coast of the Bristol Channel between Barry and Sully at.

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The Bulwarks, Porthkerry

The Bulwarks, Porthkerry is a promontory fort in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, on the southern coast of Wales overlooking the Bristol Channel.

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The Christmas Invasion

"The Christmas Invasion" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2005.

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The Doctor Dances

"The Doctor Dances" is the tenth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 28 May 2005.

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The Empty Child

"The Empty Child" is the ninth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 21 May 2005.

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Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional steam locomotive in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher.

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Tiger Bay

Cardiff Docks --> Tiger Bay (Bae Teigr) was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks.

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Town council

A town council, village council or rural council is a form of local government for small municipalities.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Umfraville

The Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England, where they held the strategic lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland, and also acquired lands and honours in Scotland.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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United Kingdom general election, 1918

The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday 14 December 1918.

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United Kingdom general election, 1929

The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 30 May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament.

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United Kingdom general election, 1945

The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.

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United Kingdom general election, 1950

The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first ever general election to be held after a full term of Labour government.

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United Kingdom general election, 1951

The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held twenty months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats.

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United Kingdom general election, 1983

The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983.

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United Kingdom general election, 1992

The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1997

The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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Urban rail in the United Kingdom

Urban rail, commuter rail, regional rail, or suburban rail plays a key role in public transport in many of the United Kingdom's major cities.

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Vale of Glamorgan

The Vale of Glamorgan, often referred to as The Vale, (Bro Morgannwg) is a county borough in Wales, bordering Bridgend, Cardiff, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

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Vale of Glamorgan (Assembly constituency)

Vale of Glamorgan is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Vale of Glamorgan (UK Parliament constituency)

Vale of Glamorgan (Welsh: Bro Morgannwg) is a county constituency in South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Vale of Glamorgan Council

The Vale of Glamorgan Council is the governing body for the Vale of Glamorgan, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.

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Vale of Glamorgan Railway

The Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company was built to provide access to Barry Docks from collieries in the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore areas.

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Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes

Valleys & Cardiff Local Routes (Llwybrau Lleol y Cymoedd a Chaerdydd) (formerly Valley Lines) is the busy network of passenger suburban railway services radiating from Cardiff, Wales.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Walter Sweeney

Walter Edward Sweeney (born 23 April 1949) is a British Conservative politician.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Welsh medium education

Education delivered through the medium of the Welsh language is known as Welsh medium education.

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Wenvoe

Wenvoe (Gwenfô) is a Welsh village and community between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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William Cope, 1st Baron Cope

William Cope, 1st Baron Cope (18 August 1870 – 15 July 1946), known as Sir William Cope, Bt, between 1928 and 1945, was a Welsh Conservative Party politician, who was also notable as an international rugby union player for Wales.

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Woodham Brothers

Woodham Brothers Ltd is a trading business, based mainly around activities and premises located within Barry Docks, in Barry, South Wales.

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Wrecking yard

A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.

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Wrexham

Wrexham (Wrecsam) is the largest town in the north of Wales and an administrative, commercial, retail and educational centre.

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Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg

Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg is a Welsh medium comprehensive school in the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, on the coast of south Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry,_Vale_of_Glamorgan

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