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Beacon
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.
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Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire
Bethlehem is a tiny farming village in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying in the Tywi Valley northeast of Llandeilo and southwest of Llangadog but on the opposite side of the river from the busy London to Haverfordwest road, the A40.
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Black Mountain (range)
The Black Mountain (Y Mynydd Du) is a mountain range in South and West Wales, straddling the county boundary between Carmarthenshire and Brecknockshire (the latter currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys) and forming the westernmost range of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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Black Mountains, Wales
The Black Mountains (Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.
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Brecon
Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, with a population in 2001 of 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.
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Brecon Beacons National Park
The Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) is one of three national parks in Wales, and is centred on the Brecon Beacons range of hills in southern Wales.
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Brecon Castle
Brecon Castle (Castell Aberhonddu) is a castle in the town of Brecon, Wales.
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Brecon Mountain Railway
The Brecon Mountain Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Mynydd Brycheiniog) is a narrow gauge tourist railway on the south side of the Brecon Beacons.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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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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Bwlch y Ddwyallt
Bwlch y Ddwyallt is the name commonly applied to the high point of the plateau of Gwaun Cerrig Llwydion in the eastern part of the Brecon Beacons in south Wales.
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Carreg Cennen Castle
Carreg Cennen Castle (Welsh: Castell Carreg Cennen meaning castle (on the) rock (above the) Cennen) is a castle near the River Cennen, in the village of Trap, four miles south of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Cicerone (publisher)
Cicerone is an English publisher specialising in guidebooks for walkers, climbers, trekkers and cyclists.
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Cirque
Two cirques with semi-permanent snowpatches near Abisko National Park, Sweden A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.
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Cist
A cist (or; also kist; from κίστη or Germanic Kiste) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.
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Corn Du
Corn Du is a mountain immediately to the southwest of Pen y Fan and the second highest peak in South Wales at 873 m (2,864 ft), situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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Cribyn (mountain)
Cribyn is a mountain in the Brecon Beacons with an elevation of 2608 feet (or 795 metres) about 300 feet lower than the neighbouring peaks of Pen y Fan and Corn Du.
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Droving
Droving is the practice of moving livestock over long distances by walking them "on the hoof".
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Fan Brycheiniog
Fan Brycheiniog is the highest peak at 2633 feet (just over 800 m) in the Black Mountain (Y Mynydd Du) region of the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Wales.
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Fan y Big
Fan y Big (or Fanny Bîg, is a subsidiary summit of Waun Rydd in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in southern Powys, Wales. It is high and is often hiked as part of the Horseshoe Walk, a traverse of the four main peaks in the Brecon Beacons.
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Filipendula ulmaria
Filipendula ulmaria, commonly known as meadowsweet or mead wort, is a perennial herb in the family Rosaceae that grows in damp meadows.
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Goose
Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae.
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Heat stroke
Heat stroke, also known as sun stroke, is a type of severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than and confusion.
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Hillforts in Britain
Hillforts in Britain refers to the various hillforts within the island of Great Britain.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Infantry Battle School
The Infantry Battle School, Brecon is a British Army training establishment at Dering Lines in Brecon, 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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Mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground.
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Mountain rescue
Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments.
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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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Old Red Sandstone
The Old Red Sandstone is an assemblage of rocks in the North Atlantic region largely of Devonian age.
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Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro) is a national park along the Pembrokeshire coast in west Wales.
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Pen y Fan
Pen y Fan is the highest peak in south Wales, situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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RAF Valley
Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley (Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali) is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport.
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Reservist
A reservist is a person who is a member of a military reserve force.
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Ridge
A ridge or mountain ridge are geological features consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance.The sides of the ridge slope away from narrow top on either side.The line along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, is called the ridgeline.
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Round barrow
A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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Snowdonia
Snowdonia (Eryri) is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of in area.
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South Wales
South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.
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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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Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.
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Ulex
Ulex (commonly known as gorse, furze or whin) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.
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Waun Rydd
Waun Rydd is a mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in southern Powys, Wales.
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Y Gaer
Y Gaer is a Roman fort situated near modern-day Brecon in Mid Wales, United Kingdom.
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Y Garn Goch
Y Garn Goch is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) in the east of Carmarthenshire, Wales.
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Bannau Brycheiniog, Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecon_Beacons
