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Lampeter (Llanbedr Pont Steffan or, more informally, Llambed) is a town in Ceredigion, South West Wales, lying at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas. [1]

75 relations: Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Association football, Beeching cuts, Blacksmith, Borough, Bowls, Bronwydd Arms railway station, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Carmarthen, Carpentry, Castle, Ceredigion, Ceredigion (Assembly constituency), Ceredigion (UK Parliament constituency), Chain store, Charles Robert Cockerell, Charter, Cilmeri, College town, Confluence, Culture of Wales, Cwmann, Danycoed Halt railway station, Drovers' road, Dyfed, Dylan Thomas Trail, Edward I of England, English language, France, Free Wales Army, Glossary of rail transport terms, Goscombe John, Gwili Railway, Hatmaking, Horse fair, Julian Cayo-Evans, Lampeter Museum, Lampeter Town RFC, Liberal arts education, Llanybydder, Lloyd baronets, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Nationalism, New Quay, Normans, Owain Gwynedd, Oxbridge, Paramilitary, Pillory, ..., Quadrangle (architecture), River Dulas, River Teifi, Rowland Williams (theologian), Rugby union, Saddle, Saint-Germain-sur-Moine, Shoemaking, Sister city, South West Wales, Stocks, Swansea, Tanning (leather), Tennis, Theatr Felinfach, Town, Tregaron, United Kingdom, University of Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, Wales, Welsh language, Woollen industry in Wales, World War II. Expand index (25 more) »

Aberaeron

Aberaeron (formerly anglicised as Aberayron) is a seaside resort town in Ceredigion, Wales.

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Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth (Mouth of the Ystwyth) is a historic market town, administrative centre, and holiday resort within Ceredigion, West Wales, often colloquially known as Aber.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).

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Borough

A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.

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Bowls

Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls called woods so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty".

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Bronwydd Arms railway station

Bronwydd Arms railway station, originally a stop on the now closed Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line, is the headquarters of the preserved Gwili Railway.

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Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan (Aberteifi) is a town in the county of Ceredigionformerly Cardiganshirein Wales.

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Carmarthen

Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin, "Merlin's fort") is the county town of Carmarthenshire in Wales.

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Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.

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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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Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a county in the Mid Wales area of Wales and previously was a minor kingdom.

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Ceredigion (Assembly constituency)

Ceredigion is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Ceredigion (UK Parliament constituency)

Ceredigion, formerly Cardiganshire, is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Chain store

Chain store(s) or retail chain(s) are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices.

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Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Robert Cockerell (27 April 1788 – 17 September 1863) was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer.

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Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.

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Cilmeri

Cilmeri is a village in Powys, mid-Wales two and a half miles west of Builth Wells on the A483 to Llandovery.

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College town

A college town or university town is a community (often a separate town or city, but in some cases a town/city neighborhood or a district) that is dominated by its university population.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.

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Culture of Wales

Wales is a country in Western Europe that has a distinctive culture including its own language, customs, holidays and music.

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Cwmann

Cwmann is a small village in Wales near Lampeter, just on the Ceredigion border with Carmarthenshire.

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Danycoed Halt railway station

Danycoed Halt, which is Welsh for below the trees, was built by the Gwili Railway in the late 1990s and opened in 2001.

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Drovers' road

A drovers' road, drove or droveway is a route for droving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture (see transhumance).

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Dyfed

Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974, as an amalgamation of the three pre-existing counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. It was abolished twenty-two years later, on 1 April 1996, when the three original counties were reinstated, Cardiganshire being renamed Ceredigion the following day. The name "Dyfed" is retained for certain ceremonial and other purposes. It is a mostly rural county in southwestern Wales with a coastline on the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel.

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Dylan Thomas Trail

The Dylan Thomas Trail (Llwybr Dylan Thomas) runs through places associated with the poet Dylan Thomas in Ceredigion, west Wales.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Free Wales Army

The Free Wales Army (Byddin Rhyddid Cymru) was a paramilitary Welsh nationalist organisation, formed at Lampeter in Ceredigion by William Julian Cayo-Evans in 1963.

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Glossary of rail transport terms

Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology.

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Goscombe John

Sir William Goscombe John (21 February 1860 – 15 December 1952) was a Welsh sculptor.

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Gwili Railway

The Gwili Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Gwili) is a Welsh heritage railway, that operates a preserved standard gauge railway line from the site of Abergwili Junction (near Carmarthen) in southwest Wales along a section of the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line.

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Hatmaking

Hatmaking or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and head-wear.

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Horse fair

A horse fair is normally an annual fair where people buy and sell horses.

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Julian Cayo-Evans

William Edward Julian Cayo-Evans (22 April 1937–28 March 1995) was a Welsh political activist, uncle to the famous “Jac” and one time leader of the Free Wales Army.

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Lampeter Museum

The Lampeter Museum was founded by Hanes Llambed, the local history society, in 2014 at the town's university campus.

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Lampeter Town RFC

Lampeter Town Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Lampeter, West Wales.

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Liberal arts education

Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history.

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Llanybydder

Llanybydder (sometimes formerly spelt Llanybyther) is a community and market town straddling the River Teifi in Carmarthenshire, West Wales.

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Lloyd baronets

There have been nine baronetcies created for persons with the surname Lloyd, three in the Baronetage of England, three in the Baronetage of Great Britain and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1223 – 11 December 1282), sometimes written as Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, also known as Llywelyn the Last (lit), was Prince of Wales (Princeps Wallie; Tywysog Cymru) from 1258 until his death at Cilmeri in 1282.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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New Quay

New Quay (Cei Newydd) is a seaside town in Ceredigion, Wales with a resident population of around 1,200 people, reducing to 1,082 at the 2011 census.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Owain Gwynedd

Owain ap Gruffudd (23 or 28 November 1170) was King of Gwynedd, North Wales, from 1137 until his death in 1170, succeeding his father Gruffudd ap Cynan.

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Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of "Oxford" and "Cambridge"; the two oldest, most prestigious, and consistently most highly-ranked universities in the United Kingdom.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a semi-militarized force whose organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but which is not included as part of a state's formal armed forces.

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Pillory

The pillory was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse.

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Quadrangle (architecture)

In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings).

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River Dulas

The River Dulas (Welsh: Afon Dulas) is a tributary of the River Teifi and has its source near the village of Llangybi, Ceredigion, Wales.

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River Teifi

The River Teifi (Afon Teifi) in Wales forms the boundary for most of its length between the counties of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and for the final of its total length of, the boundary between Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.

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Rowland Williams (theologian)

Rowland Williams (16 August 1817–18 January 1870) was vice-principal and Professor of Hebrew at St David’s College, Lampeter, from 1849 to 1862 and was one of the most influential theologians of the nineteenth century.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Saddle

The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.

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Saint-Germain-sur-Moine

Saint-Germain-sur-Moine is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

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Shoemaking

Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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South West Wales

South West Wales is a region of Wales.

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Stocks

Stocks are restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

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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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Tanning (leather)

Tanned leather in Marrakesh Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Theatr Felinfach

Theatr Felinfach is a small regional theatre located outside the village of Ystrad Aeron in Dyffryn Aeron, about 7 miles from the university town of Lampeter in Ceredigion, Wales.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Tregaron

Tregaron is a market town in the county of Ceredigion, Wales, lying on the River Brenig (also Brennig), a tributary of the River Teifi.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Wales

The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) was a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

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University of Wales Trinity Saint David

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant) is a collegiate university operating on three main campuses in South West Wales: in Carmarthen, Lampeter, and Swansea.

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University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales, Lampeter (Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales.

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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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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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Woollen industry in Wales

The woollen industry in Wales was at times the country's most important industry, though it often struggled to compete with the better-funded woollen mills in the north of England, and almost disappeared during the 20th century.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampeter

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