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Barmouth (Abermaw (formal); Y Bermo (colloquial)) is a town in the county of Gwynedd, north-western Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. [1]

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Adrian Dingle (cartoonist)

John Adrian Darley Dingle (1911 – 22 December 1974), known professionally as Adrian Dingle, was a Welsh Canadian painter.

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Afon Mawddach

The Afon Mawddach (italic) is a river in Gwynedd, Wales, which has its source in a wide area north of Dduallt in Snowdonia.

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Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.

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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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Bala, Gwynedd

Bala (Welsh: Y Bala) is a market town and community in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Barmouth & Dyffryn United F.C.

Barmouth & Dyffryn United Football Club is a Welsh football club based in the coastal town of Barmouth, Gwynedd, also representing the nearby town of Dyffryn Ardudwy.

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Barmouth Bridge

Barmouth Bridge (Welsh: Pont Abermaw), also known as Barmouth Viaduct is a Grade II* listed single-track wooden railway viaduct across the River Mawddach estuary near Barmouth, Wales.

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Barmouth Ferry

The Barmouth Ferry provides a passenger service across the River Mawddach in Gwynedd county, north Wales.

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Barmouth railway station

Barmouth railway station serves the seaside town of Barmouth in Gwynedd, Wales.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Beach racing

Beach racing is an offshoot of enduro and motocross racing.

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Bill Tilman

For the 1800s US Western lawman that became a movie actor see Bill Tilghman.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Black Country

The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham, and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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Brain of Britain

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Cadair Idris

Cadair Idris or Cader Idris is a mountain in Gwynedd, Wales, which lies at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park near the town of Dolgellau.

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Cambrian Line

The Cambrian Line (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Cambrian) is a railway that runs from Shrewsbury (in Shropshire, England) to Aberystwyth (in Ceredigion) and Pwllheli (in Gwynedd), both on the west coast of Wales.

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Cardigan Bay

Cardigan Bay (Bae Ceredigion) is a large inlet of the Irish Sea, indenting the west coast of Wales between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire at its southern end.

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Charlie Brooks

Charlene Emma "Charlie" Brooks (born 3 May 1981) is a British actress, known for playing Janine Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

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Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)

Christopher David Williams (7 January 1873–1934) was a Welsh artist.

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Colloquialism

Everyday language, everyday speech, common parlance, informal language, colloquial language, general parlance, or vernacular (but this has other meanings too), is the most used variety of a language, which is usually employed in conversation or other communication in informal situations.

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County

A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes,Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations.

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Cycling infrastructure

Cycling infrastructure refers to all infrastructure which may be used by cyclists.

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Dolgellau

Dolgellau (formerly Dolgell(e)y; see below) is a market town and Community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach.

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Dudley

Dudley is a large town in the county of West Midlands, England, south-east of Wolverhampton and north-west of Birmingham.

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Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency)

Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election.

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Dwyfor Meirionnydd (UK Parliament constituency)

Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster).

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EastEnders

EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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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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Fairbourne

Fairbourne is a village on the coast of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, surrounded by the Snowdonia National Park.

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Fairbourne Railway

The Fairbourne Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there is a connection with the Barmouth Ferry across the Mawddach estuary to the seaside resort of Barmouth (Abermaw).

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Fairbourne Spit

Fairbourne Spit (also known as Penrhyn Point) is a long spit of sand and shingle at the mouth of the River Mawddach where it reaches Cardigan Bay, on the west coast of Wales.

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Fanny Talbot

Fanny Talbot (née) Browne (1824–1917) was a landowner and philanthropist, and a friend and correspondent of the influential art critic John Ruskin.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, Guerre franco-allemande), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871) or in Germany as 70/71, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.

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Harold Lowe

Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe RD (21 November 1882 – 12 May 1944) was the fifth officer of the.

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Herbert Tudor Buckland

Herbert Tudor Buckland (20 November 1869 – 1951) was a British architect, best known for his seminal Arts and Crafts houses (several of which, including his own at Edgbaston, Birmingham, are Grade I listed), the Elan Valley model village, educational buildings such as the campus of the Royal Hospital School in Suffolk and St Hugh's College in Oxford.

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Historic counties of Wales

The historic counties of Wales are sub-divisions of Wales.

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Jim Valentine

James "Jim" Valentine (29 July 1866 – 25 July 1904) was an English rugby union and semi-professional Northern Union (Rugby Football League (RFL)) footballer of the 1880s, 1990s and 1900s.

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Johnny Williams (boxer)

Johnny Williams (25 December 1926 in Barmouth – 6 February 2007) was a British former professional boxer in the 1940s and 1950s and was at one time both the British and Empire heavyweight champion.

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Llanaber

Llanaber is a linear village in north west Wales, near the resort of Barmouth.

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Mawddach Trail

The Mawddach Trail (Llwybr Mawddach) is a cycle path route, part of Lôn Las Cymru, which runs for some from Dolgellau to Morfa Mawddach railway station, by Barmouth bridge on the Cambrian coast.

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Merionethshire

Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Motocross

Motocross is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways.

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Ruabon–Barmouth line

The Ruabon–Barmouth line was a standard-gauge branch line of the Great Western Railway across the north of Wales which connected Ruabon, in the east, with Barmouth on the west coast.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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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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Russell Davies

Robert Russell Davies (born 5 April 1946) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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Savile Row

Savile Row (pronounced) is a street in Mayfair, central London.

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Seaside resort

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

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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St David's Church, Barmouth

St David's Church is a Church in Wales church by the harbour of Barmouth, Gwynedd, west Wales.

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St John's Church, Barmouth

St John's Church, Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales was built between 1889 and 1895 and designed by the Chester architects Douglas and Fordham.

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St Tudwal's Church, Barmouth

St Tudwal's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Barmouth, Gwynedd.

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Swinton Lions

The Swinton Lions are an English professional rugby league club from Swinton, Greater Manchester, who compete in the Championship, the second tier of European rugby league.

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Telford

Telford is a large new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, about east of Shrewsbury, and north west of Birmingham.

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Three Peaks yacht race

The Three Peaks Yacht Race is held each year in June in the United Kingdom since 1977.

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Tommy Nutter

Tommy Nutter (17 April 1943 – 17 August 1992), was a British tailor, famous for reinventing the Savile Row suit in the 1960s.

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Tower house

A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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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 Alliance League

The Welsh Alliance Football League (currently the Lock Stock Welsh Alliance Football League, for sponsorship reasons) is a football league formed in 1984.

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West Midlands conurbation

The West Midlands conurbation is the large conurbation that includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the large towns of Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge and Halesowen in the English West Midlands.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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References

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

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