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Ogmore Vale

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Ogmore Vale (Cwm Ogwr) is a village in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales on the River Ogmore. [1]

36 relations: A Run for Your Money, Aneurin Barnard, Bituminous coal, Brass band, Bridgend, Bridgend (Assembly constituency), Bridgend (UK Parliament constituency), Bridgend County Borough, Bullet for My Valentine, Coal, Coal mining, Community (Wales), County borough, Drift mining, Funeral for a Friend, Grahame Hodgson, Hill farming, John Brogden and Sons, Lynn Davies, Melbourne Thomas, Mid Glamorgan, Nantymoel, Nerys Hughes, Ogmore (UK Parliament constituency), Ogmore Valley, Population, Porthcawl, Primary school, River Ogmore, Rugby union, Rural area, Snowdonia, St Fagans National Museum of History, Tondu, Very Annie Mary, Windsor Davies.

A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money is a 1949 Ealing Studios comedy film starring Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as two Welshmen visiting London for the first time.

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Aneurin Barnard

Aneurin Barnard (born 8 May 1987) is a Welsh stage and screen actor.

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Bituminous coal

Bituminous coal or black coal is a relatively soft coal containing a tarlike substance called bitumen or asphalt.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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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 (Assembly constituency)

Bridgend is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Bridgend (UK Parliament constituency)

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr in Welsh) is a parliamentary constituency created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Madeleine Moon of the Labour Party.

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Bridgend County Borough

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in southern Wales, UK.

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Bullet for My Valentine

Bullet for My Valentine, often abbreviated as BFMV, are a Welsh heavy metal band from Bridgend, formed in 1998.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Community (Wales)

A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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County borough

County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.

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Drift mining

Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed.

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Funeral for a Friend

Funeral for a Friend were a Welsh post-hardcore band from Bridgend, formed in 2001.

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Grahame Hodgson

Grahame Thornton Ridgeway Hodgson (1 December 1936 – 23 January 2016) was a Welsh international rugby union player.

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Hill farming

Hill farming is extensive farming in upland areas, primarily rearing sheep, although historically cattle were often reared extensively in upland areas.

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John Brogden and Sons

John Brogden and Sons was a firm of Railway Contractors, Iron and Coal Miners and Iron Smelters operating, initially as a general contractor, from roughly 1828 until its bankruptcy in 1880.

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Lynn Davies

Lynn Davies CBE (born 20 May 1942) is a British former track and field athlete from Wales, who specialised in the long jump.

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Melbourne Thomas

Beriah Melbourne Gwynne Thomas (11 June 1896 – 23 June 1966) was a Welsh international rugby union player.

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Mid Glamorgan

Mid Glamorgan (Morgannwg Ganol) is a preserved county of Wales.

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Nantymoel

Nantymoel (Nant-y-moel) (Welsh for Stream from the bare mountain) is a village and includes the formerly separate village of Pricetown in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales on the River Ogmore, and is one of the constituent villages of the Ogmore Valley.

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Nerys Hughes

Nerys Hughes (born 8 November 1941) is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles, including her part in the BBC TV series The Liver Birds.

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Ogmore (UK Parliament constituency)

Ogmore (Ogwr) is a constituency created in 1918 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Chris Elmore of the Labour Party.

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Ogmore Valley

Ogmore Valley (Cwm Ogwr) is a community in the Bridgend County Borough, Mid Glamorgan, Wales.

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Population

In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.

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Porthcawl

Porthcawl is a town and community on the south coast of Wales in the county borough of Bridgend, west of the capital city, Cardiff and southeast of Swansea.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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River Ogmore

The River Ogmore (Afon Ogwr in Welsh) is a river in South Wales popular with anglers.

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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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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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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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St Fagans National Museum of History

St Fagans National Museum of History (Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people.

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Tondu

Tondu (Black Sward) is a village in Bridgend County Borough, Wales, located about north of the town of Bridgend.

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Very Annie Mary

Very Annie Mary is a 2001 comedy film and musical from Wales, written and directed by Sara Sugarman and starring Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce.

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Windsor Davies

Windsor Davies (born 28 August 1930) is a retired British actor who acted in many films and TV shows between 1964 and 2004.

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References

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

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