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Central Wales Challenge Cup
The Central Wales Challenge Cup is a football knockout tournament involving teams from in North Wales who play in leagues administered and associated with the Central Wales Football Association. Previous winners Information sourced from Welsh Football Statistician. 1960s *1969–70: – Welshpool Town 1970s *1970–71: – Welshpool Town *1971–72: – Knighton Town *1972–73: – Barmouth & Dyffryn United *1973–74: – Welshpool Town *1974–75: – Newtown *1975–76: – Aberystwyth Town *1976–77: – Welshpool Town *1977–78: – Caersws *1978–79: – Presteigne St. Andrews *1979–80: – Welshpool Town 1980s *1980–81: – Newtown *1981–82: – Aberystwyth Town *1982–83: – Aberystwyth Town *1983–84: – Llanidloes Town *1984–85: – Aberystwyth Town *1985–86: – Presteigne St. Andrews *1986–87: – Aberystwyth Town *1989–88: – Aberystwyth Town *1988–89: – Caersws *1989–90: – Welshpool Town 1990s *1990–91: – Caersws ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilsfield F
Guilsfield (, " Hemlock-field") is a village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. It lies beside Guilsfield Brook about three miles north of Welshpool. It is located on the B4392 road and a disused branch of the Montgomery Canal starts nearby. The community has an area of and had a population of 1,640 in 2001.Davies, John; Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines & Peredur I. Lynch (2008) ''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales'', University of Wales Press, Cardiff. rising to 1,727 in 2011. The community includes the villages of Burgedin and Groes-lwyd. The village itself had a population of about 1,220. Name The Welsh name of the village was first recorded in the 12th century as '. The English name was first recorded in 1278 as "Guildesfelde". It may be named after a person (i.e., "Gyldi's field") or could mean "gold field". History In 1862, a hoard of metalwork from the late Bronze Age was discovered near the village. It contained over 120 pieces such as swords, spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machynlleth F
Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 2,147, rising to 2,235 in 2011. It is sometimes referred to colloquially as ''Mach''. Machynlleth was the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Parliament in 1404,''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales''. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg527 and as such claims to be the "ancient capital of Wales". However, it has never held any official recognition as a capital. It applied for city status in 2000 and 2002, but was unsuccessful. It is twinned with Belleville, Michigan. Machynlleth hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1937 and 1981. Etymology The etymology of the name Machynlleth derives from ield, plainand . The ending 's' of is the cause of the 'c' of becoming 'ch': reflecting a standard ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Cup Competitions In Wales
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league, rugby league football; and rugby union, rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berriew F
Berriew () is a village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. It is on the Montgomeryshire Canal and the Afon Rhiw, near the confluence (Welsh: ''aber'') with the River Severn ( Welsh: Afon Hafren) at , 79 miles (128 km) from Cardiff and 151 miles (243 km) from London. The village itself had a population of 283. and the community also includes Garthmyl Hall, Berriew, Garthmyl Hall and Refail. Buildings and architecture Berriew contains many architecturally important buildings. There are 103 Listed Buildings in Berriew of which 5 are Grade II*. Nearly a quarter of the listed building are connected with the Montgomeryshire Canal The Montgomery Canal (), known colloquially as "The Monty", is a partially restored canal in eastern Powys and northwest Shropshire. The canal runs from the Llangollen Canal at Frankton Junction to Newtown, Powys, Newtown via Llanymynech and ... which runs across the parish to the S.E. of Berriew. The most important of the lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberaeron F
Aberaeron (), previously Anglicisation, anglicised as Aberayron, is a town, Community (Wales), community and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales. Located on the coast between Aberystwyth and Cardigan, Ceredigion, Cardigan, its resident population was 1,274 in the 2021 census. The name of the town is Welsh language, Welsh for "mouth of the River Aeron, Aeron". It is derived from the Middle Welsh ' (slaughter), which gave its name to Aeron (Celtic mythology), Aeron, believed by some to have been a Welsh god of war. One of the main Ceredigion County Council office sites is located in Aberaeron. History and design In 1800, there was no significant coastal settlement here. The present town was planned and developed from 1805 by the Rev. Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne. He built a harbour which operated as a port and supported a shipbuilding industry in the 19th century. A group of workmen's houses and a school were built on the harbour's north side, but these were reclaimed by the sea. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carno F
Carno is a village and community in Powys, Wales. It was also a parish in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, comprising the townships of Derlwyn, Llysyn and Trowscoed. It is in the geographical centre of Wales. History A Roman Fort named ''Gaer Noddfa'' is located next to the churchyard on the bank of the Afon Carno. The site encompasses a rectangular area by . A large mound occupies part of the fort; pottery found nearby indicate medieval usage but suggestions that it was a Norman fortification like a motte have been rejected. In 952, Iago and Ieuaf, the two exiled sons of Idwal Foel, King of Gwynedd, invaded Dyfed. But they were defeated in a decisive battle near Carno by the sons of Hywel Dda, King of Deheubarth. The victory secured the sovereignty of North Wales. A Grade II* 16th century timber-framed house, Plasau Duon, is near the village. The Manor House Plas Llysyn was a property raided as an LSD factory as part of Operation Julie. Plas Llysyn was under sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanfair United F
Llanfair ( Welsh for "St. Mary's Parish") may refer to: Places * Llanfair Clydogau; a small village in Mid Wales *Llanfair, Gwynedd, a village in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd * Llanfair-is-gaer, a former parish in Arfon, Gwynedd * Llanfair, Vale of Glamorgan, a community near Cowbridge *Llanfair Caereinion, Powys; a small town in east central Wales *Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey; a village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales * Llanfair-Nant-Gwyn, hamlet in Pembrokeshire *Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, a village and community in Denbighshire, Wales * Llanfair, Alabama, USA Fiction * Llanfair (''One Life to Live''), the Lord family mansion on the American soap opera ''One Life to Live'' Other uses *"Llanfair", a popular Welsh hymn tune; see "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" is a Christian hymn associated with Easter. Most of the stanzas were written by Charles Wesley, and the hymn appeared under the title "Hymn for Easter Day" in ''Hymns a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Rovers F
Waterloo most commonly refers to: * Battle of Waterloo, 1815 battle where Napoleon's French army was defeated by Anglo-allied and Prussian forces * Waterloo, Belgium Waterloo may also refer to: Other places Australia *Waterloo, New South Wales * Waterloo, Queensland *Waterloo, South Australia *Waterloo Bay, now Elliston, South Australia *Waterloo, Victoria *Waterloo, Western Australia Canada *Waterloo, Nova Scotia *Regional Municipality of Waterloo, a region in Ontario **Waterloo, Ontario, a city **Waterloo (federal electoral district) **Waterloo (provincial electoral district) **Waterloo County, Ontario (1853–1973) *Waterloo, Quebec *Waterloo Village, a neighbourhood in Saint John, New Brunswick United Kingdom England *Waterloo, Dorset, England, a suburb of Poole *Waterloo, Huddersfield, England, a suburb *Waterloo, London, England, area around Waterloo Station *Waterloo Place, London, a street in the St James's area *Waterloo, Merseyside, England **Waterloo (UK Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanfyllin Town F
Llanfyllin ( – ) is a market town and community in Powys, Wales. The community (which measures 41.8 square kilometres) population in 2021 was 1,586 and the town's name means ''church or parish'' ( llan) ''of St Myllin'' ('m' frequently mutates to 'f' in Welsh). The community includes the settlements of Bodfach, Ty Crwyn, Abernaint and several farms. Geography The town lies in the valley of the River Cain near the Berwyn Mountains in Montgomeryshire, southwest of Oswestry and from Montgomery. The River Cain is joined by the small River Abel in Llanfyllin (presumably named after Cain and Abel in the Bible), and meanders through the valley, flowing into the River Vyrnwy at Llansantffraid. History The town lies between Shrewsbury and Bala, for a long time the key market towns in this area of Wales and the Welsh borders. At nearby Bodyddon there is evidence of an early British settlement. Llanfyllin may be the "Mediolanum among the Ordovices" described in Ptolemy's ''Geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 United Kingdom Foot-and-mouth Outbreak
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease on farms across most of the British countryside. Over 6 million cows and sheep were slaughtered on farms in an eventually successful attempt to halt the disease. Cumbria was the worst affected area of the country, with 893 cases. With the intention of controlling the spread of the disease, public rights of way across land were closed by order. This damaged the popularity of rural areas such as Wales, Cornwall and the Lake District as tourist destinations and led to the cancellation of that year's Cheltenham Festival, as well as the British Rally Championship for the 2001 season along with the Isle of Man TT, and also delayed 2001 United Kingdom general election, that year's general election by a month. Crufts, the international dog show, had to be postponed by 2 months from March to May 2001. By the time that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhayader Town F
Rhayader (; ; ) is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, within the historic county of Radnorshire. The town is from the source of the River Wye on Plynlimon, the highest point of the Cambrian Mountains, and is located at the junction of the A470 road and the A44 road north of Builth Wells and east of Aberystwyth. The population was 2,088, with 55% of the community having some form of Welsh identity, according to the 2011 census. The community is the largest in Wales by area, with . It includes the Elan Valley. Rhayader holds the record for the lowest-ever temperature recorded in Wales, -23.3 °C on 21 January 1940. Jasper Fforde’s novels “Red Side Story” and “Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron” are located in a dystopian version of Rhayader called East Carmine. Etymology The name, ''Rhayader'', is a partly-Anglicised form of its Welsh name, ('the waterfall'), or, to distinguish it from other places named after waterfalls, ('waterfall n th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penrhyncoch F
Penrhyn-coch is a small village in the community of Trefeurig, Ceredigion, Wales, located between Afon Stewi and Nant Seilo rivers, close to where they merge into Afon Clarach. The village is approximately north-east of Aberystwyth. The village has expanded since the 1970s with several housing estates being built. There are around 480 houses and an estimated population of 1,037 (2005). Most of the working population is employed in Aberystwyth or at the nearby Aberystwyth University, Institute of Biological and Environmental Research. Facilities Penrhyn-coch has a range of facilities including a school, post office, petrol station, social club, tennis courts, children's playground, two places of worship St. John's parish church and Horeb Nonconformist chapel, three halls and a nursery. Just outside the village is a Natural Resources Wales (formerly Forestry Commission) site named Gogerddan Allt Ddel, with hillwalking and picnic facilities. Penrhyncoch F.C. of the Cymru N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
