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• Llangollen
  The water mill opposite Llangollen railway station has been converted into a public h ...(navigable to Llangollen) was constructed from the canal at Trevor to tap water from the River Dee at [[Llantysilio]] (at the weir called "Horseshoe Falls"
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• Derby
  ...ld British tongue apparently meaning "oak-tree water". ''Derw'' is Modern Welsh for oak tree. ...Britain's Industrial Revolution. In 1717, Derby was the site of the first water powered silk mill in Britain, built by John Lombe and George Sorocold, afte
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• Poole
  The town's name derives either from the Old Welsh ''bol'' or ''pwll'' or the Old English word ''pol'', both meaning "pool" or ...e too large for the shallow harbour and the port lost business to the deep water ports at Liverpool, Southampton and Plymouth.<ref name="phc history"/> Pool
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• Ecclefechan
  The name of Ecclefechan is from Old Welsh, the name being reconstructed as ''Eglwys fechan'', menaing "small church". Ecclefechan lies in the valley of the Mein Water, a tributary of the [[River Annan]], five miles north of [[Annan]] and eigh
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• Rugby
  *Draycote Water - Reservoir and nature reserve ...union teams including; the Rugby Lions, [http://www.rugbywelsh.co.uk Rugby Welsh], [http://www.standrewsrfc.co.uk/ Rugby St.Andrews RFC], [http://www.newbol
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• Beith
  Alternatively, Beith may be derived from Cumbric ''*baɣeδ'', 'boar' (Welsh ''baedd'').<ref>http://www.spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/BLITON201 ...cated not in Beith, but up on the top of the Bigholm near to the old Beith water dams. The first settlements were in the heavily wooded areas around the dam
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• Winchester
  ...Venta Silurum'' ([[Caerwent]]). ''Venta'' is the equivalent of the Modern Welsh ''Gwent''. In Nennius's list of the cities of Britain, Winchester is appar ...ehouse, cloister, hall, a magnificent college chapel and it also owns "The Water Meadows" through which runs a part of the [[River Itchen]]. It was planned
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• Haddington
  ...54) and the County Courthouse (1833). Other notable sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, and Mitchell's Close. ...1948''' – 6 to 12 August – Flood damages town. Much of the town under water.
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• River Cleddau
  ...7</ref>. The name Cleddau is not, as it seems, a plural but comes from the Welsh word 'cleddyf' meaning 'sword' and refers perhaps to the manner in which bo ...au, Nant-y-bugail, Afon Anghof, Nant-y-coy Brook, Spittal Brook, Rudbaxton Water, Camrose Brook , Cartlett Brook, Afon Wern, Llanycefn, Rhyd-afallen, Afon S
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• Colchester
  ...ture. Significant landmarks include the Colchester Town Hall and the Jumbo Water Tower. ...he patron saint of Colchester. Irksomely for local pride, scholarship and Welsh legend place Old King Cole, Coel Hen, in a later generation and ruling in t
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• Newport, Shropshire
  Newport lies on the eastern border of the Welsh Marches and west of the [[Aqualate Mere]], the largest natural lake in the .... The governing body consisted of a Lord High Steward, deputy steward, two water-bailiffs and 28 burgesses, but the corporation was abolished by the Municip
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• River Usk
  ...on, ''Isca'', reflects that of the river in perhaps an older form. In the Welsh language today it is the ''Wysg''. ..., which today is more familiar as "whisky" but which means in Gaelic just "water". He is right to see a connection, but if not Gaelic, it is from some lost
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• Holywell, Flintshire
  |welsh=Treffynnon ...cluded manilas (copper bracelets, neptunes (large flat dishes to evaporate water from seawater to produce salt) and copper sheathing. The copper sheathing w
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• Rhyl
  |welsh=Y Rhyl ...' "(The Street)". Another theory is that the name Rhyl originates from the Welsh ''Tŷ'n yr haul'' meaning 'House in the sun'. The oldest known dwelling in
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• Whitchurch, Glamorgan
  |welsh=Yr Eglwys Newydd ...s.<ref>[http://blog.stuartherbert.com/photography/category/merthyr-road/by-water/melingriffith-feeder/ Meligriffith Tin Works]</ref>
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• Port Talbot
  ...named for the Talbot family;<ref name="Davies,p.697">{{cite book|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales|editor=John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Bain ...plant at Baglan Bay by British Petroleum in the 1960s. In 1970 a new deep-water harbour was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, capable
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• Barry
  |welsh=Y Barri ...els up to 23,000 tons and the first-class tidal position close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, allows for regular scheduled sailings. With
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• Bridgend
  |welsh=Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr ...ved in Wales and in the south and east created what would later become the Welsh Marches, while the north and west remained largely unconquered due to the h
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• Merthyr Tydfil
  |welsh=Merthyr Tudful ...l meaning of the word ''merthyr'' (from the Latin ''martyrium'') in modern Welsh is 'martyr', it is probable that the meaning here is "church (in memory of
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• Gloucester
  ...This in turn comes from an Old Welsh name, which is represented in Modern Welsh as ''Caerloyw'', (in which ''caer'' means "fort", and ''gloyw'' means "glow Gloucester was captured from the Welsh by the West Saxons in 577 and in 584 it came under the control of the Merci
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