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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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• River Thames
  ...from its source to its mouth for thousands of years, providing habitation, water power, food and drink. It has also acted as a major highway through the Por ...997: 147.</ref> recorded in Latin as ''Tamesis'' and underlying the modern Welsh name for it: ''Tafwys''.
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• Southampton
  ...] at the meeting of the [[River Test]] and [[River Itchen]]. Southampton Water provides a deep, broad, sheltered [[English Channel]] roadstead, which has ...rivers. The city lies at the northern tip of the Southampton Water, a deep water estuary, which is a ria formed at the end of the last Ice Age. Here, the ri
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• Tintern
  |welsh=Tyndyrn ...ern Village Website] - History</ref> The name Tintern may derive from the Welsh ''din deyrn'', meaning "rocks of the king".<ref name=davies>E. T. Davies, '
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• Llandrindod Wells
  |welsh=Llandrindod ...es originally displayed in the garage.<ref>[http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/ Welsh National Cycle Museum]</ref>
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• Rhayader
  |welsh=Rhaeadr Gwy The name "Rhayader" is from the Welsh "Rhaeadr Gwy", meaning Waterfall on the [[River Wye|Wye]]. Little remains o
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• Coatbridge
  ...is either derived from the Middle English "cote" (cottage) or from the Old Welsh "coed" meaning "wood".<ref name="Frost's Scottish Gazette">{{cite web|url=h ...n the Loch at the present day Drumpellier Country Park. Dependent upon the water level in the loch, the remains can still be seen today.<ref>''Coatbridge (I
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• Pennines
  The Pennines are an important water catchment area with numerous reservoirs in the headwaters of the major rive ...frequently, and asserts that their name is from Gaulish, equivalent to the Welsh ''pen'' for mountain peak, and which gives us the names of several of the f
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• Tywyn
  The name is from the Welsh language, with ''tywyn'' meaning "beach", "seashore" or "sand-dune". Extens ...wyn-on-Sea''. At the time of the 2001 census, 40.5% of the population were Welsh-speakers.
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• Bala Lake
  Bala Lake is the largest natural body of water in Wales (or rather it was: its level is altered by the hand of man, raised ...or else perhaps 'an isthmus between two lakes or areas of wet ground'. The Welsh name includes the personal name 'Tegid'. An older now redundant English nam
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• Snowdon
  |welsh=Yr Wyddfa ...es from Arthurian legend, the mountain is linked to a legendary ''afanc'' (water monster) and the ''Tylwyth Teg'' (fairies).
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