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This made South Wales the most important part of Britain for ironmaking until the middle of the 19th century. Second, from 1850 until the outbreak of the First World War, the South Wales Coalfield was developed to supply steam coal and anthracite. [1] The South Wales Valleys hosted Britain's only mountainous coalfields. [2]
Malad Valley was settled in the 1860s by Welsh pioneers who brought their Welsh traditions with them. One important tradition was an annual eisteddfod, patterned after the music and poetry contests held in Wales for over 900 years. Malad Valley's eisteddfod was an annual cultural arts event held in Malad and Samaria on alternating
The statistical region covers all of western Wales from Denbighshire in the north, to the South Wales Valleys and including Bridgend, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, as well as the Isle of Anglesey off the north-west coast of Wales. [1] It covers an area of 1,240,000 hectares (12,400 km 2), with a coastline of 1,150 kilometres (710 mi).
Map of North Wales; common modern day definition in dark red, historical definition in dark red and light red (Montgomeryshire). Map of South Wales, defined either by combining South East and South West Wales (dark red); or the historic definition (dark red and light red); there are other definitions.
Rhondda / ˈ r ɒ n ð ə /, or the Rhondda Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhondda [kʊm ˈr̥ɔnða]), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan.It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley (mawr, 'large') and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley (bach, 'small') – so that the singular "Rhondda Valley" and the ...
Whereas divers considerable persons among Þ e Welsh Friends have requested me Þ t all Þ e Lands Purchased of me by those of North Wales and South Wales, together with Þ e adjacent counties to Þ m, as Haverfordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire, about 40,000 acres, may be lay d out contiguously as one Barony, alledging Þ t Þ e number allready ...
The Upper Swansea valley is the site of Dan yr Ogof Caves, claimed to be the largest show cave complex in Western Europe. [2] South of Abercrave, the valley was formerly a region of heavy industry including coal mining and iron-making and there is plenty of the industrial heritage surviving; the Swansea Canal was built along the valley in the late 18th century to serve the nascent local ...
Y Wladfa (Welsh pronunciation: [ə ˈwladva], 'The Colony'), [2] also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig (Welsh pronunciation: [ə wlaˈdəχva ɡəmˈreiɡ], 'The Welsh Settlement'), [3] [4] refers to the establishment of settlements by Welsh colonists and immigrants in the Argentine Patagonia, beginning in 1865, mainly along the coast of the lower Chubut Valley. [5]