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Betws Bledrws - Geograph
Betws or Bettws may refer to: Places * Bettws, Bridgend, Wales * Bettws, Newport, Wales * Bettws Cedewain, Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales * Bettws Newydd, Monmouthshire, Wales * Bettws-y-Crwyn, Shropshire, England * Betws Bledrws, Llangybi, Ceredigion, Wales * Betws Diserth, Radnorshire, Wales * Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales * Betws Gwerfil Goch, Denbighshire, Wales * Betws Ifan, Ceredigion, Wales * Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, Wales * Betws, Carmarthenshire, Wales ** Betws, Carmarthenshire (electoral ward) * Betws-y-Coed, Conwy County Borough, Wales * Capel Betws Lleucu, Cardiganshire, Wales * Comins Capel Betws, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ceredigion, Wales Sports teams * Bettws F.C., a football team in Bettws, Bridgend, Wales *Betws RFC, a rugby team in Betws, Carmarthenshire, Wales *Bettws RFC Bettws Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Bettws, Newport in South Wales. It currently plays in the Welsh Rugby Union The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettws, Bridgend
Bettws , ( cy, Betws) is a small ex-mining and farming village in the South Wales Valleys in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales. Bettws is also an electoral ward to the county council. Bryngarw Country Park is approximately one mile away, with a footpath leading there from the village. The village is around 3 miles away from Junction 36 on the M4 Motorway, and is located to the west of Llangeinor and to the north of Brynmenyn. Geography Bettws is located in the southern part of Bridgend County Borough in South Wales. It is located north of the town of Bridgend and lies on the west side of the main A4064 road. It is situated on the River Ogmore, and is watered by the Llynfi and Garw rivulets which border the village on both its sides. The nearest parish to Bettws is Llangeinor to the north-east, and Llangynwyd to the west. The population of Bettws is around 2,400 according to The Betws LIFE Centre. Etymology The name of the village comes from the Middle English word ''b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettws Cedewain
Bettws Cedewain ( cy, Betws Cedewain), also known as Bettws Cedewen, is a small village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. It lies in a sheltered valley on the banks of the River Bechan, some north of Newtown, on the B4389 road. The community is known as just Bettws, and includes the hamlets of Highgate and Brooks. A wooden motte-and-bailey castle appears to have existed there at one time. The site was also possibly previously used by Roman soldiers, and an ancient church was founded there by Saint Beuno in the 6th century. Bettws Cedewain's Grade II* listed St Beuno's church, which was the location of the village's first schoolroom, contains possibly the only pre-Reformation memorial brass in the county, dedicated to the Reverend John ap Meredyth for his work in planning and building the tower. Until 1914, most properties in the village belonged to the Gregynog estate. Bettws Hall is a local venue for game bird shoots. The first element in the name of the vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Betws or Bettws may refer to: Places * Bettws, Bridgend, Wales * Bettws, Newport, Wales * Bettws Cedewain, Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales * Bettws Newydd, Monmouthshire, Wales * Bettws-y-Crwyn, Shropshire, England * Betws Bledrws, Llangybi, Ceredigion, Wales * Betws Diserth, Radnorshire, Wales * Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales * Betws Gwerfil Goch, Denbighshire, Wales * Betws Ifan, Ceredigion, Wales * Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, Wales * Betws, Carmarthenshire, Wales ** Betws, Carmarthenshire (electoral ward) * Betws-y-Coed, Conwy County Borough, Wales * Capel Betws Lleucu, Cardiganshire, Wales * Comins Capel Betws, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ceredigion, Wales Sports teams * Bettws F.C., a football team in Bettws, Bridgend, Wales *Betws RFC Betws Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Betws) is a Welsh rugby union club based in Betws, Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Betws RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Scarlets. History Although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comins Capel Betws
This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in the Ceredigion Area of Search (AOS). History SSSIs in the UK are notified using the concept of an Area of Search, an area of between and in size. The Areas of Search were conceived and developed between 1975 and 1979 by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC), based on regions created by the Local Government Act 1972.Joint Nature Conservation Committee (1998 revision); ''Guidelines for the Selection of Biological SSSIs'', section 4.5, pp. 14–15. . Whereas England had its Areas of Search based on 46 counties, those in Wales were based on a combination of the counties and smaller districts. In 1974, Wales was divided into 8 counties, with 37 districts. The NCC created 12 Welsh Areas of Search; they mostly follow county borders, but the larger counties (Dyfed, Powys and Gwynedd) were divided into multiple Areas using district borders. Mid and South Glamorgan were merged into a single AOS, whilst Llanelli distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betws, Carmarthenshire (electoral Ward)
Betws is an electoral ward, representing part of the community of Betws, near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Profile In 2014, the Betws electoral ward had an electorate of xxx. The total population was xxx, of whom xxx were born in Wales. xxxx% of the population were able to speak Welsh. Current representation The Betws Ward is a single-member ward for the purposes of Carmarthenshire County Council elections. Since 2012 it has been represented by Plaid Cymru councillor Betsan Wyn Jones. Recent history The first election to the new unitary Carmarthenshire County Council took place in 1995. Dorian Evans won the seat by a comfortable majority. In 1999, Evans was re-elected. Evans faced opposition from Plaid Cymru in 2004 but the majority fell to 30 votes. In 2008, Evans was beaten into third place as the seat was won by an Independent candidate. In 2012, Labour having held the seat from 1995 until 2008, came from third place to recapture B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettws Newydd
Bettws Newydd ( cy, Betws Newydd) is a small village in Monmouthshire, in southeast Wales located about north of Usk, a few miles south of Clytha near Raglan, Monmouthshire. Etymology The first part of the name of the village comes from the Middle English word ''bedhus'', meaning "prayer house", which became ''betws'' in Welsh. Bettws Newydd translates therefore to the new prayer house. History The site was originally an oratory or place of prayer and was founded by Saint Aedan of Ferns, who founded several churches in Wales and was also known as St Aidan of Llawhaden. As it was largely reconstructed in the 15th century as a new oratory it was referred to as Bettws Newydd. An old early Norman motte and bailey tump sits behind trees in the village next to the public house. St Aeddan's is 15th century and a Grade I listed building. It has a rare late medieval rood screen and rood loft carved from oak. In the churchyard are two yew trees estimated to be 1,000 years ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettws-y-Crwyn
Bettws-y-Crwyn ( cy, Betws-y-crwyn / Betwsycrowyn) is a small, remote village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in south-west Shropshire, England. It is close to the England–Wales border and is one of a number of English villages to have a Welsh language placename. Name The first part of the name of the village is the Welsh language, Welsh ''bet(t)ws'', a borrowing from the Old English ''bed-hus'', meaning 'prayer house' or 'chapel'. In Welsh, ''crwyn'' (the plural of ''croen'') usually means 'skins, hides, pelts'. Hence Betws-y-Crwyn appears at first to mean 'chapel of the hides'. However, Eilert Ekwall suggested that the form that now appears as ''crwyn'' 'may be Welsh ''crowyn'' 'pigsty' '.Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names' (third edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947), p.38. In this he has been followed by Margaret GellingMargaret Gelling in collaboration with H. D. G. Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire. Part 1, The major nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betws Diserth
Colwyn was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Radnorshire, Wales. The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894, when the existing Builth Rural Sanitary District was divided into two: the section in Breconshire was reconstituted as Builth Rural District and that in Radnorshire as Colwyn Rural District. The new district took its name from the ancient hundred of Colwyn. The council continued to be based in Builth Wells in Breconshire. The rural district comprised ten civil parishes: The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which completely reorganised local administration in England and Wales. Its area became part of the District of Radnor in the new county of Powys Powys (; ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh succession of states, successor state, petty kingdom an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettws, Newport
Bettws ( cy, Betws) is a large modern housing estate, electoral ward and coterminous community (parish) of the city of Newport, South Wales. Etymology The name of the village comes from the Middle English word ''bedhus'', meaning "prayer house", which became ''betws'' in Welsh. Infrastructure The housing estate was built in the 1960s, and the large majority of houses are identical in plan and design. The roads in the estate are all named after rivers. 51.8% of housing is privately owned, and 42.6% is rented from either the Newport City Council or local housing associations, such as Charter Housing. In 2009 Newport City Council transferred ownership of their social housing and most of the land they owned in the area to Newport City Homes, a housing association. The estate was built around the 17th-century parish church of St David in Bettws, which is the likely origin of the name 'Bettws', a place of prayer or private chapel. St David's is a grade two listed building and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betws, Carmarthenshire
Betws ('' en, Chapel house'') is a small village and community on the River Amman, some 15 miles north of Swansea, Wales; it is part of the ecclesiastical parish of ''Betws and Ammanford'', and the urban area of Ammanford. The nearby mountain, at the western end of the Black Mountain, is named after the village, and has a large area of common land. History and location The name 'Betws' is generally thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'bed-hus' - a house of prayer, or oratory, and means "chapel" in the Welsh language. Until the 19th century, when Ammanford developed extensively, Betws was the largest village in the area.Locksmith, WTH (1999) ''Ammanford: Origin of Street Names & Notable Historical Records'' Until the 13th century, Betws was part of Gower, which is now known as the county of Swansea but the old commote border of the rivers Amman and Loughor moved south and Betws has since the Acts of Union been part of Welsh-speaking Carmarthenshire. Article includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betws Garmon
Betws Garmon is a community and small hamlet outside Waunfawr and near Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales. It has a population of 249. The summit of Snowdon lies within the community boundaries. Bryn Gloch has the newly reopened narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway passing alongside it. The hamlet of Rhyd-Ddu is in the community. Over the road from Bryn Gloch there is a parish church. Along the mountain extensive slate workings can be seen. Betws Garmon also has a park near it. Near the station there is a road which leads to Rhosgadfan. Up that road there is a footpath that leads to Y Fron. A river that flows through the hamlet is called Afon Gwyrfai. There was a folk tale concerning the family of Pellings, who lived at Betws Garmon until the 19th century. It was said that they were descended from a man and a fairy named Penelope. Penelope lived happily with her human husband until she was accidentally touched with a piece of iron, whereupon she disappeared forever. Etymolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betws Gwerfil Goch
Betws Gwerfil Goch (Standard Welsh: ''Betws Gwerful Goch'') is a village and community in Denbighshire, Wales. It had a population of 351 at the 2011 census. Until 1974 it was part of Edeirnion Rural District in Meirionnydd, and was transferred to Glyndŵr District in Clwyd by the Local Government Act 1972. retrieved 12 January 2010 It became part of Denbighshire in 1996. The community includes village. The village retains its primary school. Notable people * |
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