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WRU Division Six East
The Welsh Rugby Union Division Six East (also called the SWALEC Division Six East for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union league in Wales. Competition There are 10 clubs in the WRU Division Six East. During the course of a season (which lasts from September to May) each club plays the others twice, once at their home ground and once at the home ground of their opponents for a total of 18 games for each club, with a total of 90 games in each season. Teams receive four points for a win and two point for a draw, an additional bonus point is awarded to either team if they score four tries or more in a single match. No points are awarded for a loss though the losing team can gain a bonus point for finishing the match within seven points of the winning team. Teams are ranked by total points, then the number of tries scored and then points difference. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned as champion. If points are equal the tries scored then points differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caerleon RFC
Caerleon (; cy, Caerllion) is a town and Community (Wales), community in Newport, Wales. Situated on the River Usk, it lies northeast of Newport city centre, and southeast of Cwmbran. Caerleon is of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Roman Empire, Roman legionary Castra, fortress, Isca Augusta, and an Iron Age hillfort. Close to the remains of Isca Augusta are the National Roman Legion Museum and the Roman Baths Museum. The town also has strong historical and literary associations: Geoffrey of Monmouth elevated the significance of Caerleon as a major centre of British history in his ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' (c. 1136), and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote ''Idylls of the King'' (1859–1885) while staying in Caerleon. History Pre-Roman history The area around Caerleon is of considerable archaeological interest with a number of important Neolithic sites. By the British Iron Age, Iron age, the area was home to the powerful Silures tribe and appears to have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cwm RFC
Cwm may refer to: * Cwm (landform), a rounded, glaciated valley, also known as a corrie or cirque * Cwm (software), a general-purpose data processor for the semantic web * Cwm railway station, a station in Cwm, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, 1852–1963 * Cwm Rhondda, a famous Welsh hymn tune Places * Cwm, Blaenau Gwent, a community in Wales * Cwm, Llanrothal, a Jesuit gathering place in Herefordshire, England * Cwm, Denbighshire, a community in Wales * Cwm Cadnant, a community in Anglesey, north Wales * Cwm Gwaun, a community in northern Pembrokeshire, Wales * Cwm Penmachno, a community in Snowdonia, north Wales * Western Cwm, a geographical feature on Mount Everest Abbreviations * cwm (window manager) or Calm Window Manager, a stacking window manager for Unix systems * Canadian War Museum, Canada's national museum of military history * Cape Wine Master, a South African wine industry qualification * Christian Witness Ministries, a non-denominational church affiliation * Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Panteg RFC
New Panteg Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of New Inn, in Pontypool, Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. Notable former players * Taulupe Faletau (86 test caps for Wales, 4 for the British & Irish Lions) * Mako Vunipola (67 test caps for England, 7 for the British & Irish Lions) * Billy Vunipola Billy Vunipola (born 3 November 1992) is a professional rugby union player who plays at Number 8 for Saracens in the Gallagher Premiership and for the England national team. Born in Australia to Tongan parents, he qualified for England throu ... (60 test caps for England) References External linksNew Panteg RFC Welsh rugby union teams {{Wales-rugbyunion-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crickhowell RFC
Crickhowell (; cy, Crucywel , non-standard spelling ') is a town and community in southeastern Powys, Wales, near Abergavenny, and is in the historic county of Brecknockshire. Location The town lies on the River Usk, on the southern edge of the Black Mountains and in the eastern part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Significant parts of the surrounding countryside, over , form part of the Glanusk Park estate. Etymology and language The name Crickhowell is an anglicised spelling that corresponds to the Welsh Crucywel. The name is derived from Crug Hywel, meaning 'Hywel's mound'. This is usually identified with the Iron Age hill fort on nearby Table Mountain, although this has the local name of Mynydd y Begwn. It may be that Crug Hywel refers to the castle mound in the town itself. The language of Crickhowell (and Llangynidr) was originally Welsh. In his 1893 book ''Wales and her language'', John E. Southall, reports that over 60% of the population of Crickhowell spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwood Stars RFC
Blackwood may refer to: Botany * African blackwood (''Dalbergia melanoxylon''), a timber tree of Africa * African blackwood (''Erythrophleum africanum''), (''Peltophorum africanum'') also Rhodesian blackwood, trees from Africa * Australian blackwood (''Senegalia modesta'' Syn.: ''Acacia modesta''), a tree from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Himalaya * Australian blackwood (''Diospyros longibracteata''), from Laos * Australian or Tasmanian, Paluma blackwood (''Acacia melanoxylon''), a tree of eastern Australia * Bombay, Malabar, Nilghiri or (East) Indian blackwood (''Dalbergia latifolia''), a timber tree of India * Burmese Blackwood (''Dalbergia cultrata'', ''Dalbergia oliveri''), trees from South China, Southeast Asia * Cape blackwood (''Diospyros whyteana''), Southern East and South Africa, (''Maytenus peduncularis''), from South Africa * Chinese blackwood, East African blackwood (''Dalbergia melanoxylon''), from Africa, India * Indian blackwood (''Hardwickia binata''), from India * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trefil RFC
Trefil is a small village in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, south Wales. It lies at the top of the Sirhowy Valley, near to Brecon Beacons National Park. It is three miles northwest of Tredegar. With one public house, The Top House, serving homemade food and drinks to local visitors. Etymology The village name may derive from the terms 'tref' and 'mil' signifying the 'farm of the lesser celandine', a plant which might be expected to grow in the stream which flows through the place, the Nant Trefil. Geography The village is sited in the bottom of a broad valley which cuts through the moorlands between the Heads of the Valleys Road and the Dyffryn Crawnon valley to the north. At above sea level, the Ordnance Survey recognise Trefil as the highest village in Wales. Trefil is served by a single cul-de-sac road which leaves the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road 1.5 miles to the south. The boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park lies one mile to the north of the village. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markham RFC
Markham may refer to: It may also refer to brand of of clothing which originates from South Africa which saw it's establishment in 1873. Biology * Markham's storm-petrel (''Oceanodroma markhami''), a seabird species found in Chile and Colombia * Markham's grass mouse (''Abrothrix olivaceus markhami''), a rodent subspecies found on Wellington Island and the nearby Southern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile * Ulmus americana 'Markham', an American elm cultivar Companies * Markham & Co., an ironworks and steelworks company near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England * Markham Vineyards, vineyards located in the city of St. Helena, California, United States People * Markham (surname) * Markham Baronets, two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Markham * Mrs Markham, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Penrose (1780-1837), an English writer * Robert Markham, a pseudonym created by Glidrose Publications in the mid-1960s to continue the ''James Bond'' book series Places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgeside RFC
Forge Side ( cy, Ger yr Efail) was the site of an ironworks started in 1836. The development was soon abandoned, but resumed in 1859. A settlement of houses was built for the workers. The rows of workers' cottages, a chapel, and a few other buildings are all that remain. The small village is 0.5 miles south-west of Blaenavon 0.5 miles south-east of Big Pit, and is in the community of Blaenavon, in the north of Torfaen county borough, in South east Wales. Development The Blaenavon Iron and Coal Company was formed in 1836, and purchased the Blaenavon Ironworks. The new managing director, James Ashwell James Ashwell (1799-1881) was an engineer and director, working in the coal, iron, and railway industries. In 1836 he helped in the formation of the Blaenavon Iron and Coal Company and was appointed resident managing director. Early life James ..., started to build a new ironworks, to be called Forgeside, on a pocket of freehold land, so that the new company would be free of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cefn Fforest RFC , a slate quarry near Cilgerran, Wales
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Cefn may refer to: Places * Cefn (community), in Wrexham county borough, Wales **Cefn Mawr, a large village in the community of Cefn *Cefn Cribwr, a village in Bridgend county borough, Wales * Cefn Fault, a geological fault in Wales * Cefn Glas, an area of Bridgend, Wales * Cefnllys or Cefn Llys, an abandoned ghost village, formerly a medieval castle town and borough, near Llandrindod Wells, Powys ** Cefnllys Castle Sport *Cefn Druids A.F.C., a football club based in Cefn Mawr, playing in the Cymru Alliance. *F.C. Cefn, a football club based in Cefn Mawr, playing in the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) Premier Division Other uses *Cefn quarry Cilgerran (previously Kilgerran or Cil-Garon) is both a village, a parish, and also a community, situated on the south bank of the River Teifi in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was formerly an incorporated market town. Among Cilgerran's attractions a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Rugby Union
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; cy, Undeb Rygbi Cymru) is the Sports governing body, governing body of rugby union in the country of Wales, recognised by the sport's international governing body, World Rugby. The WRU is responsible for the running of rugby in Wales, overseeing 320 member clubs, the Wales national rugby union team, Welsh national team and WRU National Leagues, National Leagues and Cups. The WRU is headed by the President (Gerald Davies), chairman (Ieuan Evans) and CEO Steve Phillips History The roots of the Welsh Rugby Union lay in the creation of the South Wales Football Club in September 1875; formed, "...with the intention of playing matches with the principal clubs in the West of England and the neighbourhood. The rugby rules will be the code adopted. The South Wales Football Club was superseded in 1878 by the South Wales Football Union in an attempt to bring greater regulation to the sport and to select representatives from club sides to represent the internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaina United RFC
Blaina ( cy, Blaenau ) is a small town, situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Brynmawr and Abertillery in the unitary authority of Blaenau Gwent, ancient parish of Aberystruth, preserved county of Gwent and historic county of Monmouthshire. The place name is derived from the Welsh word ' "uplands". As of 2011, the town has a population of 4,808. Welsh language According to the 2011 Census, 6.3% of the ward's 4,808 (303 residents) resident-population can speak, read, and write Welsh.Welsh language skills by electoral division, 2011 Census Retrieved 13/12/21 This is above the county's figure of 5.5% of 67,348 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
