1885–86 Welsh Cup
The 1885–86 FAW Welsh Cup was the ninth edition of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales. First round Replays Second round Replays Third round Replays Semifinals Replays Final References Bibliography * Notes * ''The History of the Welsh Cup 1877-1993'' by Ian Garland (1991) Welsh Football Data Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:1885-86 Welsh Cup 1885–86 Welsh Cup, Welsh Cup seasons 1885–86 in Welsh football cups, Cup ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Druids F
A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. The druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors. Druids left no written accounts. While they were reported to have been literate, they are believed to have been prevented by doctrine from recording their knowledge in written form. Their beliefs and practices are attested in some detail by their contemporaries from other cultures, such as the Romans and the Greeks. The earliest known references to the druids date to the 4th century BC. The oldest detailed description comes from Julius Caesar's ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'' (50s BC). They were described by other Roman writers such as Cicero, Cicero (44) I.XVI.90. Tacitus, and Pliny the Elder. Following the Roman invasion of Gaul, the druid orders were suppressed by the Roman government under the 1st-century AD emperors Tiberius and Claudius, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wem White Stars F
Wem may refer to: * HMS ''Wem'' (1919), a WWI Royal Navy minesweeper *Weem, a village in Perthshire, Scotland *Wem, a small town in Shropshire, England *Wem (musician), hip hop musician WEM may stand for: * County Westmeath, Ireland, Chapman code *Watkins Electric Music, a British manufacturer of musical instruments *Wells Regional Transportation Center, code of a train station in Maine, US *West Edmonton Mall West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is a large shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that is owned, managed, and operated by Triple Five Group. It is the second most visited mall in Canada, after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Met ..., Alberta, Canada * Wwise Encoded Media, a file format by Audiokinetic Wwise. {{disambig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Racecourse Ground
The Racecourse Ground (), is a football stadium in Wrexham, Wales. It is the home of Wrexham A.F.C., Wrexham AFC. It is the largest stadium in North Wales and the List of football stadiums in Wales, fifth-largest in Wales. It is the world's oldest international football stadium still hosting international matches, having been the venue for Wales' first home international match in 1877, Wales national football team home stadium, and has hosted more Wales international matches than any other ground. It is still one of the stadiums used by the Football Association of Wales for home international games. The ground has also been used by North Wales Crusaders rugby league club, Scarlets rugby union club and Liverpool F.C. Reserves, Liverpool Reserves. In the early days, the ground was used for cricket and horse racing. It also occasionally hosts concerts. A sponsorship deal with STōK Cold Brew Coffee came into effect on 1 July 2023; as a result, the stadium is sometimes referred ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Llanfyllin
Llanfyllin ( – ) is a market town and Community (Wales), community in Powys, Wales. The community (which measures 41.8 square kilometres) population in 2021 was 1,586 and the town's name means ''church or parish'' (Llan (placename), llan) ''of St Myllin'' ('m' frequently Consonant mutation, mutates to 'f' in Welsh). The community includes the settlements of Bodfach, Ty Crwyn, Abernaint and several farms. Geography The town lies in the valley of the River Cain near the Berwyn Mountains in Montgomeryshire, southwest of Oswestry and from Montgomery, Powys, Montgomery. The River Cain is joined by the small River Abel in Llanfyllin (presumably named after Cain and Abel in the Bible), and meanders through the valley, flowing into the River Vyrnwy at Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, Llansantffraid. History The town lies between Shrewsbury and Bala, Gwynedd, Bala, for a long time the key market towns in this area of Wales and the Welsh borders. At nearby Bodyddon there is evidence of an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rhostyllen Victoria F
Rhostyllen () is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, south-west of the city of Wrexham. At the time of the 2001 census, area Wrexham 014A, which includes Rhostyllen itself, had a population of 1,383 in 599 households.Wrexham 014A Key Figures Office for National Statistics Etymology Its name may be derived from the Welsh words ''rhos'' ("moor", or " rush pasture") and ''estyll'' ("staves" or "planks").History Rhostyllen was a part of the old[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bangor City F
Bangor may refer to: Places Australia * Bangor, New South Wales * Bangor, Tasmania Canada * Bangor, Nova Scotia * Bangor, Saskatchewan * Bangor, Prince Edward Island United Kingdom Northern Ireland * Bangor, County Down ** Bangor railway station (Northern Ireland) ** Bangor (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Bangor's former constituency in the Parliament of Northern Ireland ** Bangor (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Bangor's former constituency in the Parliament of Ireland ** Bangor (civil parish) Wales * Bangor, Gwynedd ** Bangor railway station (Wales) * Bangor Mountain, Gwynedd * Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham United States * Bangor, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Bangor, California, a census-designated place * Bangor, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Bangor, Maine, a city ** Bangor Air National Guard Base ** Bangor International Airport * Bangor, Michigan, a city ** Bangor (Amtrak station) * Bangor Township, Van Buren County, Michigan * Bang ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rhyl F
Rhyl (; , ) is a seaside town and community (Wales), community in Denbighshire in Wales. The town lies on the coast of North Wales, at the mouth of the River Clwyd. To the west is Kinmel Bay and Towyn, to the east Prestatyn, and to the south-east Rhuddlan and St Asaph. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census, Rhyl had a population of 25,149, with Rhyl–Kinmel Bay having 31,229. Rhyl forms a conurbation with Prestatyn and its two outlying villages, the Rhyl/Prestatyn Built-up area, whose 2011 population of 46,267 makes it North Wales's most populous non-city. Rhyl was once an elegant Victorian era, Victorian resort town, but suffered rapid decline around the 1990s and 2000s; attempts have been made to reverse this through county investment, equal to around £15 million from Denbighshire County, however, the outcomes have been perceived with varying levels of success. Prior to being in Denbighshire since 1996, it was in the Clwyd district of Rhuddlan (district), Rhuddl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Carnarvon Athletic F
Carnarvon and Caernarvon are forms of the name Caernarfon which are no longer used for the town in north Wales, but remain in use in other contexts. The first two forms are in English orthography and the third is the Welsh spelling, adopted in English since the 1970s. Most places and things named after Caernarfon use one of the former spellings. Places Australia ;Queensland * Carnarvon Range * Carnarvon Highway, state highway * Carnarvon National Park ** Carnarvon Gorge * Carnarvon Park, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands Region * Carnarvon Station Reserve ;South Australia *County of Carnarvon (South Australia), a cadastral unit of land administration on Kangaroo Island ;Western Australia * Carnarvon (biogeographic region), IBRA region * Carnarvon, Western Australia, coastal town ** Carnarvon Airport (Australia) * Carnarvon County, Western Australia * Carnarvon Range (Western Australia) * Carnarvon Tracking Station * Carnarvon xeric shrublands, deserts and xeric ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Porthmadog F
Porthmadog (), originally Portmadoc until 1972 and known locally as "Port", is a coastal town and community (Wales), community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, Wales, and the historic counties of Wales, historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north of Dolgellau and south of Caernarfon. The community population was 4,185 in the 2011 census and was put at 4,134 in 2019. It grew in the 19th century as a port for local slate, but as the trade declined, it continued as a shopping and tourism centre, being close to Snowdonia, Snowdonia National Park and the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held there. It includes nearby Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and Tremadog. History Porthmadog came about after William Madocks built a sea wall, the Cob, in 1808–1811 to reclaim much of Traeth Mawr from the sea for farming use. Diversion of the River Glaslyn, Afon Glaslyn caused it to scour out a new natural harbour deep ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hartford St John's F
Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area with 1.17 million residents. Founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the country's oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper (the ''Hartford Courant''), the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School), and the oldest school for deaf children (American School for the Deaf), founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in 1817. It is the location of the Mark Twain House, in which the author Mark Twain wrote his most famous ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Crewe Alexandra F
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 55,318 and the built-up area had a population of 74,120. Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works; for many years, it was a major railway engineering facility for manufacturing and overhauling locomotives, but is now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002, it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car production. The Pyms Lane factory on the west of the town now exclusively produces Bentley motor cars. Crewe is north-west of London, south of Manchester city centre and south-east of Liverpool city centre. History Medieval The name derives from an Old Welsh word ''criu'', meaning 'weir' or 'crossing'. The earliest record is in the Domesday Book, where it is written as ''Creu''. The original settlement of Crewe lies to the east of the modern town and was historically a t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Northwich Victoria F
Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers River Weaver, Weaver and River Dane, Dane, east of Chester, south of Warrington and south of Manchester. The population of the parish was 22,726 at the 2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses, 2021 census. The area around Northwich was exploited for its salt pan (evaporation), salt pans by the Roman Britain, Romans, when the settlement was known as History of Northwich, ''Condate''. The town had been severely affected by salt mining and subsidence was historically a significant problem. Mine stabilisation work was completed in 2007. History Early history During Roman Britain, Roman times, Northwich was known as ''Condate'', thought to be a Latinisation of names, Latinisation of a Common Brittonic, Brittonic Celtic placenames, name meaning "Confluence". There are Condate (other), several other sites of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |