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Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire
Pen-y-groes is a village in Carmarthenshire, South Wales which developed as a settlement as a result of the anthracite coal trade. The main colliery was the Emlyn colliery, which opened in 1893 and closed in 1939. Ysgol Gynradd Penygroes is the only school in the village. As of 2024, it has 167 pupils.https://mylocalschool.gov.wales/School/6692193?lang=en The village is also home to a Rugby Union club, affiliated to the Welsh Rugby Union, a cricket team which plays in the Carmarthenshire League, and a football team that plays in the Carmarthenshire League. It is named after Penygroes Independent Chapel, a large building at the centre of the village. There is also a Baptist chapel, Calfaria, founded in 1896. The village was well known as the headquarters of the Apostolic Church. The denomination hosted their International Convention in the village every year from 1916 to 2002. The church moved its main office to Swansea Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire (; or informally ') is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as the "Garden of Wales" and is also home to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Carmarthenshire has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The county town was founded by the Romans, and the region was part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth in the High Middle Ages. After invasion by the Normans in the 12th and 13th centuries it was Conquest of Wales by Edward I, subjugated, along with other parts of Wales, by Edward I of England. There was further unrest in the early 15th century, when the Welsh rebelled under Owain Glyndŵr, and during the English Civil War. Carmarthenshire is mainly an agricultural county, apart from the southeastern part which was once heavily industrialised with coal mining, steel-making and tin-pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Wales
South Wales ( ) is a Regions of Wales, loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the Historic counties of Wales, historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards to include Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. In the western extent, from Swansea westwards, local people would probably recognise that they lived in both south Wales and west Wales. The Brecon Beacons National Park covers about a third of south Wales, containing Pen y Fan, the highest British mountain south of Cadair Idris in Snowdonia. A point of some discussion is whether the first element of the name should be capitalised: 'south Wales' or 'South Wales'. As the name is a geographical expression rather than a specific area with well-defined borders, style guides such as those of the BBC and ''The Guardian'' use the form 'south Wales'. In a more authoritative style guide, the Wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Rugby Union
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; ) is the 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 Welsh national team and National Leagues and Cups. The WRU is headed by the President ( Terry Cobner), chairman (Richard Collier-Keywood) and CEO ( Abi Tierney). History The roots of the Welsh Rugby Union lay in the creation of the South Wales Football Union (SWFU) 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 international game. The SWFU though were poorly organised, and although they arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmarthenshire League
The Carmarthenshire League (currently the ''LTC Mobility Carmarthenshire Association Football League'') is a football (soccer), football league in Carmarthenshire, West Wales, sitting at the fifth, sixth and seventh levels of the Welsh football league system. The Carmarthenshire League is run by the West Wales Football Association. Teams promoted from the Premier Division may enter the West Wales Premier League if standards and facilities fall into line with the regulations of the Welsh Football League. History The league has its origins in the Llanelly & District League. In 1931 the league renamed to the Llanelly & Carmarthenshire League, and a year later it adopted its current name. Former league clubs who have played in higher level leagues Welsh Football League The following teams from the league went on to play in the Welsh Football League: * Garden Village A.F.C., Garden Village * Porth Tywyn Suburbs A.F.C., Porth Tywyn Suburbs West Wales Premier League * CK Swiss Valley A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calfaria, Penygroes
Calfaria is a Baptist chapel in the village of Penygroes in the community of Llandybie, near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. Services at Calfaria were conducted in the Welsh language until recently but are now bilingual. History Calfaria was founded in 1896 by Baptists Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches ge ... who worshipped at other chapels in the vicinity and miners who had migrated to the areas to work at the Emlyn and Caerbryn collieries. They originally met in each other's homes and then in a small ramshackle building, later known as the (Old Band Shed). The small congregation grew rapidly, and a minister, the Rev Job Herbert, was installed two years before the chapel was built. Herbert remained minister for forty years. He was succeeded by Handel Turner (1942–46), E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolic Church (1916 Denomination)
The Apostolic Church is an international Christian denomination and Pentecostalism, Pentecostal movement that emerged from the 1904–1905 Welsh revival, Welsh Revival of 1904–1905. Although the movement began in the United Kingdom, the largest national Apostolic Church became the Apostolic Church Nigeria. The term "Apostolic" refers to the role of apostles in the denomination's church government, as well as a desire to emulate Apostolic Age, 1st century Christianity in its faith, practices, and government. History Beginning The earliest historians of the Apostolic Church date its beginnings to 1911, when three groups of people in three locations in the village of Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire, Penygroes received the Pentecost, Pentecostal baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Apostolic Church had adopted a Presbyterian polity, system of presbyteries to govern the church collegially. While Minister (Christianity), ministers were ordained as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea
Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, twenty-eighth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in south-west Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay (region), Swansea Bay region and part of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most List of Welsh principal areas by population, populous local authority area in Wales, with an estimated population of in . Swansea, along with Neath and Port Talbot, forms the Swansea urban area, with a population of 300,352 in 2011. It is also part of the Swansea Bay City Region. During the 19th-century industrial heyday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eirwyn Morgan
David Eirwyn Morgan ( ; 23 April 1918 – 30 August 1982) was a minister, journalist and Welsh nationalist politician. Born in Pen-y-groes in Carmarthenshire, Morgan began preaching at an early age in the Baptist chapel in nearby Saron, in the parish of Llandybie. He studied at the Amman Valley Grammar School in Ammanford, where he befriended David Rees Griffiths, the school caretaker, who introduced him to Welsh literature. Morgan won a scholarship to the University College of Swansea and graduated with a degree in Welsh, then studied theology at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and finally the Baptist College in London. He was subsequently ordained and attached to a parish in Pisgah. During this time, he became active in Plaid Cymru, and stood unsuccessfully for the party in Llanelli at the 1950, 1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
