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Rosebush, Pembrokeshire
Rosebush (Welsh: ''Rhos-y-bwlch'') is a small village in the Community (Wales), community of Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales, UK. It lies in the southern slopes of the Preseli Hills, about north west of the village of Maenclochog. Slate was extensively quarried nearby, and was exported by the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway, which was later extended towards Fishguard. Today, Rosebush is a centre for exploring the Preseli Hills. Rosebush is the highest village in Pembrokeshire, at 264m above sea level. Name The name Rosebush, an unusual name in the area, is assumed to be an Anglicisation of ''Rhos y Bwlch'' or ''Rhosbwlch'' (gap/pass moor), a geographically descriptive name typical of the area, being the moorland gap beneath the passes (Bwlch-gwynt and Bwlch Pennant) that lie between the peaks of Foel Eryr and Foel Cwmcerwyn. History Rosebush did not exist as a village before slate began to be quarried nearby in the early 19th century. Rosebush was not n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maenclochog
Maenclochog () is a village, parish and Community (Wales), community in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. It is also the name of Maenclochog (electoral ward), an electoral ward comprising a wider area of four surrounding communities. Maenclochog Community includes the small settlement of Llanycefn () and the village of Rosebush, Pembrokeshire, Rosebush. The Maenclochog community population was 731 in 2011. Maenclochog lies south of the Preseli Mountains, about one mile southeast of Rosebush on the B4313 Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Narberth to Fishguard road. Origin of the name The origin of the name Maenclochog is unclear. It appears to be made up of two Welsh words, ''maen'' ("stone") and ''clochog'' ("noisy, clamorous"). A local tale reports that there were stones near Ffynnon Fair ("Mary's Well"), to the south of the village, which rang like bells when struck, but these were blown up by treasure-hunters, in the mistaken belief that they concealed a golden treasure. This may repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Pembrokeshire And Fishguard Railway
The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a railway company in south-west Wales, incorporated to extend the moribund Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway, with a view to developing a port on Fishguard Bay and ferry services to Rosslare in Ireland. The Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway had been opened in 1876 to connect slate quarries at Rosebush with the main line of the Great Western Railway; it also carried passengers and general merchandise, and the line had an exceptionally steep gradient. The line was not profitable and closed in 1882. The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was promoted in 1884, planned to build from Rosebush to Goodwick, on Fishguard Bay. At this time the Great Western Railway operated a ferry service to Ireland from Neyland (New Milford) and the NP&FR boldly sought to challenge this with a shorter crossing to Rosslare. The proprietors were to improve the harbour at Rosslare as well, and planned to work collaboratively with the Narberth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Owain Evans (; born 22 July 1967), known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. He has portrayed roles in ''Notting Hill'' (1999), '' Kevin & Perry Go Large'' (2000), and '' Enduring Love'' (2004), in addition to Xenophilius Lovegood in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' (2010), Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012) and '' Spider-Man: No Way Home'' (2021), and Grigori Rasputin in ''The King's Man'' (2021). His television roles include Hector DeJean in the Epix thriller series '' Berlin Station'', Mycroft Holmes in the CBS series '' Elementary'', and Otto Hightower in the HBO fantasy series ''House of the Dragon''. Ifans was also formerly the frontman of the rock bands The Peth and Super Furry Animals. Early life Ifans was born Rhys Owain Evans''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com in Haverfordwest on 22 July 1967, the son of nursery school teacher Beti-Wyn (née Davies) and primary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tafarn Sinc
Tafarn Sinc (''Zinc Tavern'') is a pub in Rosebush, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The building is constructed of corrugated metal Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or ..., which was commonly used in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain for industrial buildings, but is rare for pubs. Opened in 1876 or 1877, it originally served the adjacent Rosebush railway station on the Maenclochog Railway, which opened in 1876. Both were built as part of the development of a local slate quarry by businessman Edward Cropper. The railway station closed to passengers in 1937 but the pub stayed in business. In 2017, after the owners decided to sell, it was Asset-based community development, bought by a community group of local residents and other shareholders. The scheme was pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Y Tafarn Sinc - Geograph
Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or seventh if including W) vowel letter of the English alphabet. Its name in English is ''wye'' (pronounced ), plural ''wyes''. In the English writing system, it mostly represents a vowel and seldom a consonant, and in other orthographies it may represent a vowel or a consonant. Name In Latin, Y was named ''I graeca'' ("Greek I"), since the classical Greek sound , similar to modern German ''ü'' or French ''u'', was not a native sound for Latin speakers, and the letter was initially only used to spell foreign words. This history has led to the standard modern names of the letter in Romance languages – ''i grego'' in Galician, ''i grega'' in Catalan, ''i grec'' in French and Romanian, and ''i greca'' in Italian – all meaning "Greek I". The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a History of rail transport in Great Britain, British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who chose a broad gauge of —later slightly widened to —but, from 1854, a series of Consolidation (business), amalgamations saw it also operate Standard gauge, standard-gauge trains; the last broad-gauge services were operated in 1892. The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally merged at the end of 1947 when it was Nationalization, nationalised and became the Western Region of British Railways. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive website provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library's Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letterston
Letterston () is a parish and local government community in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. Situated on the A40, Haverfordwest is to the south and Fishguard is to the north. The name is derived from the medieval owners of the parish, the Lettard family. History Twelve men of the parish died in World War 1 and six in World War 2; their names are commemorated on the War Memorial at the parish church of St Giles. Governance An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south west to Hayscastle. The total ward population taken at the 2011 Census was 2,352. Demographics Letterston's population was 1,245, according to the 2011 census; a 24.75 per cent increase since the 998 people noted in 2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan .... The 2011 census ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clunderwen Railway Station
Clunderwen railway station serves the village of Clynderwen () in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The station is unstaffed and is a request stop. History The South Wales Railway was extended from to on 2 January 1854, and among the original stations was one known as ''Narberth Road for Cardigan and Tenby''; this was simplified to ''Narberth Road for Cardigan'' in 1863. The station was renamed ''Clynderwen'' on 1 December 1875, being named after the Clynderwen Estate, which included property in the area around the station; a previous suggestion to use the parish name ''Llandisilio'' was rejected. The Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway (NR&MR) opened in 1876, the junction of that line being to the west of Clynderwen station; and the NR&MR trains to used a bay at the eastern end of the up side of the station. Initially trains had to reverse in and out of the platform, but with the extension of the Rosebush line to by the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway (NP&FR) in 1895 (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llangolman
Llangolman () is a village and parish in the southeastern Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is part of the Community (Wales), community of Mynachlog-ddu. There are prehistoric remains nearby and the parish has a history of slate and clay quarrying. History Llangolman lies in a historic landscape near the upper part of the valley of the Eastern River Cleddau, Cleddau and its tributaries. The village place name derives from the church dedicated to St. Golman, or in Irish, St Colman. Colman is attributed to Colmán of Dromore, a 6th-century saint. On old maps, one will often see the east-west road from Llangolman to Maenclochog via Llandilo, marked as a Roman road. This is the so-called Via Julia that was proposed by a number of 18th- and 19th-century antiquaries and was based on a 1757 forged document by Charles Bertram called The Description of Britain. As a result, it is doubtful that the road is actually Roman. Instead, the Via Julia is now considered to be much fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. The classification schemes differ between England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (see sections below). The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000, although the statutory term in Ireland is "Record of Protected Structures, protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
