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Mar 22, 2012

Pen yr hell do you say that?

Pen yr Helgi Du and Pen Llithrig y Wrach aren't the easiest mountain names to pronounce, unless ...

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Posted by: RhodriClark

you speak Welsh - or unless you go to this page on HistoryPoints.org. We've identified the peaks you can see from Conwy Mountain and walkers with smartphones will be able to hear, on the spot, the trickiest names pronounced.

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HistoryPoints website update

May 16, 2022

Regular readers may notice that our website has been updated. The main difference is that our pages now load in a more convenient format on smartphones. On desktops or laptops the menu continues to appear on the left, while on ...

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Pupil punishes teacher in Dinorwig

May 12, 2022

A teacher at the British School in Dinorwig got more than he bargained for when he took part in a snowball fight between boys from two villages. A past pupil recalled in 1918 that the teacher had started to beat him as punishment for another boy's foul ...

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Antiquities at Eglwys Gymyn

May 6, 2022

A visit to Eglwys Gymyn, near Pendine, Carmarthenshire, is like stepping back into early Christianity, and now you can scan HistoryPoints QR codes at the churchyard entrance for a handy guide to such features as a stone inscribed with Ogham and Latin, an ...

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