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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 ...

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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QRs for deaf pioneer's story

Jan 28, 2023

Dorothy Miles, a pioneer of sign language in arts, education and broadcasting, died 30 years ago. Now HistoryPoints has placed QR codes outside her childhood home in Rhyl so that anyone can use their smartphone to discover her remarkable ...

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Capel Curig's bounty

Jan 21, 2023

Centuries before the Levelling Up Fund and other grants for under-privileged areas, Queen Anne set up a bounty scheme to enable poor clergymen to receive steady incomes. Capel Curig's churchwardens successfully applied in 1740 and acquired Bryntyrch ...

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Whale-bone cutting in Pembs

Jan 13, 2023

The diary of Abiel Folger, one of the American settlers who developed Milford Haven, records that her husband Timothy cut whale bone in his last years. A relative of Benjamin Franklin, he was a whaling-ship captain but was ostracised in Nantucket for ...

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