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Taff’s Well railway station was called Walnut Tree Junction from 1858, and now the name has been revived by a café. The southern area of Taff’s Well was known as Walnut Tree long before …
[More]King Offa is one of the most familiar rulers of his time in Britain, thanks to the dyke he built along the western edge of his kingdom and - since 1971 - the popular Offa's Dyke Path. But nobody knows why a coin with his insignia, Arabic calligraphy ...
[More]The Church of England's barring of Simon Lloyd from a curacy near Bala inadvertently put rocket boosters under the growth of Welsh Methodism. Simon lived at Plas-yn-Dre, once Bala's biggest building, and became an Anglican priest but his leanings ...
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