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Russian, our seventh language
to the hard work of several volunteer translators, we can now offer visitors at least some information about HiPoints in seven languages including русский, Français, Español, Português and Deutsch
to the hard work of several volunteer translators, we can now offer visitors at least some information about HiPoints in seven languages including русский, Français, Español, Português and Deutsch
During a smallpox outbreak in the Cwmbrân area in 1876, several parents were charged with not allowing the local doctor to vaccinate their children at his home, Cwmbrân House. One mother said the house, at Five Locks, was too far from the family home …
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As you visit the peaceful, wooded setting of the Llangollen Canal at Pentrefelin you can now scan HistoryPoints QR codes to discover how the wharf there was still in industrial use when one of its cranes collapsed in 1877. The crane was loading slate slabs ...
[More]Fortune's Frolic is the puzzling name of a riverside footpath in Haverfordwest. Now you can scan HistoryPoints QR codes there to discover how a man named Samuel Fortune was found in scandalous circumstances on the path and challenged to a duel, in ...
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