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Aug 4, 2023

Napoleon's Anglesey marble

The Napoleonic wars aided the Mona Marble quarry at Rhoscolyn, Anglesey, as foreign marble was hard to obtain. The quarry's owner got another boost after Waterloo when he made furniture for Napoleon's home in exile on ...

St Helena - including a table inlaid with Mona Marble. The table is still in his former house today. For more about the quarry and its beautiful marble, use your smartphone to scan the HistoryPoints QR codes on the Wales Coast Path marker post at Rhyd-y-bont Fach, Rhoscolyn, or click here

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King Offa's Islamic coin

Sep 8, 2024

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 ...

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Fateful Bala curacy ban

Sep 2, 2024

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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Prehistoric child's footprints

Aug 25, 2024

More than 6,000 years ago, a child and two adults walked across the salt marsh at what's now Uskmouth, Newport, leaving footprints which were discovered in 1986. Now you can scan HistoryPoints QR codes by the Wales Coast Path to see a photo of the footprints ...

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