In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth was finally lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones and Michael Palin alongside mayor Sue Jones-Davies ( who portrayed Judith Iscariot in the film ).

Aberystwyth Town of the Principality Welsh Premier League supporters sing a version of the song, ' We all follow the Aber, over land and sea and Bangor!

Then there is the poet, teacher, and critic Jeremy Hooker ( born 1941 ), who taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1965 – 84 and became deeply involved in writing about and teaching Welsh writing in English during this time, though he wrote only a few poems with Welsh subject matter.

Her Welsh gold wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was purchased in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.

Ankst was a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams.

On 3 January 1863 the standard gauge Newtown and Machynlleth Railway opened, followed on 1 July of the same year by the line from Machynlleth to Borth of the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway.

The standard gauge Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway was expanding rapidly from its base at Machynlleth, however, and in 1863 had reached Tywyn, so McConnel decided to build his line from the quarry to Tywyn, as the nearest point where slate could be transferred to the standard gauge railway.

He is an Honourary Fellow of the University of Wales, Newport, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Aberystwyth University and Swansea Metropolitan University, and has been awarded the James Joyce Award by University College Dublin.

Despite this early setback Bangor ended the 2008 – 09 season with yet more silverware as they retained the Welsh Cup by defeating Aberystwyth Town 2 – 0 in a match held at Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli.

They claimed big scalps on the way to the semis by defeating teams away from home such as Connahs Quay Nomads and Welsh Premier League teams Prestatyn Town and Aberystwyth Town.

In 1989 they battled through to the semi-finals of the Welsh Intermediate Cup ( losing to Aberystwyth Town ) and their successes during the decade were enough for them to be invited into the newly formed Cymru Alliance in 1990 and thence the League of Wales in 1992.

It runs a highly rated research centre, the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies ( incorporating the Welsh Dictionary Unit ), which is adjacent to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

Porthmadog's role as a commercial port, already reduced by the opening of the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway in 1867, was effectively ended by the First World War, when the lucrative German market for slate disappeared.

" Since 2004, Welsh Government civil servants have been relocated across Wales as part of the Location Strategy, which involves the creation of new offices at Merthyr Tydfil, Aberystwyth and Llandudno Junction.

The club was one of the founder members of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881 but, following trouble at a match against the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1933, were reprimanded from the union.

At the University of College Wales, Aberystwyth, he gained a BA in Welsh in 1985.

* Private detective Louie Knight moves into an office at 22 / 1B Stryd-y-Popty ( which translates as Baker Street in Welsh ) in Malcolm Pryce's Welsh Noir parody The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth, ISBN 978-0-7475-7894-9.

Below these third tier leagues are even more localised leagues: in Central Wales there are four leagues feeding into the Mid Wales League ( covering Ceredigion, Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales South, and Aberystwyth areas respectively ), while below the Welsh Alliance there are the Gwynedd League and the Clwyd League and these even have feeder leagues of their own such as the Anglesey League.

In 1807 a turnpike road was built from Tremadog to Porthdinllaen, which was intended to be the main port for traffic to Ireland ; and with the construction of the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway in 1868, the town began to develop as a Victorian seaside resort.

The main library at Aberystwyth University is named after Hugh Owen, as is Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, a secondary school in Caernarfon (' ysgol ' is the Welsh word for school ).

The National Library of Wales (), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales ; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

Much of the coast surrounding the bay is fertile farmland, dotted with towns and seaside resorts such as Fishguard, New Quay, Aberaeron, Llanon, Aberystwyth, Borth, Aberdyfi, Tywyn, Barmouth, Porthmadog and Pwllheli on the Cambrian Coast.

In January 1978 two farewell railtours were run – 24082 and 24087 hauled the Merseyside Express from London St Pancras to Liverpool and return on the 14th, and 24087 and 24133 hauled the Cambrian Coast Express from Birmingham to Aberystwyth and Barmouth on the 28th.

* Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway: 26 July 1861 ; 1863 – 69

The line diverges at Dovey Junction, just after Machynlleth, to serve either Aberystwyth, or Pwllheli via the Cambrian Coast Line.

Their most prestigious working was the Cambrian Coast Express, where a Manor took over from a King or Castle at Shrewsbury and worked through to Aberystwyth.

It is the junction where the line splits into the line to Aberystwyth and the Cambrian Coast Line to Pwllheli.

Passengers use platform 1 for services to Pwllheli via the Cambrian Coast Line or Birmingham International via Birmingham New Street, and platform 2 for services to Aberystwyth via Borth, or Birmingham International via Birmingham New Street.

The bridge was built by the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway and opened in 1867.

The original station was built in 1869 by the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway, one of the constituent companies of the Cambrian Railways.

In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing, some objects were evacuated to a Postal Tube Railway at Holborn, the National Library of Wales ( Aberystwyth ) and a country house near Malvern.

There is a pub called Lord Beechings at the end of the Cambrian Railway at Aberystwyth, which until its refurbishment by SA Brain & Company Ltd was decorated with various railway memorabilia, in particular regarding the Aberystwyth-London and Aberystwyth-Carmarthen service, which he axed.

opened on 7 July 1892 to great fanfare and the proclamation of a public holiday, the line is one of four funicular railways in the UK built to the same basic design ( the others were the Clifton Rocks Railway in Bristol ; the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway in Devon ; and the Constitution Hill Railway in Aberystwyth, Wales ).

Machynlleth main-line station was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, and continues to provide a link to Aberystwyth and the Cambrian coast to the west and Newtown and Shrewsbury to the east.

The Kington and Eardisley Railway developed an extension to the Leominster and Kington Railway from Kington, with ambitions to extend a cross-Wales railway line to Aberystwyth.

Devil's Bridge is served by Devil's Bridge railway station on the historic narrow-gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway, which opened between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in 1902.

In the latter area, particularly on the Ex-Cambrian Railway lines, Class 24s and the similar Class 25s were the only diesel types to be found, and crews from Aberystwyth shed were only trained on these types.

The Aberystwyth Cliff Railway () is a funicular railway in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales.

Between Devil's Bridge and Aberystwyth runs a narrow-gauge steam railway-the Vale of Rheidol Railway.

The Vale of Rheidol Railway () is a narrow-gauge gauge heritage railway that runs for between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

A narrow gauge railway in the area of Aberystwyth was first proposed after the initial route planned for the Manchester and Milford Railway, from Llanidloes to Aberystwyth via Devil's Bridge, was altered, and then abandoned, before construction started.

The line is one of four funicular railways in the UK built to the same basic design ( the others were the Clifton Rocks Railway in Bristol ; the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway in Devon ; and the Constitution Hill Railway in Aberystwyth, Wales ).