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Abergavenny Thursdays Football Club is a Welsh football team, a founder member of the League of Wales, but now playing in the Gwent County League Division 3.
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Abergavenny and Thursdays
Abergavenny is the home of Abergavenny Thursdays F. C., which was formed in 1927, and is currently a member of the Gwent County League Division 3.
* Biggest League of Wales win: 6-0 v. Abergavenny Thursdays in 1993.
Their nickname is either ' The Thursdays ', or either ' The Butchers ' ( due to Abergavenny's famous cattle market and resultant meat markets ) or ' The Pennies ', as the ground is situated in a part of the town known as Pen-y-pound and cockney rhyming slang for a penny is ' an Abergavenny '.
A new manager and assistant were appointed and Abergavenny Thursdays started the new campaign on time, though losing 1-0 at home to Bangor City in their first match.
In the course of five seasons, Abergavenny Thursdays suffered four relegations and conceded 675 league goals.
Abergavenny Thursdays ended the 2004-05 Gwent County League Division Three campaign in fifth place, and finished tenth the following season ; although the 2005-06 season was seen as a disappointment as Thursdays had led the table in the autumn, but finished much lower in the final table due to a dismal second half of the season.
* Abergavenny Thursdays website
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* Biggest League of Wales win: 9-0 v Abergavenny Thursdays in 1993 and v Haverfordwest County in 1994.
* 1951-Cwmparc ( Western Division ) / Abergavenny Thursdays ( Eastern Division )
* Abergavenny Thursdays F. C., a Welsh football club
Abergavenny and Club
Abergavenny Cricket Club play at Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road, and Glamorgan CCC also play some of their games here.
Abergavenny Cricket Club is one of the oldest in the country and celebrated the 175th anniversary of its foundation in 2009.
Abergavenny Tennis Club also play at Pen-y-Pound and plays in the South Wales Doubles League and Aegon Team Tennis.
Abergavenny Hockey Club, formed in 1897, currently compete in the Davis Woods hockey league and play at the Old Hereford Road ground.
Abergavenny and is
Abergavenny (), meaning Mouth of the River Gavenny, is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Abergavenny is promoted as the " Gateway to Wales ".
In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.
Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).
Abergavenny railway station opened 2 January 1854 and is on the Welsh Marches Line.
It is also home to the Abergavenny Welsh society, Cymreigyddion y Fenni, and the local Abergavenny Eisteddfod.
Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.
Today the market is leased and operated by Abergavenny Market Auctioneers Ltd., who hold regular livestock auctions on the site.
Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.
* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.
* In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Abergavenny is mentioned by Stan Shunpike, the conductor of the Knight Bus when the bus takes a detour there to drop off a passenger.
* Malcolm Nash the cricketer famous for bowling to Gary Sobers who hit six sixes off one Nash over ( 36 runs ) is from Abergavenny.
* Abergavenny Castle is seized by the Welsh.
It is about southwest of Hereford, just south of the A465 road to Abergavenny, and about from the border with Wales.
The Abergavenny Arms is a public house that has run in the village for a very long time under many managements.
It is 486 m high and lies just outside Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, about 10 miles from the English border.
The section between Abergavenny and Brecon has one of the highest points of the A40 which is above sea level and is located at Bwlch, which is Welsh for ' mountain pass '.
Abergavenny and Welsh
The river later became, in Welsh, Gafenni, and the town's name became Abergavenny, meaning " mouth of ( Welsh: Aber ) the Gavenny ( Gafenni )".
In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.
Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.
In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.
* The Massacre of Abergavenny ends with several Welsh noblemen dead at the orders of William de Braose.
Born near Abergavenny, Williams continued the earlier tradition of writing from a left-wing perspective on the Welsh industrial scene in his trilogy " Border Country " ( 1960 ), " Second Generation " ( 1964 ), and " The Fight for Manod " ( 1979 ).
During the Welsh Revolt in 1402 Rhys Gethin, General for Owain Glyndŵr, took Caerleon Castle together with those of Newport, Cardiff, Llandaff, Abergavenny, Caerphilly and Usk by force.
* William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber ( 1140 / 1150 – 1211 ) infamous for the Christmas Day Massacre of Welsh Princes at Abergavenny Castle in 1175
By his marriage he increased the Braose Welsh holdings to include Brecon and Abergavenny.
King Henry withdrew his favour from the family after William's son organised the murder of Seisyll ap Dyfnwal and other Welsh princes at Abergavenny in 1176.
In 1175, William de Braose carried out the Abergavenny Massacre, luring three Welsh princes and other Welsh leaders to their deaths.
After having invited the Welsh leaders to a Christmas feast at Abergavenny Castle under the pretence of peace and the start of a new era at the end of the year ( a traditional time for settling outstanding differences amongst the Welsh ), he had them murdered by his men.
This resulted in great hostility against him among the Welsh, who named him the " Ogre of Abergavenny ".
This in turn aroused the anger of Llywelyn the Great who had an understanding with Giles de Braose and the seeming duplicity caused the Welsh to attack de Braose lands in Brecon and Abergavenny and Gower.
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