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Bridgend (;, meaning " Head of the Bridge on the Ogmore ") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital, Cardiff.
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Bridgend and meaning
Pencoed ( pronounced " Pen-coyd ", in English meaning ' end or head of the wood '), is a town in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom, mid-way between Wales's two largest cities of Cardiff and Swansea.
Bridgend and Bridge
Bridgend has its own commercial radio station: 106. 3 Bridge FM, and is the location of Internet based radio station Celtica radio.
Bridgend and on
Gould was the most capped Welsh centre until Steve Fenwick of Bridgend beat the record at Lansdowne Road on 15 March 1980.
Bridgend itself developed at a ford on the River Ogmore, which was on the main route between east and west Wales.
The discovery of coal in the South Wales Valleys north of Bridgend would have a massive impact on the town.
Two major multinational corporations, the Ford Motor Company and Sony set up factories in, or on the outskirts of the new Bridgend Industrial Estate ( former Waterton Arsenal ).
The store was opened on 31 March 2008 by the local MP, and players from Bridgend Ravens.
There are out-of-town shopping areas at Waterton, near the A473, on Cowbridge Road and at The Derwen, Junction 36 of the M4, home to the Bridgend Designer Outlet.
Wildmill railway station, approximately north of Bridgend railway station serves the estates of Wildmill, Pendre and Litchard and is on the Bridgend-Maesteg branch line.
Bridgend is on the National Cycle Route and there are off-road spurs from the Celtic Trail to the town centre and a community route in the Ogmore Valley.
It offers a range of higher education courses such as PGCE, Higher National Certificate and Higher National Diploma in various subjects and masters programmes on its Queens Road campus on Bridgend Industrial Estate.
Since July 2007, the streets of Bridgend are also patrolled on Friday and Saturday evenings by Street Pastors, an inter-denominational Church response to urban problems, engaging with people on the streets.
They have also played against international teams, New Zealand won on their visit in 1978, but Bridgend have beaten Italy, Western Samoa and Australia.
Pontypridd RFC had sold their share of the region early on due to their own financial difficulties, with remaining share which had been owned by Bridgend RFC being sold off to the Welsh Rugby Union at the end of the season, however, they decided to chose the region due to financial problems.
He was born in Bridgend, on Saint David's Day, 1 March 1826, son of a tailor, also named John Thomas, a clarinetist in the amateur town band.
Porthcawl is a town and community on the south coast of Wales in the county borough of Bridgend, 25 miles ( 40 kilometres ) west of the capital city, Cardiff and 19 miles ( 30. 5 kilometres ) southeast of Swansea.
Following the demise of the Celtic Warriors region on 1 June 2004, Neath-Swansea Ospreys had their borders extended to cover much of the Bridgend and Ogmore areas to the east.
As air raids on Cardiff increased, even younger children from Radyr were evacuated to residential boarding schools at Rhoose and Bridgend.
At Bridgend, six possible plants of the Radyr genus were found on an old garden wall, but confirmation of identification is still awaited.
The signals reach as far out as the South Wales Valleys to the north and Bridgend and Swansea ( although only very faintly and on higher ground in the latter location ) to the west, as well as unofficially covering a significant area of the West of England to the south and east.
The station's official Ofcom transmitted service area ( TSA ) covers Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot and Llanelli, although The Wave can also be received further east in places such as Bridgend and the South Wales Valleys ( particularly on DAB ).
On 26 September 2006, he confirmed that he would continue to play for Wales, and was scheduled to return to the side against Scotland at the Brewery Field, Bridgend in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup qualifying match on Sunday 29 October 2006.
Bridgend and Ogmore
South of Bridgend the River Ewenny merges with the River Ogmore and flows into the Bristol Channel.
During World War II, many ‘ munitioneers ’ settled in Ogmore and across South Wales to work at the Welsh Arsenal in Bridgend.
Baron Ogmore, of Bridgend in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The A4061 leads over the Bwlch y Clawdd Pass, and by this road it is possible to travel to Bridgend via the Ogmore Vale and to Maesteg and Port Talbot.
On summer Sundays, Veolia provides a route to Bridgend ( via the Ogmore Valley ) and Brecon under the Shamrock Travel branding.
The village does not lie in the parliamentary constituency also called Ogmore, which lies further up the Ogmore River in Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taff districts.
It runs generally from north to south from the Ogmore Vale and Gilfach Goch, past Bridgend and Ogmore.
The Ewenny River () rises to the north-east of Bridgend town and flows through Pencoed and Coychurch before entering the River Ogmore estuary just below Ogmore Castle.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1972 from the urban districts of Bridgend, Maesteg, Ogmore and Garw and Porthcawl, along with Penybont Rural District from the administrative county of Glamorgan.
Ogmore Castle ( alternate: Ogor Castelle ; or Castell Ogwr ) is located near the village of Ogmore-by-Sea, south of the town of Bridgend in Glamorgan, South Wales.
His seat was redistributed at the end of the Parliament and he narrowly lost the successor seat at the 1950 general election and was raised to the peerage as Baron Ogmore, of Bridgend in the County of Glamorgan, on 5 July 1950.
The Bridgend constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Ogmore & Aberavon.
Taking its name from the River Ogmore, the constituency is situated close to the source of the river in the Ogwr valley and excludes the village of Ogmore-by-Sea, which is the seaside village of Bridgend ( Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr ).
Ogmore constituency covers the area of Bridgend County Borough Council roughly north of the M4, and parts of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council.
It is one of three main tributaries of the River Ogmore which runs through the town of Bridgend.
* From Bridgend, the Llynfi and Ogmore Railway ( L & OVR ) was formed on 28 June 1866 ( itself the amalgamation of earlier lines ); a standard gauge line as opposed to the main line.
It is also served by a number of bus routes to destinations both north and south of the village to and from the town of Bridgend and the Llynfi, Garw and Ogmore Valleys.
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It was home to a prisoner of war camp at Island Farm and a large munitions factory ( ROF Bridgend — known as the " Admiralty ") at Waterton, as well as a large underground munitions storage base at Brackla ( known as the 8 xs ).
Jonathan (" Jon ") Michael Brown ( born 27 February 1971 in Bridgend, Wales ) is a former British athlete, now representing Canada.
The Bridgend Designer Outlet, also known as McArthurGlen Designer Outlet ( and known locally as " The Pines ") is a commercial retail park and outlet store development in Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom.
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