* South West Wales-Swansea to New Quay-surrounded by the Bristol Channel, St George's Channel and Cardigan Bay

The Welsh equivalent to Lyonesse and Ker Ys is Cantre ' r Gwaelod, a legendary drowned kingdom in Cardigan Bay.

Telemetry was also a source for the Soviets, who operated listening ships in Cardigan Bay to eavesdrop on UK missile tests performed in the area.

In harness racing, Cane Smoke had 120 wins, including 34 in a single season, Paleface Adios became a household name during the 1970s, while Cardigan Bay, a pacing horse from New Zealand, enjoyed great success at the highest levels of American harness racing in the 1960s.

Notable racehorses from New Zealand include Cardigan Bay, Carbine, Nightmarch, Sunline, Desert Gold and Rising Fast.

The most famous of these is probably Cardigan Bay.

Stanley Dancer drove the New Zealand bred horse, Cardigan Bay to win $ 1 million in stakes in 1968, the first harness horse to surpass that milestone in American history.

According to tradition, Gwyddno was the lord of Cantre ' r Gwaelod () in what is now Cardigan Bay.

The Welsh name is translated as: " the Mawddach station and its dragon under the northern peace of the Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan Bay.

It also includes the description ar eurdraeth Ceredigion for " on the golden beach of Cardigan Bay ": however " Cardigan Bay " is Bae Ceredigion, and it is the neighbouring county ( the station itself is in Gwynedd ).

In 1968 New Zealand bred Cardigan Bay became the first Standardbred horse ever to win US $ 1 million dollars, and the ninth horse to do so worldwide ( the first eight were Thoroughbreds ).

Bret Hanover was only ever beaten by three horses, Cardigan Bay, Adios Vic and True Duane.

He had great duels with Cardigan Bay, harness racing's first millionaire including the Pace of the Century won by Cardigan Bay.

Bret Hanover easily beat Cardigan Bay in the Revenge Pace, also set up by Yonkers Raceway.

* Cardigan Bay ( NZ )

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

** Pacers: Cardigan Bay

BBC Radio 5 Live broadcasts in AM on the medium wave frequencies 693 and 909 kHz nationally, with the frequency 990 kHz used at Cardigan Bay ; these frequencies had been utilised by BBC Radio 5 and were used by BBC Radio 2 previously.

The Lighthouse replaces a light-vessel previously moored in the south of Cardigan Bay.

* The Clark School was at one time located in Hanover but merged with Cardigan Mountain School in the nearby town of Canaan in 1953.

Rhys built a number of stone castles, starting with Cardigan castle, which was the earliest recorded native-built stone castle in Wales.

Rhys gave Gerald and Archbishop Baldwin a great deal of assistance when they visited Wales to raise troops for the crusade in 1188, and Gerald several times refers to his " kindness " and says that Rhys accompanied them all the way from Cardigan to the northern border of Ceredigion " with a liberality peculiarly praiseworthy in so illustrious a prince ".

The Marshalls took advantage of Llywelyn's involvement here to land near St David's in April with an army raised in Ireland and recaptured Cardigan and Carmarthen without opposition.

The Peace of Middle, agreed on 21 June, established a truce of two years with Llywelyn, who was allowed to retain Cardigan and Builth.

Owain and Cadwaladr, in alliance with Gruffydd ap Rhys of Deheubarth, won a major victory over the Normans at Crug Mawr near Cardigan in 1136 and annexed Ceredigion to their father's realm.

Cardigan State Park, with Mount Cardigan, is in the west.

The Cardigan name lives on with Mount Cardigan and Cardigan State Park.

He had been taken prisoner with other Royalists while besieging Cardigan Castle on 4 February 1645.

In February 1811 his father inherited the Cardigan earldom, along with the immense estates and revenues that went with it, and the family seat of Deene Park, Northamptonshire.

Hill drafted a strong memorandum urging Cardigan to employ " temper and discretion " in dealings with his officers, but Reynolds was cashiered.

The prosecution had demonstrated that Cardigan ( using a duelling pistol with concealed rifling and a hair trigger, which was thought unsporting according to the usages of duelling ) had fired upon Captain Harvey Tuckett.

Somerset John Gough Calthorpe, alleged in his book Letters from a Staff Officer in the Crimea that Cardigan had only survived because he had fled the scene before the charge made contact with the enemy.

This conclusion is shared by historian Alexander Kinglake, who concludes that although Cardigan displayed a " want ... of competence " after the charge, he had only lost contact with his men through his brave persistence in galloping too far ahead of them.

There is no doubt that Cardigan had reached and overrun the enemy battery: he was recognised beyond the guns by Prince Radziwill, an enemy officer with whom he was acquainted before the war.

It was not until the following year, however, with the official enquiries of Colonel Tulloch and the publication of Calthorpe's Letters, was there proof that Cardigan had not been telling the truth.

The 11th Hussars charged with the Light Brigade, which was commanded by their former Colonel, Lord Cardigan, at Balaklava during the Crimean War.

When Cardigan learnt of what was expected of his brigade, he questioned the sanity of the order as conveyed to him by Lucan, "… allow me to point out to you that there is a battery in front, battery on each flank, and the ground is covered with Russian riflemen.

Owain and Cadwaladr in alliance with Gruffudd ap Rhys of Deheubarth gained a crushing victory over the Normans at Crug Mawr near Cardigan in 1136 and took possession of Ceredigion.

Courtenay Square, Courtenay Street, Cardigan Street, Denny Street and Denny Crescent were laid out to a design by architects Stanley Davenport Adshead, Stanley Churchill Ramsay and JD Coleridge, in a Neo-Georgian style.

Cardigan Bay was taken to the USA at the advanced age of eight, on a " racing lease " to New Jersey reinsman Stanley Dancer and his owners for a payment of $ US125, 000, even though he had only $ US137, 000 in earnings up to that point and was " down on the hip " from a severe injury suffered racing in New Zealand years earlier.

On the horse's death in 1988, Cardigan Bay's driver Stanley Dancer, reflected on the gelding's last year of racing and said, " At the end he was going on heart alone ..... what a mighty heart it must have been ".

Harness racing legend Stanley Dancer recalled for two appearances with Cardigan Bay, his import from New Zealand later became the sport's first horse to top $ 1 million in career earnings.