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Carmarthen and thought
The Black Book of Carmarthen ( Welsh: Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin ) is thought to be the earliest surviving manuscript written entirely or substantially in Welsh.
One theory of the nickname ' The Wizards ' is thought to have been based on the many workers who came to Port Talbot in the 19th century from the Carmarthen area, strongly associated with the legendary wizard Merlin.

Carmarthen and was
The Celticist A. O. H. Jarman suggests the Welsh name () was derived from the toponym Caerfyrddin, the Welsh name for the town known in English as Carmarthen.
This was followed by the capture of Wiston in 1147, Carmarthen in 1150 and Loughor in 1151.
The king was absent in France in 1159, and Rhys took the opportunity to attack Dyfed and then to lay siege to Carmarthen, which was saved by a relief force led by Earl Reginald of Cornwall.
Caerwent continued to be occupied, while Carmarthen was probably abandoned in the late 4th century.
The county was bounded to the north by Brecknockshire, east by Monmouthshire, south by the Bristol Channel, and west by Carmarthenshire and Carmarthen Bay.
At the 1979 general election the party's vote share declined from 10. 8 % to 8. 1 % and Carmarthen was again lost to Labour.
In the 2001 general election, Plaid Cymru lost Wyn Jones's former seat of Ynys Môn to Albert Owen, but gained Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, where Adam Price was elected.
A poem found in the Black Book of Carmarthen refers to Bendigeidfran's death in Ireland, claiming that Gwyn ap Nudd was present at the battle, either as a warrior or in his traditional role as a psychopomp.
The girl was supposedly the widow of the sheriff of Carmarthen.
In 1540, the body of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and father of Henry VII, was brought to be entombed in front of the High Altar from the dissolved Greyfriars ’ Priory in Carmarthen.
His first major work in the area was the first of three prisons he would design, Carmarthen 1789-92, this prison was planned by John Howard ( prison reformer ) and Nash developed this into the finished building.
Indeed, a principal station on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line was named after the Abbey.
Thomas was born in Port Talbot, Wales, the second son of Zachariah Thomas, a Welsh speaking miner from Carmarthen, and Emma Jane Tilbury, daughter of a founder of the English Methodist Church in Tonypandy.
* Carmarthen was the birthplace of Merlin according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.
A member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, Steele remained in Carmarthen after Mary's death, and was buried there, at St Peter's Church.
They had one child, Francis Godolphin Osborne ( styled Marquess of Carmarthen, later 5th Duke of Leeds and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ), who was born on 29 January 1751.
The story of the Red Lady was the focus of an arts project supported by a Steps to New Music Award from the Arts Council of Wales and premiered in Carmarthen, west Wales, on 1 April 2010.
Herbert imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in South Wales, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456, and was buried at Carmarthen Grey Friars.
In May 1714, Wotton was forced to abandon his rectory at Milton Keynes in order to avoid his creditors, and for seven years he lived at Carmarthen in south-west Wales under the assumed name of Dr. William Edwards.
From this support the movement for provincial eisteddfodau developed and in 1819, he was very keen to establish such a provincial eisteddfod in Carmarthen.
The first patent for a ball race was by Philip Vaughan of Carmarthen in 1794.
A public monument was erected to his memory in St Paul's Cathedral, by order of parliament, and in 1823 another was erected at Carmarthen by subscription, the king contributing a hundred guineas.

Carmarthen and fight
Jenkins claimed that he had been encouraged to apply to become a pre-approved Conservative candidate by the Party's group leader in the Welsh Assembly, Nicholas Bourne, had been subsequently pre-approved by the Conservative Party as a candidate and then selected to fight the Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South constituency by the local party in that seat but that the potential controversy that his selection could have caused and the effect on David Cameron's image led David Cameron to demand his resignation as a candidate despite the Conservative Party in Wales giving Jenkins its full backing.

Carmarthen and ;
In the census ; Merionnydd, Ynys Mon, Carmarthen, and Caernarfon averaged 75 % concentration of Welsh speakers, with the most significant decrease in the counties of Glamorgan, Flint, and Pembroke.
He still nominally retained his seat in the privy council, but in parliament he became a bitter critic of the administration ; and the rivalry of Halifax ( the Black Marquess ) with Danby, now Marquess of Carmarthen ( the White Marquess ) threw the former at this time into determined opposition.
Carmarthen ( ; ) is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Local residents have been campaigning for the return of the railway to Lampeter but much of the trackbed to Carmarthen has been given over to other developments over several decades ; bridges etc.
Let all of you know that we have granted to our beloved and faithful burgesses of Thalacharn, for us and for our heirs and for our successors, whoever they may be, all the good laws and customs that the burgesses of Carmarthen have up to now used and enjoyed in the time of King John, the grandfather of the Lord Edward I, the son of Henry III, and their predeccessors, Kings of England ; preserving the weights and measures that were in the time of Gwydo de Brione, the elder.
The institution has changed its title three times in its history, from St David's College to St David's University College in 1971, then to the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1996, and more recently to the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David — a merging of University of Wales, Lampeter and Trinity University College, Carmarthen — in 2010 ; the names are split up into these categories.
* Lampeter – there are links to the A475 ( Cardigan ) and the A485 ( Carmarthen ) from here ;
The line from Swansea opened as far as Carmarthen on 11 October 1852 ; then to Haverfordwest on 2 January 1854 ; and finally to its terminus at Neyland on 15 April 1856.

Carmarthen and did
Some of the smaller counties corporate — Berwick upon Tweed, Lichfield, Lincoln, Poole, Carmarthen and Haverfordwest — did not become county boroughs, although Canterbury, with a population under 25, 000, did.

Carmarthen and Nottingham
The trains currently operate between London and Penzance, Plymouth, Newquay, Paignton, Exeter, Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen, Pembroke Dock, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Bristol, York, Inverness, Harrogate, Hull, Bradford, Nottingham, Sunderland, Leeds, Great Malvern, Hereford, Glasgow and Cheltenham.

Carmarthen and who
The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.
His sources are not given but the Cambro-Briton in 1822 also recorded that Maximus, the last Roman Emperor of Britain, a man who for a time divided the Roman Empire with Theodosius I, on withdrawing Roman legions from Britain granted civic status and Celtic names to a number of pacified Romano British settlements, including Southampton, Chichester, Old Sarum near Salisbury, Carmarthen ( Caerfyrddin ) and Haverfordwest ( Caer Alun ).
Carmarthen Town Association Football Club () is a Welsh semi-professional football club based in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, who play in the Welsh Premier League.
who played for Carmarthen Town at Youth level and Senior later, He caught the eye of Swansea City and later played for Wycombe Wanderers as a Midfielder.
* Mark Delaney ( 1995 – 98 ) is a former Wales international footballer who played for Carmarthen Town, Cardiff City and Aston Villa as a right back.
" Professor Evans of the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, actually saw a sin-eater about the year 1825, who was then living near Llanwenog, Cardiganshire.
Nott was born in 1782, near Neath in Wales, the second son of Charles Nott, a Herefordshire farmer, who in 1794 became an innkeeper of the Ivy Bush Inn at Carmarthen in Wales.
Thomas Osborne, who became 1st Viscount Osborne ( 1673 ), 1st Viscount Latimer ( 1673 ), 1st Earl of Danby ( 1674 ), 1st Marquess of Carmarthen ( 1689 ) and 1st Duke of Leeds ( 1694 ).
Thus, North East Wales Institute of Higher Education ( NEWI ), Swansea Institute of Higher Education and Trinity College, Carmarthen ( who were all previously Associated Institutions ) along with the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama ( which was previously a Validated Institution ) were admitted as full members of the university on 27 July 2004.
These became counties under the government of the Justiciar of South Wales ( or of West Wales ), who was based in Carmarthen.
There is an " alternative " women's hat for those who consider the traditional Welsh hat unflattering, in the form of a " cocklewoman's hat ", a flat felt hat tied with ribbons on which women balanced the heavy baskets of cockles which they gathered from the coast around Carmarthen Bay when taking them home to cook, and thence to market.
Augusta Maria Byron, later Augusta Maria Leigh ( 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851 ), styled " The Honourable " from birth, was the only daughter of John " Mad Jack " Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia Osborne ( Baroness Conyers in her own right and the divorced wife of Francis, Marquis of Carmarthen, who was later to become 5th Duke of Leeds ).
Originally conceived as a broad-gauge line between Carmarthen and Cardigan by the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway, it was absorbed into the GWR who developed the line into Newcastle Emlyn, the company saw no point in developing the line beyond this point, and so it became a terminus.
William Delme Thomas ( born 12 September 1942 in Bancyfelin near Carmarthen ) is a former rugby union player who became one of Wales ' best known rugby players in the 1960s and 70s.
Mark Anthony Delaney ( born 13 May 1976 in Haverfordwest ) is a retired Wales footballer who played for Carmarthen Town, Cardiff City and Aston Villa as a right back.
Dwayne John Peel ( born 31 August 1981 in Carmarthen ) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Sale Sharks and Wales.
On 11 April 1840, the first printing press was set up in Carmarthen by William Spurrell ( 1813-1889 ), who wrote a history of Carmarthen called Carmarthen and its Neighbourhood and pioneered the first English-Welsh dictionary with his son, Walter Spurrell ( 1858-1934 ).
* Lady Kathleen Lowry-Corry ( 28 July 1887 – 13 October 1972 ), who was married on 7 May 1919 as his second wife to Brigadier General Thomas Ward CMG, of Brynhir, Criccieth, co. Carmarthen ( who d. 16 January 1949 ), and had issue

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