Cowbridge Comprehensive School has approximately 1300 pupils, and is one of the best performing secondary schools in Wales.

The new Cowbridge Comprehensive School now boasts the top facilities available at this time.

Cowbridge Comprehensive School lies just to the southwest of the village.

By the time he attended Cowbridge Grammar School, he was already interested in writing.

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Cowbridge Grammar School was founded in 1608 and had close links with Jesus College, Oxford through its later benefactor, Dr Leoline Jenkins.

The old grammar school eventually merged with Cowbridge High School for Girls to became a comprehensive school, and the original buildings, having for some time lain derelict, have been converted into private accommodation.

He is regarded as the second founder of the eminent Cowbridge Grammar School, renowned for its academic standards which he had himself attended ..

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This process proceeded quickly in Wales, with the closure of such schools as Cowbridge Grammar School.

Nott was educated in Neath, and then at Cowbridge Grammar School but left education after his father became an innkeeper.

Later owners included Daniel Durrell, headmaster of Cowbridge Grammar School, and the benefactor of Tabernacle Chapel, Elias Bassett.

They were represented at a meeting in Tenby in 1880 that would later lead to the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881 and had a player, Edward Treharne, named in the very first Welsh International side also in 1881, who also played for Cowbridge Grammar School as a student.

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1874 saw Glamorgan's first away game, against Cowbridge Grammar School, and by 1875 the team played its first encounter with Newport.

The ' Ely Industrial School ' on Cowbridge Road East was home to orphaned children originally from Cardiff.

He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in 1822, an MA in 1824, a BCL in 1827 and a DCL in 1829.

September 2009 also saw the reintroduction of senior football to Cowbridge Town after a ten year absence.

Foxe personally witnessed the burning of William Cowbridge in September 1538.

Notable people who attended school in Cowbridge include:

* 12 January – An inquest is opened into the death of 12-year-old Stuart Cunningham-Jones in a school bus crash near Cowbridge in December 2002.

All approximately 1300 students can now be found on the one site instead of the three separate buildings that were all situated in different locations in Cowbridge.

It is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan and the third largest by population ( 13, 366 ( 2001 )) after Barry and Penarth, and ahead of Cowbridge, which lies about to the northeast.

It is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan and the third largest by population after Barry and Penarth, and ahead of Cowbridge, which lies about to the northeast.

The Llantwit Major Rugby Football Club, which played its first match against Cowbridge Rugby Football Club in 1889, fields two senior, one youth ( U / 19 ) and eight mini / junior teams, and plays in Division Four of the Welsh Rugby Union leagues.

Vale of Glamorgan CC consists of the divisions of the Vale of Glamorgan council of Baruc, Buttrills, Cadoc, Castleland, Court, Cowbridge, Dinas Powys, Dyfan, Gibbonsdown, Illtyd, Llandow / Ewenny, Llantwit Major, Peterston-super-Ely, Rhoose, St. Athan, St. Bride's Major, and Wenvoe.

The main road running through the heart of Canton is Cowbridge Road East, along which services 12 / 13 ( Ely / Drope / Culverhouse Cross ), 17 / 18 Capital City Red ( Ely / Caerau ), 33 / 33A / 33B ( Fairwater / Llandaff / Radyr ), 60 / 61 / 62 / 62A ( Fairwater / Pentrebane / Danescourt ) of Cardiff Bus run, with the 33B service running through the north and 12 / 13 running through the south of the district as well.

It is 6 1 / 2 m. S. from Cowbridge.

The first modern grammar schools were established in Welsh towns such as Ruthin, Brecon and Cowbridge.

The Battle of Stalling Down was fought near Cowbridge when the large English army of King Henry IV of England met a combined force of French and Welsh soldiers under Owain Glyndŵr in 1403.

Cowbridge is home to Cowbridge RFC a Welsh Rugby Union affiliated rugby union team, which fields two senior, a youth and ladies team.

Cowbridge () is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, approximately west of Cardiff.

Cowbridge is twinned with Clisson in the Loire-Atlantique department in northwestern France.

On 13 March 1254, Cowbridge received its first borough charter from Richard de Clare, the Lord of Glamorgan.

In Llanblethian he founded the town of Cowbridge and in Miskin he founded the castle and town of Llantrisant.

Cowbridge clock tower.

The New Palladian Town Hall was built in 1830 by Isaiah Verity of Ash Hall who in gratitude was made a Freeman of Cowbridge.

Six of the original prison cells are still intact, and house the exhibits of Cowbridge Museum.

The museum holds archaeological finds from Cowbridge and district, as well as displays on the later history of the town, including industrial and domestic artefacts, a photographic collection, and a small historical costume collection.

Cowbridge contains the following inns: the Bear Hotel, the Horse and Groom, the Edmondes Arms, the Duke of Wellington and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Closely attached to the town of Cowbridge is the village of Aberthin.

The aircraft crashed near Cowbridge after a structural failure of the fuselage.

Cowbridge Cricket Club first played in 1840 and now has six senior and junior teams and is affiliated to the South Wales Cricket Association.

Glamorgan CCC played county fixtures at Cowbridge in the 1930s.

Cowbridge also has a leisure centre where can be found various clubs including, tennis, football and badminton.