A tobacco industry-funded study conducted by the School of Technology of the University of Glamorgan in Wales, published in the Building Services Journal suggested that " ventilation is effective in controlling the level of contamination ", although " ventilation can only dilute or partially displace contaminants and occupational exposure limits are based on the ' as low as reasonably practicable ' principle ".

The county council's offices were located in the Glamorgan Building ( the former headquarters of Glamorgan County Council ), in Cathays Park, Cardiff, outside of the Mid Glamorgan boundaries.

Lord Morris has been Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan since 2002, succeeding fellow Labour politician Lord Merlyn-Rees.

He has received Honorary Doctorates of Science from the Universities of Wales ( 1991 ), Stirling ( 1992 ), East Anglia ( 1993 ), Leeds ( 1995 ), Heriot-Watt ( 1996 ), Greenwich ( 1997 ), Glamorgan ( 1998 ), Reading ( 1999 ), Birmingham ( 2000 ), Gloucestershire ( 2001 ), Hull ( 2002 ) and Dalhousie ( 2010 ).

The words were written by Evan James and the tune composed by his son, James James, both residents of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in January 1856.

In his non-first-class appearances for Somerset, his bowling figures did not stand out, but there were some sizeable scores, namely 91 for the Under-25s v Glamorgan Under-25s, 82 & 42 v Cornwall, 51 v Gloucester Under-25s, 50 v Glamorgan 2nd XI and in his last game ( before his 1986 comeback match ) 100 against Glamorgan 2nd XI.

They were located in Leyland, Caerphilly ( Mid Glamorgan ), Merry Hill in Dudley, Sutton Coldfield ( Birmingham ), Glasshoughton ( near Castleford ), Eastleigh ( near Southampton ), MetroCentre in Gateshead, Telford Shopping Centre ( Shropshire ), Boroughbridge ( North Yorkshire ), Swindon and Cribbs Causeway in Bristol.

* other areas of the lordships were annexed to Shropshire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire and Merionethshire

A stretch of the Vale of Glamorgan Line, on which passenger services were closed under the Beeching Axe, re-opened for passenger service, with services from to, via, Rhoose Cardiff Intl.

Other instrumental industries in Pontypridd were the-Brown Lenox / Newbridge Chain & Anchor Works south east of the town, and Crawshay ’ s Forest Iron, Steel & Tin Plate Works and the Taff Vale Iron Works, both in Treforest near the now University of Glamorgan.

Although the Earldom of Glamorgan and Viscountcy of Grosmont were not recognised as substantive titles at the restoration of Charles II, because of irregularities in the patent of creation, they have nevertheless continued to be used as convenient courtesy titles in order to distinguish the bearer from the Marquess of Worcester as heir apparent, the Earldom of Worcester not being distinctive enough for this purpose.

* Teiliwr: In Glamorgan tailors were associated with witchcraft.

They won the Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy on three successive years between 1979 and 1981, and were champions of WRU Division Five South Central in 2010.

The preserved counties were originally almost identical to the 1974 – 96 counties, but with a few minor changes in line with local government boundary changes: Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llansilin and Llangedwyn were transferred from Clwyd to Powys, and Wick, St Brides Major, Ewenny and Pentyrch were transferred from Mid Glamorgan to South Glamorgan.

The early 1970s, in contrast to his first six years at Glamorgan, were to be the peak of Davis ' cricketing career.

These areas were divided between two districts: Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan.

Mid Glamorgan and its component districts were abolished in 1996 and the area split into the unitary authorities of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and part of Caerphilly as a result of the Local Government ( Wales ) Act 1994.

Following the Local Government ( Wales ) Act 1994, West Glamorgan and its component districts were abolished on 1 April 1996, the area being divided into the two unitary authorities of Swansea and Neath and Port Talbot.

At that stage, the cricket ground to the north was still being used by Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and the rugby union ground to the south was used by the national Wales team and Cardiff RFC.

Glamorgan County Cricket Club would move to Sophia Gardens and the cricket ground to the north would be demolished and a new rugby union stadium built for Cardiff RFC, who would move out of the south ground, allowing the National Stadium to be built, for the sole use of the national rugby union team.

Glamorgan Cricket Club, at the time not a first-class county, played their first match at Cardiff Arms Park in June 1869, against Monmouthshire Cricket Club.

Both Cardiff Cricket Club and Glamorgan then moved to a new ground at Sophia Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Taff to the Arms Park, following work on the creation of a national rugby stadium, later named the National Stadium.

* G. H. Doble thought that Piran was a Welshman from Glamorgan, citing the lost chapel once dedicated to him in Cardiff.

In 1974 Glamorgan contained two cities, Cardiff, the county town and from 1955 the capital city of Wales, and Swansea.

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The current Earls of Pembroke also carry the subsidiary titles: Baron Herbert of Cardiff, of Cardiff in the County of Glamorgan ( 1551 ), Baron Herbert of Shurland, of Shurland in the Isle of Sheppey in the County of Kent ( 1605 ), and Baron Herbert of Lea, of Lea in the County of Wilts ( 1861 ).

Also, a merger was proposed between three other universities in Wales: University of Glamorgan, Cardiff Metropolitan University and University of Wales, Newport.

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

Pugh was born in Birmingham, but lived for many years in Cardiff and taught creative writing at the University of Glamorgan until retiring in 2008.

In total, it serves 81 stations in six unitary authority areas: 20 in the city of Cardiff, 11 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 25 in Rhondda Cynon Taff, 15 in Caerphilly, 8 in Bridgend and 5 in Merthyr Tydfil.

David William " Dave " Edmunds ( born 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Glamorgan, South Wales ) is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer.

He first played first-class cricket in the Glamorgan vs Sussex match at Cardiff Arms Park as an amateur in 1961, taking 2 / 12 and 3 / 67 and making 12 in his only innings.

* 5 July — formation of Glamorgan CCC at a meeting in the Angel Hotel, Cardiff.

She studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff.

However as Cardiff Council would not accommodate the installation of a commemorative plaque on their land, the ceremony had to be performed, and the plaque unveiled, on land owned by the adjacent local authority, the Vale of Glamorgan Council at the Penarth end of the barrage.

It was installed on Vale of Glamorgan land because of tensions between the CBDC and Cardiff Council ( see above ).

The Vale of Glamorgan would have been a natural low-level route west to the Roman fort and harbour at Neath ( Nidum ) from settlements in the east like Cardiff and Caerleon ( Isca ).

Overall there are 11 HE institutions in Wales including one music conservatoire, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff which is part of the University of Glamorgan Group.

In 2012, the minister with responsibility for education within Wales, Leighton Andrews, made a significant statement in relation to the merger of Cardiff Metropolitan University ( CMU, formerly UWIC ), the University of Glamorgan and University of Newport ( UN ) in which he proposed the dissolution of CMU and UN as part of the process towards merger.

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He grew up on the family's pastoral properties and was educated at Glamorgan ( now part of Geelong Grammar School ) and Melbourne Grammar School, before completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics (" Modern Greats ") at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1952, where he became friendly with future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner.

In Wales, the counties of Merioneth and Glamorgan are occasionally referred to with the " shire " suffix.

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.

Although initially a rural and pastoral area of little value, the area that became known as Glamorgan was a conflict point between the Norman lords and the Welsh princes, with the area being defined by a large concentration of castles.

The rest of Wales, except for the county of Flint, which was part of the Principality, and the Royal lordships of Glamorgan and Pembroke, was made up of numerous small lordships, each with its own courts, laws and other customs.

John granted him all that he might conquer from the Welsh in Radnorshire, gave him lordship over Limerick in Ireland ( save for the city itself ), possession of Glamorgan castle, and the Lordship of Gower with its several castles.

The new branding is themed around connectionsthe " C " in the logo is separated from " S4 " with a forward stroke to emphasize Wales as a distinct region, and idents produced by London-based design firm Proud Creative featured a theme of magnetism, with a large amount of a single object gathering in one place ( such as shopping carts at a grocery store, balloons in a roof, buoys in a dock, the Penarth Pier at Vale of Glamorgan, and golf carts at a golf course.

Appearing regularly in the bimonthly magazine, Aston discusses the various archaeological sites and monuments that he has visited across the British Isles, dealing with such disparate places as the early Christian monasteries in Glamorgan and the Second World War defences on Jersey.

The first UWC college, the United World College of the Atlantic, located in a 12th Century castle set in 90 hectares of grounds in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales, United Kingdom, was founded in 1962 with the initiative of Kurt Hahn, a German educationalist who had previously founded Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and the Outward Bound movement ; the castle was gifted to UWC by Antonin Besse II, the son of Sir Antonin Besse.

In his teenage years, Sheen was involved with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and, later, the National Youth Theatre of Wales.

Commenting upon Sobers ' six sixes in an over against his team in 1968, Glamorgan captain Tony Lewis said: " It was not sheer slogging through strength, but scientific hitting with every movement working in harmony ".

The heritage coasts of the Vale of Glamorgan, Bideford Bay and Gower are, along with the Atlantic coasts of Pembrokeshire and Cornwall, the key areas for surfing in the whole of Britain.

However, as no mention is made in the legends of an expedition this far north, it might have been a disciple, or a pilgrim returning from Glamorgan with a relic, who established the church at Cambuslang.

It is traditionally within the county of Glamorgan, on the border with Monmouthshire and it is the largest town in the county borough of Caerphilly, which since 2003 has formed part of the lieutenancy area of Gwent.

Coal trains regularly sent coal down the valleys and with the opening of the Vale of Glamorgan railway, coal could be sent directly to port at Barry or through other branch lines to Porthcawl.

Kenfig National Nature Reserve Glamorgan ’ s largest natural lake, Kenfig Pool, is set on the edge of this beautiful area, with spectacular views from Sker beach across Swansea Bay to the Gower.