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Ogof Draenen ( Welsh for Hawthorn Cave ) is, at 66 km ( official figure ; the true length of passage is still being revised upward, with a rough modern approximation at it being 70 km ), the longest cave system in Wales and the second longest in Great Britain behind the Easegill System, Lost Johns and Notts 2 system in North Yorkshire.
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Ogof and Draenen
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Ogof and Welsh
The name Wookey is derived from the Celtic ( Welsh ) for ' cave ', " Ogo " or " Ogof " which gave the early names for this cave of " Ochie " " Ochy ".
Ogof Craig a Ffynnon ( Welsh for " Rock and Fountain Cave ") is a cave in Wales.
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu ( Welsh for Cave of the Black Spring ; also known as OFD ) is a cave located under a hillside in the area surrounding Penwyllt in the Upper Swansea Valley in South Wales.
Ogof and for
The entire river runs underground for 1 / 4 mile at Porth yr Ogof as it crosses the Carboniferous Limestone outcrop.
It is often climbed from Beddgelert and it can be combined with the nearby mountains of Moel yr Ogof and Moel Lefn for a longer walk.
Dan yr Ogof, also known as the National Showcaves Centre for Wales, is a long cave system in south Wales, five miles north of Ystradgynlais and fifteen miles south west of Brecon within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Ogof and Cave
He succeeded in crossing to Anglesey, landing at Rhos Badrig ( Patrick's Moor ) and finding refuge in Ogof Badrig ( Patrick's Cave ).
Llanymynech Ogof ( Llanymynech Cave ) is a former copper mine with origins perhaps in the Bronze Age.
Amongst these must be mentioned Swildon's Hole, Stoke Lane Slocker, Ogof Ffynnon Ddu II and Little Neath River Cave.
On Moel yr Ogof can be found Owain Glyndŵr's Cave.
Ogof and is
There is also another watchtower, the Lady Emilys Tower which is located near Cefn yr Ogof.
A spring of water located in Ogof Llech, a cave on the headland which is very difficult to access.
It is thought that the cave will eventually be connected to the theoretical Llangattock System through Ogof y Daren Cilau.
Ogof and official
* The official Dan yr Ogof showcave site
Ogof and cave
* Ogof Ffynnon Ddu-the third-longest cave in the United Kingdom
One of the largest cave systems in Britain, the caves and tunnels of Ogof Ffynnon Ddu weave a long and tortuous path beneath the Tawe Valley.
Ogof and Wales
Speleothem s in Hall of the Mountain King, Ogof Craig a Ffynnon, South Wales.
Image: HallOfTheMountainKings. jpg | Various formations in the Hall of the Mountain Kings, Ogof Craig a Ffynnon, South Wales, Great Britain.
* Dan yr Ogof in Powys, Wales
Ogof and second
In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.
In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by Dan yr Ogof caves.
Ogof and Britain
In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, Dan yr Ogof was named as the greatest natural wonder in Britain.
Ogof and .
It forms the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu National Nature Reserve.
There are a few short caves in and around Dinas Rock, including Ogof Pont Sychryd, Ogof Bwa Maen and Will's Hole.
Previously, the outlawed creed held its meetings in secret in Ogof Goetre Wen on the Morlais River some four miles away.
Draenen and Welsh
Thornhill ( Welsh Draenen Pen-y-Graig draen thorn +-en one + pen top + ' y ' the + craig rock to ' graig ') is a northern suburb in the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales, south of Caerphilly.
Draenen and is
Draenen contains a variety of spectacular decorations and some huge passages ( the War of the Worlds section is probably the second largest cave passage in Britain ).
Welsh and for
This was in retaliation for a raid led by the Welsh rulers Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch, and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.
This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.
In Chubut, the Welsh community is known for its teahouses, offering scones and torta galesa, which is rather like torta negra.
* Roy Noble-popular Welsh broadcaster has lived near Aberdare for the past 30 years
In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.
Accepting his supposed hospitality, at a traditional time for settling differences, the influential Welsh leaders of the surrounding areas nearly all arrived, proffered their swords as tokens of peaceful intent to servants and, unarmed, were ushered further into the castle where de Braose's armed soldiers hacked them down in cold blood.
Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.
It is also possible that the term derives from the Welsh Brit Gweldig, the term for a ruler of Britain.
Today the existence of bilingual dictionaries directly from Breton into languages such as English, Dutch, German, Spanish and Welsh demonstrates the determination of a new generation to gain international recognition for Breton.
An Act of Parliament passed in the year 1563, entitled “ An Act for the Translating of the Bible and the Divine Service into the Welsh Tongue ,” ordered that the Old and New Testament, together with the Book of Common Prayer, were to be translated into Welsh.
Several contemporary bands have Welsh language songs, such as Ceredwen, which fuses traditional instruments with trip-hop beats, the Super Furry Animals, Fernhill, and so on ( see the Music of Wales article for more Welsh and Welsh-language bands ).
The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".
There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day ; professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Jennifer Welsh said of this: " Canada Day, like the country, is endlessly decentralized.
* In Welsh, OC can be expanded to equivalents of both AD ( Oed Crist ) and CE ( Oes Cyffredin ); for dates before the Common Era, CC ( traditionally, Cyn Crist ) is used exclusively, as Cyn yr Oes Cyffredin would abbreviate to a mild obscenity.
Because of the similarity of the names, the Cimbri were at times associated with Cymry, the Welsh name for themselves.
" The words for “ sea ” and “ dead ” were mori and * maruo-in Gaulish ( muir and marbh in Modern Irish, môr and marw in Modern Welsh and mor and marv in Modern Breton ).
In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.
Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
In 1943 he wrote and recorded a fifteen minute talk entitled " Reminiscences of Childhood " for the Welsh BBC.
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