It is also available to purchase in the BMC online shop and available from selected mountain centres throughout the UK, such as Plas y Brenin in Capel Curig.

Also located in Capel Curig is the UK National Mountain Centre at Plas y Brenin, which offers the highest quality mountaineering, climbing, canoeing facilities and training.

* Plas y Brenin-National Mountain Centre Website

Plas y Brenin located in North Wales is currently the The National Mountain Centre for the United Kingdom.

In 1955 the Royal Hotel was renamed " Plas y Brenin " as a memorial to King George VI, whose trust fund had bought the building for use by The Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) and was " The Snowdonia National Recreation Centre ".

Plas y Brenin was visited by H. R. H.

This was to be Plas y Brenin's formative and hard fought period and eventually became the " gold standard " for other such centres around the world.

Plas y Brenin is now a vibrant outdoor pursuits centre and is managed by the Mountain Training Trust ( MTT ), on behalf of Sport England, and is one of five National Sports Centres.

The latter point should be considered as a justification of the original intent of Plas y Brenin that for the first twenty five years of the existence of the centre that the British Mountaineering Council treated the existence of Plas y Brenin with a deal of politically motivated negativity.

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* " The Splendid Enterprise-The First Fifty Years of Plas y Brenin The National Mountain Centre ( UK )", by Lyndsey King, Published 2006, ISBN 978-0-9554675-0-9

* Plas y Brenin Website

There are a number of small lakes and reservoirs in the woodlands north of Plas Tan y Bwlch which also drain south into the river.

The Pen-y-Gwryd mountain rescue post was closely tied with the two other mountain rescue posts in the area, namely Ogwen Cottage Outdoor pursuits Center now the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation and Plas y Brenin.

Their home was called Plas yn y Rofft in Elizabethan times and was located in a field behind the present farmhouse above the village of Cwrt ,( originally Pont y Cwrt, meaning " court ") near to Mynydd Esgairweddan.

Noordhove ( postcode 2728 ) is located between Seghwaert to the south and the artificial lake known as ' Zoetermeerse Plas ' to the north.

Butler's Hill, near Plas Newydd, is named in honour of Eleanor Butler.

On the outskirts of the town is Plas Newydd (" New Place " or " New Hall "), home of the Ladies of Llangollen, the honourable Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler.

Vanden Plas is a German progressive metal band, based in Kaiserslautern and founded in the mid-1980s.

There is a successful hockey club, Chester HC, who play at the County Officers ' Club on Plas Newton Lane, a Handball team Deva Handball Club, who boast to be the largest handball team in the country.

Teabag folding began in the Netherlands and is often credited to Tiny van der Plas.

Two years later Daimler's share had reached 11. 5 %— in fact almost 23 % if the Vanden Plas for USA is included.

The name Daimler continued to be used to determine top-line XJ Jaguars in every country except the USA, where the top XJ is known as the " XJ Vanden Plas " — Jaguar may have feared that the American market would confuse Jaguar Daimler with Daimler AG.

Much later, the Vanden Plas Princess was revived as a single model of the Leyland Princess range, built by British Leyland ( BL ) in the 1970s and initially sold through Austin and other dealerships ; this car was never actually badged Austin Princess in the UK ( though it was in some export markets ) and is commonly referred to as simply the Princess.

The main Arts centre is at Wrexham County Library called Oriel Wrexham holding exhibitions and events, with others at Glyndŵr University in Plas Coch and Yale College.

The science discovery centre is situated within Glyndŵr University's Plas Coch campus.

* Hockey – Plas Coch is home to the North Wales Regional Hockey Stadium, with seating for 200 spectators and floodlighting.

Vanden Plas is the name of a company of coachbuilders who produced bodies for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers.

This decision was later changed but Vanden Plas is used in North America instead of Daimler on Jaguar's top luxury models.

The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex, in the Peerage of Great Britain ( 1784 ), Baron Paget, de Beaudesert, in the Peerage of England ( 1553 ), and is also an Irish Baronet, of Plas Newydd in the County of Anglesey and of Mount Bagenall in the County of Louth.

The family owned the historic house and gardens at Mount Stewart, County Down, Northern Ireland, the Wynyard Park estate in County Durham as well as Londonderry House on Park Lane in London ( where the Hilton London Hotel is now ) and Plas Machynlleth in mid-Wales.

A gnarled and twisted apple tree, growing by the side of Plas Bach, is believed to be the only survivor of an orchard that was tended by the monks who lived there a thousand years ago.

In Penarth marina there is an address named after the twinned town, " Plas St. Pol De Leon ".

Another fine house open to the public is Plas Mawr, an Elizabethan house built in 1576 by the Wynn family, has been extensively refurbished to its original 16th-century appearance and is now in the care of Cadw.

The Princess Mark 4 was shelved in 1959 and replaced in the Austin catalogue by a much smaller model, an upgraded Austin Westminster ( Pininfarina-designed Vanden Plas Princess see below ) which retailed at little more than 40 % of the Mark IV's price.

Yale's ancestry can be traced back to the family estate at Plas yn Iâl near the village of Llandegla, Denbighshire, Wales.

Yale returned to London in 1699, and resided at Plas Grono, near Wrexham, a mansion bought by his father.

Composer Sir Edward Elgar lived at Plas Gwyn in Hereford between 1904 and 1911, writing some of his most famous works during that time.

* The stable block at Plas Llanstephan ( 1788 )

They decided to move to England but ended up in Wales, and set up home at Plas Newydd, near the town of Llangollen in 1780.

A 27m high monument to his heroism ( designed by Thomas Harrison ) was erected at Llanfair PG on Anglesey, close to his country retreat at Plas Newydd, in 1816.

With the Allegro, the makers avoided the full extent of badge engineering that defined the marketing of its predecessor, but they nevertheless introduced in September 1974 an upmarket Allegro branded as the Vanden Plas 1500 / automatic: this featured a prominent grille at the front and an interior enhanced by a range of modifications designed to attract traditionally inclined customers, including special seats upholstered in real leather with reclining backrests, ' deep ' carpets, extra sound insulation, a new instrument panel in walnut, nylon headlining and, for the luggage a fully trimmed boot / trunk.

In 1974, a time when the UK starting price for the Austin Allegro was given as £ 1159, BLMC were quoting, at launch, a list price of £ 1951 for its Vanden Plas sibling.

In 1947, Austin produced two virtually identical chassis, one for the A110 later A125 Sheerline ( built entirely by Austin at their Longbridge factory ) and the A120 later A135 chassis used by Vanden Plas to produce the Princess at their Kingsbury works ( North London ).

All now being parts of British Leyland, the Jaguar Mark X-based Daimler DS420 was initially produced at the Vanden Plas works in Kingsbury, North London then replaced the Vanden Plas Princess within the new, slightly rationalised range.

This had been foreseen in 1966 when British Motor Holdings ( BMH ) had brought BMC and Jaguar together, and stopped development at Vanden Plas of the potential successor car.

* Basketball – Wrexham Raiders Basketball Club play at Glyndwr's Plas Coch sports arena.

* Netball-Wrexham Warriors play at Glyndwr's Plas Coch sports arena.

The DS420 was produced at the Kingsbury Lane Vanden Plas factory until it closed in November 1979.

# Vanden Plas history & models at " The unofficial Austin Rover resource "

The iron castings for the trough were produced at the nearby Plas Kynaston Foundry, Cefn Mawr, which was built by the Shrewsbury ironfounder and millwright William Hazledine in the hope of gaining the contract.

Ashton was a great friend of the Paget family and was a frequent visitor to the family seat at Plas Newydd ; it was there that one of the Paget daughters, Lady Rose fell hopelessly in love with him ; he rebuffed her advances and at one point returned her letters-after having corrected her spelling.