The Welsh regional teams play in the Magners League, the Anglo-Welsh Cup ( LV Cup ), the European Heineken Cup and the European ( Amlin ) Challenge Cup.

In the new Anglo-Welsh Cup Leicester won their group but lost in the semi-finals to Wasps at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

* England: six teams ( selected by performance in Aviva Premiership and Anglo-Welsh Cup )

In 1972 the RFU sanctioned a national knock-out cup — the R. F. U. Club Competition, the predecessor to today's Anglo-Welsh Cup — followed first by regional merit tables and then, in the mid 1980s, by national merit tables.

The club has experienced major success, having in the past won England's domestic competition, the Anglo-Welsh Cup ( as the John Player and Pilkington Cup ), as well as the Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup.

Although the Ospreys play their home matches at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea, they have since 2010 played their home Anglo-Welsh Cup home games at the Brewery Field, which is normally two games a season.

On the pitch in Alan Tait's first season the Falcons reached the Anglo-Welsh Cup final, losing to Gloucester 34-7.

The club also compete in the Anglo-Welsh Cup as well as one of the two Europe-wide club competitions — the Heineken Cup or European Challenge Cup, depending on their performance in the previous season.

London Irish won its first major trophy in 2002, claiming the Powergen Cup ( the competition that later became the Anglo-Welsh Cup ).

Cup action in the form of the final round of EDF Energy Cup pool stage games, where Saracens failed once again to win away in Wales, but taking a losing bonus point and a try bonus too was enough to see them qualify for the semi-final stage for the first time in their Anglo-Welsh cup history, ahead of their opponents Llanelli Scarlets.

The team compete in the English club competition, the Aviva Premiership, the Anglo-Welsh competition the LV = Cup and the European knock-out competition, the Amlin Challenge Cup.

They won the Heineken Cup in 2003 – 04 and 2006 – 07, the Anglo-Welsh Cup in 1999, 2000 and 2006 and the Aviva Premiership in 1990, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008.

Wasps won the Powergen Anglo-Welsh Cup in the 2005 / 06 season, beating Llanelli Scarlets in the final at Twickenham.

Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.

The town, located just five miles from the Anglo-Welsh border, is known for its mixed Welsh and English heritage, and is the home of the Shropshire libraries ' Welsh Collection.

* Thomas Henry Jones, known as T. Harri Jones ( 1921 – 1965 ), Anglo-Welsh poet

Rhyl Athletic joined forces with Rhyl Town in 1898 and in an ambitious move switched to the Anglo-Welsh competition known as The Combination.

Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford GCVO, PC, QC ( 30 October 1828 – 18 August 1911 ), known as Sir Henry James between 1873 and 1895, was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman.

The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine ( Anne Adalisa ( Evans ) Puddicombe ) ( 1836 – 1908 ), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, " realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture ".

The Anglo-Welsh writers of the 1930s had to look to London for publication and the possibility of literary success ; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially Wales, published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960.

The expansion in the publication of Anglo-Welsh writers in Wales in journal and book form was important for the further development of Welsh writing in English.

The modern Anglo-Welsh border is also shown, for reference purposes.

The modern Anglo-Welsh border is also shown, for reference purposes.

The modern Anglo-Welsh border is also shown, for reference purposes. The Ordovices were one of the Celtic tribes living in Great Britain, before the Roman invasion of Britain.

One of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry 2008-2009 was that provisions be made for criminal trials without juries, following the Anglo-Welsh precedent.

It is also the venue for the final of the Aviva Premiership as well as the season-opening London Double Header and the Christmas holiday Big Game, and has hosted the Anglo-Welsh Cup final in the past.

He was also a literary critic, and responsible with Raymond Garlick for the success of the literary magazine Dock Leaves ( from 1949 ), later from 1957 The Anglo-Welsh Review.

On 20 March 2011, Gloucester triumphed 34-7 over Newcastle Falcons to win the Anglo-Welsh LV Cup, thus ensuring qualification for the 2011-12 Heineken Cup.

On the other hand, he became a major figure for the Anglo-Welsh poetry tradition, and his poems were included in major anthologies.

This was the club's best ever season with a thousand points being scored for the first time and the team being crowned unofficial English and Anglo-Welsh champions.

The Salusbury family is an Anglo-Welsh family notable for their social prominence, wealth, literary contributions and philanthropy.

He scored his first try for the club in the Anglo-Welsh Cup game against Worcester Warriors on 29 January 2012.

They also compete in the Anglo-Welsh LV = Cup and the European Rugby Cup competitions.

* John Nash ( architect ) ( 1752 – 1835 ), Anglo-Welsh architect

* Thomas Trevor of England ( 1586 – 1656 ), Anglo-Welsh lawyer, Member of Parliament, and judge

Some see the beginnings of true Anglo-Welsh poetry in the work of poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 89 ), Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ), and Wilfred Owen ( 1893 – 1918 ).

Another Anglo-Welsh novelist ( and playwright ) was Jack Jones ( 1884 – 1970 ), a miner's son from Merthyr Tydfil who was himself a miner from the age of 12.

Tony Conran in 2003 suggested that it was not until the late sixties, " with the ' fragments ' that were to be collected in The Sleeping Lord ( 1974 ), that his work began to enter our bloodstream and be seen as a significant part of the Anglo-Welsh renaissance ".

This included The Welsh Review ( 1939 – 1948 ), which later became Dock Leaves and then The Anglo-Welsh Review ( 1949 – 1987 ) and continues ( from 1988 ) as the New Welsh Review.

* Lewis Morris ( 1833-1907 ), poet of the Anglo-Welsh school

Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine ( 30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930 ), an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic.

* Elijah Waring, ( c. 1788 – 29 March 1857 ), Quaker and Anglo-Welsh writer

* Jones ( surname ), a common Anglo-Welsh surname

* Edward Thomas ( poet ) ( 1878 – 1917 ), Anglo-Welsh poet and journalist

* Harri Webb ( 1920 – 1994 ), Anglo-Welsh poet