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The Welsh Marches Line ( in Welsh: Llinell y Mers ), known historically as the North and West Route, is the railway line running from Newport in south-east Wales to Shrewsbury in the West Midlands region of England by way of Abergavenny, Hereford and Craven Arms and thence ( by some definitions ) to Crewe via Whitchurch.
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Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches.
Owing to its geographical location the town was frequently embroiled in the border warfare and power play of the 12th and 13th centuries in the Welsh Marches.
Abergavenny railway station opened 2 January 1854 and is on the Welsh Marches Line.
Category: Towns of the Welsh Marches
English law shall apply to holdings of land in England, Welsh law to those in Wales, and the law of the Marches to those in the Marches.
Traditional franchise jurisdictions of various powers were held by municipal corporations, religious houses, guilds, early universities, Welsh Marches, and Counties Palatine.
She appears to have spent three years in the Welsh Marches, making regular visits to her father's court, before returning permanently to the home counties around London in mid-1528.
Glyndŵr was born circa 1354 ( possibly 1359 ) to a prosperous landed family, part of the Anglo-Welsh gentry of the Welsh Marches ( the border between England and Wales ) in northeast Wales.
Glyndŵr was born and lived much of his life around Wrexham and the Welsh Marches.
Stephen himself went west in an attempt to regain control of Gloucestershire, first striking north into the Welsh Marches, taking Hereford and Shrewsbury, before heading south to Bath.
Although there had been few new defections to the Empress, his enemies now controlled a compact block of territory stretching out from Gloucester and Bristol south-west into Devon and Cornwall, west into the Welsh Marches and east as far as Oxford and Wallingford, threatening London.
Today, the England-Wales border still mostly follows the dyke through the Welsh Marches.
The name Mercia is Old English for " boundary folk " ( see Welsh Marches ), and the traditional interpretation is that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the native Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
Edward was created Prince of Wales in June 1471, following Edward IV's restoration to the throne, and in 1473 was established at Ludlow Castle on the Welsh Marches as nominal president of a newly-created Council of Wales and the Marches.
Edward ignored the law in favour of Despenser: when Lord de Braose of Gower sold his title to his son-in-law, an action entirely lawful in the Welsh Marches, Despenser demanded the king grant Gower to him instead.
Category: Towns of the Welsh Marches
This Council normally sat in Ludlow, now in England but at that time still part of the disputed border area in the Welsh Marches.
The Despensers were opposed to both the Lancastrians and their other allies in the Welsh Marches, making an easy alliance with Edward, who sought revenge for the death of Gaveston.
The Despensers were bitter enemies of Lancaster, and with Edward's support began to increase their power base in the Welsh Marches, in the process making enemies of Roger Mortimer de Chirk and his nephew, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, their rival Marcher lords.
This was a base for repelling Welsh attacks and a secure stronghold for English kings such as King Henry IV when on campaign in the Welsh Marches against Owain Glyndŵr.
Hereford is served by a 4-platform railway station on the Welsh Marches Line which opened in 1854.
Welsh and Line
In August 1894 he passed his examination for Second Mate and accepted a post as third officer on a tramp steamer of the Welsh Shire Line.
The township is part of the Pennsylvania Main Line and of the Welsh Tract.
It is part of the " Main Line ", a string of leafy, picturesque suburbs with quaint Welsh names extending west from Philadelphia along the old Pennsylvania Railroad's " main line " from Merion through Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Villanova, Devon and Wayne among other towns and municipalities.
Valley Lines became Wales & Borders from October 2001 combining its services with most of Wales & West's Welsh services and the Cambrian Line services from Central Trains.
* Hourly services operate via Crewe, Shrewsbury and the Welsh Marches Line to Cardiff Central, with services continuing to Carmarthen or Milford Haven.
The Conwy Valley Line runs to the North Wales coast at Llandudno Junction with links to Chester, Holyhead / Caergybi ( Welsh ), Manchester and the rest of the UK.
Cwmbrân railway station is served by trains on the Welsh Marches Line., with through trains south to Newport and Cardiff.
Davies played Mog in the classic Welsh film Grand Slam ( 1978 ) and played the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line ( 1971 ).
Newport railway station is connected directly to the South Wales Main Line branch of the Great Western Main Line, Welsh Marches Line and Gloucester to Newport Line.
Whitchurch railway station is on the former London and North Western ( later part of the LMS ) line from Crewe down the English side of the Welsh border ( the Welsh Marches Line ) toward Cardiff.
It is also on an extension of the West coast main line towards London via Crewe, Welsh Marches Line services towards both Cardiff and Manchester travel via Wrexham on a regular basis.
There are four railway stations in the district-Yorton, Wem, Prees and Whitchurch-all on the Welsh Marches Line.
The road travels over the Shropshire Union Canal and under the Welsh Marches Line railway ( to Hereford ) south of Tiverton.
The Welsh Marches Line follows to the west.
It passes near Lyth Hill Country Park, following the Welsh Marches Line ( until Wooferton ).
The language boundary between this region and the area to the north where Welsh is more common, sometimes known as the Landsker Line, is noted for its sharpness and resilience.
Bala Cynwyd ( locally, or, not the original Welsh: ) is a community in Lower Merion Township which is located on the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia at US Route 1 ( City Avenue ).
The nearest railway station is at Yorton on the Welsh Marches Line for Shrewsbury / Crewe.
Only the Welsh Marches Line itself and Harlescott Crossing and its signal box, remain.
Welsh and Llinell
The Conwy Valley Line ( Welsh: Llinell Dyffryn Conwy ) is a railway line in north Wales.
The Cambrian Line ( Welsh: Llinell Cambria ) is a railway from Shrewsbury ( in Shropshire, England ) to Welshpool, Aberystwyth and Pwllheli.
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