For a full list of all historic Benedictine houses in England & Wales see below.

* Canal & River Trust, the charitable trust in charge of England and Wales ' canal nework.

The census of England & Wales is undertaken for the government by the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ).

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* England & Wales

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

The Homicide Act 1957 is the statutory basis for the defense of diminished responsibility in England & Wales, whereas in Scotland it is a product of case law.

* Download: Lord Stevens ' 832-page Operation Paget Report Into The Deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed & Henri Paul 14 December 2006

* Paget, Gerald ( 1977 ) The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.

These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St Asaph in the town of Corwen, possibly in the church of SS Mael & Sulien.

Plaid has the third-largest number of seats in the National Assembly for Wales, after Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservative & Unionist Party, and participated with the former in the coalition agreement in the Assembly before the 2011 election.

* The legal and political union of Wales with England is reinforced by An Acte for Lawes & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme.

In continental France ( metropolitan France, excluding Corsica ), the median land area of a department is, which is two-and-a-half times the median land area of a ceremonial county of England & Wales and slightly more than three-and-half times the median land area of a county of the United States.

At the 2001 census, the median population of a department in continental France was 511, 012 inhabitants, which is 21 times the median population of a U. S. county, but less than two-thirds of the median population of a ceremonial county of England & Wales.

Slate tiles were used in 19th century UK building construction ( apart from roofs ) and in slate quarrying areas such as Blaenau Ffestiniog & Bethesda, Wales there are still many buildings wholly constructed of slate.

* John Edward Lloyd ( 1911 ) A history of Wales: from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest ( Longmans, Green & Co .)

* John Edward Lloyd ( 1911 ) A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest ( Longmans, Green & Co .)

Other finds are now held at the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cardiff: Early Bronze Age, or Beaker, collared urn pottery ; flaked knives ; a scraper ; flint flakes ; a bone spatula ; a needle & bead ; and animal bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog.

The heraldic beasts carved by Ben Harms and Ray Gonzalez of G & H Studios includes The Golden Lion of England, The White Greyhound of Richmond, The Red Dragon of Wales and the White Hart of Richard II, are all carved from English oak.

In the three jurisdictions of the UK ( Northern Ireland ; England & Wales ; and Scotland ) there are only two standards of proof in trials.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

* Bethan Jenkins-member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales ( West ) Region

Crown Green Bowls is very popular mostly in the North of England but also in Wales, West Midlands and Shropshire.

CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.

Aside from Granada, the programme originally appeared on the following stations of the ITV network: Anglia Television, Associated-Rediffusion, Television Wales and the West, Scottish Television, Southern Television and Ulster Television.

In September Thomas and Caitlin moved to New Quay in West Wales which inspired Thomas to pen the radio piece Quite Early One Morning, a sketch for his later work, Under Milk Wood.

His mother, Mary Catherine Williams, was born in the British West Indies ; her father was from Wales.

* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

On 31 May 1989, Wales played its first international game against West Germany at the National Stadium in a World Cup qualifying match, which ended goalless.

for the television contractor Television Wales and the West.

The first Australian motels include the West End Motel in Ballina, New South Wales ( 1937 ) and the Penzance Motel in Eagle Hawk, Tasmania ( 1939 ).

* Pembrokeshire peninsula, West Wales

In medieval times and later, the Ridgeway found use by drovers, moving their livestock from the West Country and Wales to markets in the Home Counties and London.

In North and West Wales, Welsh is widely spoken as a first language, but much less so in the more English dominated South East of the country.

However, senior politicians of all main parties have voiced concerns in regard to the West Lothian Question, which is raised where certain policies for England are set by MPs from all four constituent nations whereas similar policies for Scotland or Wales might be decided in the devolved assemblies by legislators from those countries alone.

The production was very well received and transferred to London's West End opening at the Prince Edward Theatre in October 1998, transferring to the Prince of Wales Theatre where it closed in January 2000.

* The Battle of Chester ( Old Welsh: Guaith Caer Legion ; Welsh: Brwydr Caer ) which separated the ( West ) Welsh from the ' North ' Welsh of Cumbria-marking the formation of Wales.

In 1869, Spanish cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor moved his Principe de Gales ( Prince of Wales ) operations from the important cigar manufacturing center of Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida to escape the turmoil of the Ten Years ' War.

South Wales border accents are influenced by West Country accents.

Monmouth is located beside the A40 dual carriageway road that links the M4 motorway at Newport in South Wales with the M50 motorway at Ross-on-Wye ; this connects in turn with the M5 motorway south of Worcester in the West Midlands.

Monmouth is now primarily a centre for service industries and tourism, and its good road communications have encouraged commuting to larger centres in the West Midlands, South Wales, and Bristol.

The local court serves the town and the rest of North West Wales, and in 2009 moved to a multi-million pound court complex on Llanberis Road.

Domesday Book ( or ), now held at The National Archives, Kew, in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086.