Risca (Welsh: Rhisga) is a town of approximately 11,500 people in south-east Wales, within the Caerphilly County Borough and the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is today part of the Newport conurbation (which as a whole has a population of 140,200), though it is not a Ward of Newport City Council. Risca has a railway station, opened on the Ebbw Valley Railway in February 2008, after a gap of 46 years.
Population: 20,443
Latitude: 51° 36' 28.76" N
Longitude: -3° 06' 2.92" W
Hawthorn High School (Welsh: Ysgol Uwchradd Y Ddraenen-Wen) is an English-medium comprehensive school in the village of Hawthorn near Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, in the Country of Wales, United Kingdom.
The Grwyne Fawr is a river in the Brecon Beacons National Park in south Wales. A section of it forms the administrative border between Powys and Monmouthshire and also of the historic counties of Brecon and Monmouth.
Groes-faen is a village approximately three miles south of Llantrisant in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Glyncoch is a village to the north of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
The Glamorgan Building is an Edwardian former county hall located in Cardiff, Wales. It is situated in the civic centre in Cathays Park, on King Edward VII Avenue.
Gilwern is a village in Monmouthshire, Wales. The name translates from the Welsh Y Gilwern (from cil-gwern) as "the recess (or bend) of the alders", probably a reference to its position at the point where the Clydach Gorge opens out into the Usk Val…
Gaer (Welsh: Y Gaer) is a community and electoral district ("ward") of the city of Newport, South Wales.
Fishponds railway station was a station in Fishponds, Bristol, England, a victim of Dr Beeching's cuts in the 1960s.
Falfield is a village, located near the northern border of the South Gloucestershire district of Gloucestershire, England on the southern edge of the Berkeley Vale, to the east of the River Severn and just falling into the boundary of the Cotswolds.…
Eugene Cross Park is a rugby and cricket ground in Ebbw Vale, Wales. In November 1919 the Ebbw Vale Welfare Association was formed and bought the "Bridgend Field". The 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land became known as the Welfare Ground, and in 1973 its n…
Easter Compton is a village in the civil parish of Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire, England.
Duffryn (Welsh: Dyffryn) is a large housing estate [1] in the southwest of the city of Newport, south Wales comprising a large portion of the Tredegar Park electoral district (ward). Built on land belonging to Tredegar House [2], it was completed in…
Downend School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, situated on Westerleigh Road in the suburban village of Downend in South Gloucestershire, England.
The Doctor Who campfire trailer is a forty-second television trailer which promoted the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Filmed on one day in a studio, it stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate as the fourth…
Dinas Powys railway station is one of two railway stations serving the village of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line 4½ miles (7 km) south of Cardiff Central towards Bridgend (via Barry and…
Denny Island (grid reference ST459810) is a small rocky island of 0.24 hectares (0.6 acres), with scrub vegetation, in the Severn Estuary. Its rocky southern foreshore marks the boundary between England and Wales. Above high water mark, the island i…
Cwmfelinfach is a small village located in the Sirhowy valley of south-east Wales. It is part of the district of Caerphilly within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.
Crosskeys railway station is a station on the Ebbw Valley Railway in Wales.