Furnace, Tredegar 1813,Tredegar Iron Works,(village)Tredegar 1827, Tredegar...a rising market town 1842.
Named from Tredegar Iron Works which were established by the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. on land near the r. Sirhywi leased from Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar House (ST2885), Basaleg. The first furnaces appeared in 1800 and housing including the 'Tredegar Arms' had been built by 1802. Evan Powell in his history of Tredegar says that the n. was fixed by 1805. A seperate p. 1838-40 after the construction of St George's ch. Tredegar is (o) Dre Degyr late 15cent, Tredeger (a fair place), Tredegar 1536-9, tredegyr ymassalec c.1550, Tredeger 1565, (o) Dredeger late 16cent, probably meaning 'fm. (tref) or settlement of Tegyr'. The pers.n. also occures in Botegyr DNB. Bradney and others thought that the pn. referred to Teigr ap Tegonwy, 'one of the knights of Arthur's round table'; the pn. was also the subject of over-imaginative antiquarians who misinterpreted it as 'thirty acres' (tri deg erw which found its way onto the OS 1in. map 1833), fair leasent earth fm.' (tref, daear,teg and other ridiculous explanations.
Originally posted by roger davies: St Dial’s Chapel This has now vanished under the grounds of the police college, but its ruins were still visible until the 1960s and it has given its name to the St Dial’s district of Cwmbran. Writing in 1923, Sir Joseph Bradney described it as a ruined house which had obviously once been a mansion but was probably on the site of the former chapel. Nothing is known of St Dial, but there was another chapel to him at St Dial’s Wood near Monmouth, on a site which has now vanished under the A40. Here he is variously named St Dial, St Duellus, St Deuis and even St Davie.
I recently visited the new waterfront museum in Swansea. There is only one word for it, and that's "rubbish".
It's just another huge glass building with nothing in it. Where are the exhibits? If I wanted to watch TV or read, I could do that at home. In a museum you need real things not films about them. However, this is the way Wales is. Big glass buildings with nothing in them. The new hospital in Port Talbot is a big glass building lacking doctors. The Millennium Centre in Cardiff is a big glass building lacking events and the new Assembly will be a big glass building lacking backbone. So a museum without artifacts is no shock.
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Originally posted by Owain Glyndwr: Considering some of the 'facts' coming out tonight I wouldn't comment on this matter.....its going to get 'legal' by the look of things
