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Welsh towns: fun facts

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Last updated: June 10, 2024
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The setting for the Prisoner TV series, this bizarre-looking village is also a pottery centre.
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers have a goat as part of their troops. The animals are raised near this northern seaside town.
This southern town has hosted Rugby World Cup matches and used to have a team called Moonlight Rovers.
This place on the south coast takes its name from King Sweyn Forkbeard.
An international rugby star from this Beacons town in Powys was once arrested for drunk-driving a golf buggy down the M4.
The football team from here won the 1927 FA Cup, the only non-English team ever to win it.
Paintings by artists including Michelangelo were stored in a quarry in this slate-mining town during WW2 to avert their destruction.
The last armed uprising against the state in Britain took place in this city in 1838.
To reach Anglesey, some squirrels have swum across the strait which this town takes its name from.
A man from this Denbighshire village paints in his sleep, but has no artistic skill in his waking life.
The administrative HQ of Blaenau Gwent, this was the home town of marathon world record holder Steve Jones.
This town in Powys hosts an annual bog-snorkelling contest.
1964 Olympic long jump gold medallist Lynn 'The Leap' Davies came from this southern county borough.
In 2021 in this Flintshire town, a berserk squirrel injured 18 people in a random Christmas frenzy.
Football team The New Saints represent both the English town of Oswestry and this adjacent Welsh village (which was the club's original name).
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Brecon
Bridgend
Buckley
Cardiff
Ebbw Vale
Henllan
Llandudno
Llanelli
Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain
Llanwrtyd Wells
Menai Bridge
Newport
Portmeirion
Swansea
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