Caerphilly
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Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) is a town in Glamorgan, Wales, located at the bottom of the Rhymney Valley. It is the site of Caerphilly Castle, built between 1268 and 1271, and is the main town in the county borough of Caerphilly.
In 1899 the Rhymney Railway built their maintenance facilities, however the expansion of the population in the nineteenth century was more to do with the increasing market for coal.
Trivia
- Caerphilly is the birth place of Tommy Cooper.[link]
- Caerphilly is featured in the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury. Protests and a prayer meeting were held outside the Castle Cinema on the evening of December 14th, 1976, when the Pistols were playing a concert there.
- Caerphilly cheese originated in this area.
- Caerphilly hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1950.
- Caerphilly has the most energetic and forward looking environmental Registered Charity in the region. [link] The Caerphilly Woodlands Trust - run purely by volunteers.
- Caerphilly RFC is based in Caerphilly.
- Dennis Spargo, creator of the film Machen: Then & Now, lived in Caerphilly for several years until 2006.
Twin towns
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