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The Lake of Winter Dwelling

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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Cae Maes Murig, Corey Sinnott, Gwalchmai, Llanberis, Llyn Hendref, Marc Evans, Rhys Parry, Steve Sinclair, Welsh Groundhop

Saturday 24th August 2013 ko 15.45

Welsh Alliance Division One

GWALCHMAI 5 (Sinnott 19 Evans 36 38  83 S Sinclair 54)

LLANBERIS 1 (R Parry 88)

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It didn’t take long to get from Gaerwen to Gwalchmai, passing the Anglesey Showground along the way. The village is named after the 12th-century court poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr. Just to the north is a small lake Llyn Hendref, or to translate, The Lake of Winter Dwelling. Not that there was anything remotely wintery about Cae Maes Murig, set as it is behind a ribbon of social housing and in front of farmland with Snowdonia behind. It was determinedly t-shirt weather, and the ground surprised many, me included. Continue reading →

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Western Star

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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Gaerwen, Liam Jones, Maes Merddyn, Mathew Hughes, Paul Roberts, Penrhyndeudrath, Steve Jones, Welsh Alliance, Welsh Groundhop

Saturday 24th August 2013 ko 12.45

Welsh Alliance Division 2

GAERWEN 0

PENRHYNDEUDRAETH 5 (Roberts 33 Hughes 45p 79 S Jones 68 L Jones 88) Hughes missed penalty 30

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We were a little tight for time in reaching Gaerwen after the groundhop’s opener at Llanfairpwll, but had enough time for a little coach tour round the local cattle market, before our drivers Colin and Neil decided to drop the passengers off at Maes Merddyn before returning to the market to park up.

The village of Gaerwen is best known as being the southern terminus of the Anglesey Central Railway which was in use between 1864 and 1993. The station was only the Holyhead to Bangor line until being closed to passenger traffic under the Beeching axe in 1963. The tiny village of Star is situated to the east of Gaerwen.

On arrival the ground was a hive of activity. Continue reading →

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