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02 Sunday Sep 2012

Posted by laurencereade in H

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baked potatoes, Book Town, Bronllys, Chris Berezai, film braveheart, Gavin Perry, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, Hay on Wye, Hay St Marys, Kevin Jones, Lee Brooks, Mid Wales Hop, Mid Wales League, Mid Wales South, real ales, Steve Goodwin, Talgarth, Town

Saturday 25th August 2012 ko 7.30pm

Mid-Wales League Division 2

HAY ST MARYS 3 (K Jones 26 Goodwin 44p 49)

TALGARTH TOWN 2 (Perry 7 Brooks 87)

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A quirk of the journey from Presteigne to Hay-on-Wye, is that you spend the vast majority of it in England, ducking back across the Wye only to enter this pretty bibliophile town. That’s right, Hay is Wales’ book town, the English and Scottish equivalents being Sedbergh and Wigtown. It is Hay though which started the practice, although there’s more to the place than just the 30 or so second hand bookshops.

There’s two castles, which as the border has moved over the centuries, have frequently changed hands. The town only really settled down when Wales was taken over by King Edward I Longshanks Continue reading →

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