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Glamorganshire became a more stable county and exploited its natural resources, to become an
important part of the Industrial Revolution. Glamorgan was the most populous and industrialized county in
Wales. It was once called the crucible of the Industrial Revolution as it contained the most resources.
Metallurgical industries and its rich resources of coal flourished. The County of Glamorgan was comprised
of several disparate distinct regions.

[1] the industrial valleys,

[2] the agricultural valleys and
[3] the scenic lower Peninsula.
It was approximately eight hundred (811) square miles in size and the total population of the three
counties in1991 was 1,200,000. The most famous city was Cardiff. A county town until1555 where it
was the capital city of Wales. The highest area was about 2,000 feet high which was situated near the
village of Kerry.

Chapter 05 Chapter 05 --
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The earlier John was born in Morganshire in Wales He was born in the 1600s-1687 and it was
called Gla Morgan gyre arm Glamorgan and it was in Wales. There wb River referred to as both_Glamorgan
and Morgan gyre, it is Welsh. It was the former administrative County of Wales.flt was originally a mid-evil
petty kingdom of varying boundaries until taken over by the Normans. The lordship, represented by the
three preserved counties of mid-level warrants, Southern and then West Glamorgan. My name also
survives in that the veil of Glamorgan.

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Chapter 06 Chapter 06 --

Trecastle ("the town of the castle") is named after Castle recastle and a Motte, an early 11th-
century Norman motte-and-bailey fortification, built by Bernard de Neufmarche and designed to protect
them from attack from the west. Despite this purpose, the area continued to be threatened, with Edward I
of England spending three days in Trecastle quelling a revolt in 1295.
The old castle name of 'una villa nostra de Lliwel' was changed by the end of the Medieval era to
the local name Trecastle, "the town of the castle". The fortification still exists at the east end of the village
and the mote at 6.6 m high is the largest of its type in the National Park.

From around the 12th century, the Bishop of St David's, owned the land to the west of the
brook and Trecastle was thus used as a staging post en route to the Cathedral. After leaving the
stopping point the road is thought to have turned to follow the Roman Road near Y Pigwn. Centuries

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