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BRIDGEND

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIDGEND , a See also:

market See also:town in the See also:southern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, on both sides of the See also:river Ogwr (whence its Welsh name Penybont-ar-Ogwr). Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901.) 6062. It has a station 165 m. from See also:London on the See also:South Wales See also:trunk See also:line of the See also:Great Western railway, and is the junction of the See also:Barry See also:Company's railway to Barry via Llantwit See also:Major. Bridgend has a See also:good market for agricultural produce, and is an important centre owing to its being the natural outlet for the See also:mining valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and the two Ogwr See also:rivers, which converge about 3 M. See also:north of the town and are connected with it by See also:branch lines of the Great Western railway. Though without large manufacturing See also:industries, the town has See also:joinery See also:works, a See also:brass and See also:iron foundry, a tannery and brewery. There are See also:brick-works and See also:stone quarries, and much See also:lime is burnt in the neighbourhood. Just outside the town at Angelton and See also:Pare Gwyllt are the Glamorgan See also:county lunatic asylums. There was no See also:civil See also:parish of Bridgend previous to 1905, when one was formed out of portions of the parishes of See also:Newcastle and Coity. Of the See also:castle of Newcastle, built on the edge of a cliff above the See also:church of that parish, there remain a courtyard with flanking towers and a See also:fine See also:Norman gateway. At Coity, about 2 M. distant, there are more extensive ruins of its castle, originally the seat of the Turbervilles, lords of Coity, but now belonging to the earls of Dunraven. Coity church, dating from the 14th See also:century, is a fine cruciform See also:building with central embattled See also:tower in See also:Early Decorated See also:style.

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