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COWBRIDGE , a See also:market See also:town and a municipal and contributory See also:parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, with a station on the Taff Vale railway See also:branch from See also:Llantrisant to Aberthaw on the See also:coast, distant by See also:rail 1622 m. from See also:London, 12 M. W. of See also:Cardiff, 7 M. S.E. of See also:Bridgend, and 6 m. S. of Llantrisant station. The See also:population in 1901 was 1202, a decrease of over 12 % since 1891. Less than one-third of the number was Welsh-speaking. The town mainly consists of one See also:long See also:street See also:running See also:east and See also:west, and is in a wide valley through which
runs the See also:river Thaw (Welsh, Ddawan), here crossed by a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridge.
Cowbridge is probably situated on the See also:Roman road from Cardiff westwards, which seems to have kept nearly the course of the See also:present See also:main road. Roman coins have been discovered here. It has in fact been suggested, mainly on etymological grounds, that the town occupies the site of the Roman Bovium: the See also:modern Welsh name, y Bontfaen (" stone bridge ") is probably a corruption of the See also:medieval, See also:Pont y f6n, the precise See also:equivalent of " Cowbridge," which is first found in documents of the second See also:half of the r3th See also:century as Covbruge and Cubrigg. Others See also:place Bovium on a vicinal road, at Boverton near Llantwit See also:Major, about 6 m. to the See also:south near the coast, though the most likely site is near Ewenny, 5 M. to the west of Cow-bridge. After the See also:Norman See also:conquest of Glamorgan, the town See also:grew up as an See also:appanage of the See also:castle of St Quentin, which occupies a commanding position half a mile south-west of the town. It was walled See also:round before the 13th century. A See also:tower is mentioned in 1487 when it was granted away by the burgesses. See also:Leland in his itinerary (c. 1535) describes the town See also:wall as three-quarters of a mile round and as having three See also:gates. There was even then a considerable suburb on the west See also:bank of the river
and outside the walls. The south wall and gateway are still See also:standing.
The town was a borough by See also:prescription until 1682, when it received a See also:charter of See also:incorporation from See also:Charles II. confirming its previous privileges. Under the Unreformed Corporations See also:Act of 1883 the See also:corporation was dissolved, but on the See also:petition of the inhabitants a new charter was granted in See also:March 1887. During the Tudor and See also:Stuart periods Cowbridge was almost
if not quite the See also:chief town of Glamorgan, its importance being largely due to its central and accessible position in a See also:rich agri-
cultural See also:district where a large number of the See also:county gentry lived.
The See also:great sessions were held here alternately with Cardiff and See also:Swansea from 1542 till their abolition in 183o, and the See also:quarter
sessions were held here once a See also:year down to 185o. From 1536 to 1832 it was one of the eight contributory boroughs within the county which returned a member to See also:parliament, but since 1832 it has been contributory with Cardiff and Llantrisant in returning a member. It has a See also:separate See also:commission of the See also:peace. See also:Sir See also:Edward Stradling (1529–1609) established a See also:grammar school here, but died before endowing it; it was refounded in 1685 by Sir Leoline See also:Jenkins, who provided that it should be administered by Jesus See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, which See also:body erected the present buildings in 1847. It has throughout its existence been one of the leading See also:schools in Wales. An intermediate school for girls was established here by the county in 1896. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary (formerly chapelry to Llanblethian) is of See also:early See also:English See also:style and has a See also:fine embattled tower, of the same military
' A connexion has also been imagined with cow (O. Eng. cu; See also:common in Scandinavian See also:languages, and of similar See also:root to Skr. go, whence also Gr. &Ds, See also:Lat. See also:bos), the See also:female bovine See also:animal, on See also:account of its timidity.
type as the towers of Llamblethian and Ewenny. There are three See also:Nonconformist chapels. There are a town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and market place. The town is now wholly dependent on See also:agriculture, and has See also:good markets and See also:cattle fairs, that on the 4th of May being a charter See also:fair.
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