Where is Bonvilston? Bonvilston – Tresimwn is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The village is located on the A48 near Cardiff. It is named after Simon de Bonville, a Norman nobleman who lived there in the 12th century. Although its meaning is slightly different in English and Welsh (Bonville’s town – Simon’s […]
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Where is St Nicholas? St. Nicholas – Sain Nicolas is a small village near Wenvoe in the Vale of Glamorgan. How the village got its name is unclear, but it may well be after Saint Nicholas, the saint who was born in a former Greek area of southern Turkey. The same Saint Nicholas was known
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Where is Wenvoe? Wenvoe – Gwenfô is a village and community between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales and it began life centuries ago, as a farming community. In the last 100 years Wenvoe has doubled in size and with even more recent housing developments is slowly merging with the outer belt
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Where is Aberthaw? Aberthaw – Aberddawan is made up of the villages of East Aberthaw and West Aberthaw. It is about 5 miles from Barry along the Glamorgan Heritage Coastline. Aberthaw get its name from the Welsh word ‘Aber’, meaning estuary or river mouth, of the river Thaw. The existence of a safe, natural harbour
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