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Aberystwyth
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Aberystwyth (ăb'ərĭst`wĭth), town (1991 pop. 10,250), Ceredigion, W Wales, on Cardigan Bay. It is a summer resort and cultural center. Before the construction of railroads, Aberystwyth was a coastal trading center. The town is the seat of a constituent institution of the Univ. of Wales and of the National Library of Wales, which has an outstanding collection of Welsh manuscripts.

Aberystwyth

Town (pop., 1991: 11,154) on Cardigan Bay, western Wales. The medieval walled town was built around a 13th-century fortress. It later became the exporter for the once-flourishing local lead mines. A principal stronghold of Welsh culture, it has grown as a seaside resort.


Aberystwyth
a resort and university town in Wales, in Ceredigion on Cardigan Bay. Pop.: 15 935 (2001)


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It calls at Coopers Arms, Aberyswyth on October 28, Ta lbot Hotel, Tregaron on October 29 and Crymych Rugby Club on October 30 - with a cask of beer and a charity cash prize up for grabs.
In the early 1950s he bought a hotel in Aberyswyth.
They saved a 15-year-old girl from the sea shortly before Paul, of Aberyswyth, was jailed for heroin dealing.
 
 
 
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