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Charles Anthony Howell Bruce BLAKE was born on 1 December 1911 at Sheffield, Yorkshire. He was killed in action on 3 January 1951 aged 39. He was a member of the 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles. He was married at the time of death and his Next of Kin (Spouse) was living in Colston
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A forge was later established on the site, reputed to be the oldest in
Carmarthenshire. This and the Victorian house built on the site came into the possession of the Yelverton family when William Henry Yelverton married the heiress of John Morgan, the previous owner. It later passed by marriage to
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to the abbot of Ty Gwyn ar Taf, who defended it with obstinate valour against the assaults of the young princes by whom it was besieged. After a determined resistance, protracted till the walls of the castle were beaten down, and the whole of the garrison either slain or wounded, the abbot effected
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later in the tenth century after being drawn up at Ty Gwyn. In order to give greater solemnity to this convocation, and to implore the divine wisdom to assist their counsels, the king remained here with his whole court during Lent, in the constant exercise of prayer and other acts of devotion.
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the Blake family, who were given royal permission to adopt the additional name of
Yelverton. When Major Anthony Blake, DSO MC Royal Ulster Rifles was killed in Korea in 1951 his widow sold the estate to a Mr. Legge after which the estate was sold piecemeal to local farmers.
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Of the royal palace of Ty Gwyn, which was comparatively a small building, designed chiefly for a hunting seat, no vestiges are discernible, only the grass-covered foundations of the walls.
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in the 10th century and a grand national council was held here around the year 940. The council had the purpose of compiling and enacting the code of laws, which are still known as "the
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