Williams, Rob Howley, Gavin Henson, Mike Hall and Dafydd James; many talented athletes at other local schools join Brynteg to play for the school in the Welsh School Rugby Union leagues. Bridgend (English: /brɪˈdʒɛnd/; Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just Pen-y-bont, meaning "the end of the (or the main) bridge on the Ogmore")[2] is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, 20 miles (32 km) west of the capital Cardiff and 20 miles (32 km) east of Swansea. Use the form below to find your perfect car from our extensive stock of approved vehicles. This 8.2% increase was the largest increase in Wales except for Cardiff. Bridgend is on the National Cycle Route and there are off-road spurs from the Celtic Trail to the town centre and a community route[clarification needed] in the Ogmore Valley. The Crusaders' application for a Super League licence was granted by the Rugby Football League on 22 July 2008. As of June 2016, the local Member of Parliament is Madeleine Moon (Labour), the Member of the Senedd for Bridgend is Carwyn Jones AM (Labour) along with regional AMs (for South West Wales) Suzy Davies AM (Conservative), Bethan Jenkins AM (Plaid Cymru), Dai Lloyd AM (Plaid Cymru) and Caroline Jones AM (Brexit Party). For the wider principal area, named after the town, see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Archbishop McGrath Catholic Comprehensive, Category:People from Bridgend County Borough, "Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales", "Ewenny and St Brides Major – Parish Control", "Multi-disciplinary investigations at PoW Camp 198, Bridgend, S. 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It is for students of primary and secondary school ages with severe learning disabilities. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Museum of the Scottish shale oil industry - Bridgend Rows, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridgend,_West_Lothian&oldid=966484121, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 July 2020, at 11:09. Show Prices. There are also services to Manchester Piccadilly. This action was ideal as geographically, Bridgend stands equidistantly between Swansea to the west and Cardiff to the east. This was 97% of the Welsh average (£498.10). [13], Studies were carried out by the local council with a view to improving retail provision in the town centre. The Vale of Glamorgan would have been a natural low-level route west to the Roman fort and harbour at Neath (Nidum) from settlements in the east like Cardiff and Caerleon (Isca). Gross disposable income for Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot in 2006 stood at £3,338 million or £12,379 per head. [9] Car parking provision and pricing have also been a concern to retailers with calls for free or reduced-price parking to increase town centre visits.[10]. The store was opened on 31 March 2008 by the local MP, and players from Bridgend Ravens. Since 1995 the town has been covered by three wards to Bridgend County Borough Council, Morfa, Oldcastle and Newcastle, which each elect two councillors. Subsequent floods and extreme weather led the Welsh Water Authority to develop concrete flood defence walls along the banks of the River Ogmore in the town centre. The club were promoted from Division 5 Central in 2001, were WRU Division Four East Champions in 2002, were then promoted from Division 3 to WRU Division Two West in 2003 through the league organisation and were promoted to Division 1 in 2004. Local committees, together with the council, started to use the pedestrianisation of the town centre to its advantage, culminating in several fairs including Continental Markets, Celtic Festivals, a small Mardi-Gras, and seasonal markets and events. GP's surgeries are scattered throughout the town, as are dentists. Bridgend Sports Also, two special-educational needs schools are there: Heronsbridge School which is linked with Brynteg Comprehensive School and at the back of Bridgend College. This article is about the town. Groups of Norman barons arrived in Wales, and in the south and east created what would later become the Welsh Marches, while the north and west remained largely unconquered. Bridgend railway station has regular services to Cardiff Central, Bristol Parkway and London Paddington to the east; Port Talbot Parkway, Neath, Swansea and the West Wales Line to the west; and Maesteg to the north. For scheduled and chartered air travel, Bridgend is served by Cardiff International Airport, to which there are direct rail and bus services. Several prehistoric burial mounds have been found in the vicinity of Bridgend, suggesting that the area was settled before Roman times. During this time, Bridgend was chosen to become the headquarters for South Wales Police. The factory complex had three sites in Bridgend, all linked together by a large network of railways. By the beginning of the 20th century this had risen to 61,000. This was 88% of UK per head figure (£14,053) and slightly above the Welsh per head figure (£12,366). Ford has invested £315million in the Bridgend plant over 5 years.[21]. There are out-of-town shopping areas at Waterton, near the A473, on Cowbridge Road and at The Derwen, Junction 36 of the M4, home to the Bridgend Designer Outlet. Bridgend hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1948. Bridgend County Borough Council is led by the Welsh Labour Party, which has been running a minority administration since the May 2017 local elections. [34] There were high points for the region: 10,000 turned up to watch them face European champions-in-waiting London Wasps and even beat the Wasps 9–14[35] at Adam's Park a week earlier. Newcastle Castle (on Newcastle Hill, overlooking the town centre, 1106) and Ogmore Castle (1116) were built by Robert Fitzhamon and William de Londres, respectively.

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