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Offline SteveH

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6720 on: July 17, 2020, 06:35:31 pm »
The Valley Wetlands, formerly known as Valley Lakes, is a wonderful nature reserve in Anglesey which gives you the opportunity to see wildfowl all year round. Look out for tufted ducks, pochards, shovelers, gadwalls and grebes around its reed-fringed lakes when you visit.

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« Reply #6721 on: July 17, 2020, 10:23:14 pm »
Thanks for all that info Steve,  I'll have to pay it a visit as I haven't been there before..

Meanwhile where was I on Thursday?     Think Cymraeg        $walesflag$


Offline Bri Roberts

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6722 on: July 17, 2020, 10:50:40 pm »
Alongside Afon Cegin?

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« Reply #6723 on: July 18, 2020, 07:01:28 am »
A good guess Bri and I can see why you thought that but it's not correct.

This marshy reserve is much further east

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6724 on: July 18, 2020, 10:05:28 am »
Some years ago if you visited this reserve you would have seen the Marsh Warden before you went in, now where is it?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6725 on: July 18, 2020, 10:42:57 am »
Cors Ddyga marshes on Anglesey ?

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« Reply #6726 on: July 18, 2020, 11:34:52 am »
Good try Steve but it's not in Anglesey,  Gwynedd or Conwy

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6727 on: July 18, 2020, 11:53:11 am »
Burton Mere Wetlands is a nature reserve on the Dee Estuary ...........   This seems a bit far, for your normal trips, but best guess.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6728 on: July 18, 2020, 12:27:59 pm »
Too far away for me Steve but you have worked hard on this one.

One more clue and if you can't find it then I'll tell you the answer

You can possibly see the sites  of four castles from this spot on the Welsh marsh       $wales              ?{}?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6729 on: July 18, 2020, 02:35:29 pm »
Hugo, I think it is the Rhuddlan Marsh Nature Reserve.  I am struggling a bit with the castles though.  Rhuddlan of course, possibly Denbigh, maybe Dyserth and, at a push, Gwrych on a clear day and on tip toes!  The old railway was the line from Foryd Junction to Corwen.  Rhuddlan station itself closed in 1956 but the goods yard was in use for coal and for camping coaches for a few years afterwards, looked after by staff at Denbigh.  The line from Ruthin to Corwen closed completely in 1961 the through route having been used by the summer "Land Cruise" trains and special excursions until then.  All traffic ceased in 1967 and the line abandoned with the usual short-sightedness.

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« Reply #6730 on: July 18, 2020, 03:04:56 pm »
Well what can I say, you've beaten me again and come up with the correct answer and a lot of interesting info as well.           $good$

Well done for guessing the Morfa Rhuddlan Nature Reserve.     We stopped there on Thursday to have a look around the Reserve and had our sandwiches in the car..
It's only a small reserve and after you leave the car park to go into the reserve, the first part is a gentle uphill walk that once went over the train tunnel.on that line you described
I hadn't thought of Denbigh Castle but the ones I was thinking of were Gwrych Castle,   Dyserth Castle,   Rhuddlan Castle and the earlier motte and bailey castle at Twt Hill  Rhuddlan

Do you remember the Marsh Warden?     It was a pub on a corner across the road but that has long since been demolished as has the foundry and other buildings too

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6731 on: July 18, 2020, 04:54:35 pm »
I've attached some old photos of the Rhuddlan Railway Station and that bridge in one of the photos may be where the Morfa Rhuddlan Nature Reserve is now

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6732 on: July 18, 2020, 06:40:00 pm »
Thanks, Hugo.  Nice to see the photos.  I made a typo in the previous entry, the all traffic on the line to Denbigh ended was 1968. There were four camping coaches on a siding adjacent to a loading platform (behind the coal truck shown in the middle photo). They were there from 1955 to 1968.  BR saw North Wales as an ideal area for the siting of these facilities - in addition to Rhuddlan, there were ones at Glan Conwy, Betws y Coed (a Pullman car!), Aber, Abergele (9 here), and, briefly, at Pont y Pant and Roman Bridge.

I do remember the Marsh Warden but don't recall ever having gone there.  You can still see the occasional metal grid in local roads bearing the legend "Rhuddlan Foundry" - mainly road gullies in rural areas.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6733 on: July 25, 2020, 11:10:43 am »
I am finally able to contribute something after going out and about for the first time since March.
Hope everyone is keeping well.
Where in Wales would you see this fellow?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6734 on: July 25, 2020, 11:53:43 am »
Conwy ?
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know.