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Romilly, Vale of Glamorgan

area in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ7363217 ↗
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Romilly is a western district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, United Kingdom.

The area has an attractive public park which includes an extensive field and tennis court facilities. It is located around the corner from Cold Knap. An educational centre was built on Romilly Road in 1957. The park is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

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“Romilly, Vale of Glamorgan” enters the record as area in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Romilly, Vale and Glamorgan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Romilly, Vale of Glamorgan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.