Rugby team teamname Rhigos RFC fullname Rhigos Rugby Football Club nickname location Rhigos , Wales countryflag Wales founded 1930 ground capacity president Twmos Lewis coach Merlin Huish league WRU Division Five South Central season 2009 10 position 7th ref http www.wru.co.uk 2108.php WRU official site ref url www.rhigosrugby.co.uk Rhigos Rugby Football Club is a Rugby union in Wales Welsh rugby union club based in Rhigos , Aberdare , South Wales . History Rhigos RFC were formed by the local cricket team that decided they needed a winter sport to allow them to continue playing when the cricket season ended. A vote was made between members on whether to choose rugby or football soccer football , and rugby won by a single vote and the club was created. During the 1937 38 season the club won the Pontypridd and District cup beating Rhydyfelin RFC 3 0. Originally playing on the Gwrangon Field, they moved temporarily to Mount Road, before changing grounds again to Newth s Field. Club honours 1937 38 Pontypridd and District Cup champions Notable past players flagicon WAL Dai Edwards flagicon WAL Dai Morris Notes reflist Rugby Wales links Category Sports clubs established in 1930 Category Welsh rugby union teams wales rugbyunion team stub ... more details
coord 51.757 3.568 display title region GB scale 10000 Sychryd or Afon Sychryd Starts just below Graig y Llyn and is know localy as the Nant Gwrangon it flows past the village of Rhigos and through Cwm Wyrfa on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales . under the A645 road A465 Heads of the Valleys Road and turns northwest to join the Afon Mellte at Pontneddfechan . ref Ordnance Survey Explorer map OL12 Brecon Beacons National Park western area ref Its lower section is cut into a spectacular gorge beneath Craig y Ddinas or Dinas Rock , site of an Iron Age hillfort and of the once famous Dinas Silica Mine . The gorge is well used by gorge scramblers though there has been concern that their activities can cause damage to the rare bryophytes and mosses that colonise the rocks in this shaded valley and for which it has been designated as a special area of conservation . There are several waterfalls of note on the river including those at Pwll y Crochan near the A645 and Sgydau Sychryd beneath Craig y Ddinas. The former is hardly accessible to the public but the latter is easily seen from the Sychryd All ability Trail which follows a former tramroad up the river from the car park at Craig y Ddinas. It is falls such as these that have resulted in the wider area becoming known as Waterfall Country Wales Waterfall s Country . references Reflist Category Rivers of Wales Category Rhondda Cynon Taf Category Fforest Fawr Category Canyons and gorges of Wales RhonddaCynonTaf geo stub Rhondda Cynon Taf ... more details
to Caligula s aborted invasion of Britain. Sub Roman period According to Nennius , Gwrangon was King ... but Nennius is regarded as an untrustworthy source, and Gwrangon seems to have been transported by the story ... more details
Kent as the bride gift. Gwrangon was king of Ceint in the time of Vortigern according to Nennius ... jointly by a civil governor Gwrangon? and a military governor, according to Roman custom, and that Hengist ... more details
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