Glamorganshire

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Glamorganshire was a historic county in south Wales that included industrial towns, rural areas, and much of what is now the modern county of Glamorgan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Glamorganshire canonical 12

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative area
historic county
administrativeCentre Cardiff
borderedBy Breconshire
Bristol Channel
Carmarthenshire
Monmouthshire
capital Cardiff
contained Barry
Bridgend
Cardiff
Gower Peninsula
Merthyr Tydfil
Neath
Pontypridd
Port Talbot
Rhondda
linked to: Rhondda Valley

Swansea
Vale of Glamorgan
agricultural lowlands
coastal towns
industrial valleys
port of Cardiff
linked to: Port of Cardiff

port of Swansea
linked to: Port of Swansea
correspondsTo modern county of Glamorgan
country Wales
hasCoastlineOn Bristol Channel
historicalCountyOf Glamorgan
historicCountySystem historic counties of Wales
historicNameInWelsh Morgannwg
includedRegion South Wales Valleys
coalfield areas of South Wales
knownFor coal mining
heavy industry
industrial towns
iron and steel industries
rural areas
language English
Welsh
locatedIn south Wales
linked to: South Wales
namedAfter Glamorgan
partOf Great Britain
United Kingdom
Wales
region South Wales
status historic

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

South Wales iron industry mainRegion Glamorganshire
Taff Vale Railway region Glamorganshire
William Edwards placeOfBirth Glamorganshire
William Edwards placeOfDeath Glamorganshire
William Edwards workLocation Glamorganshire
Swansea Vale Railway regionServed Glamorganshire
Rhondda (UK Parliament constituency) previousConstituency Glamorganshire