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Closely attached to the town of Cowbridge is the village of Aberthin. Aberthin contains two inns; The Hare and Hounds and The Farmers Arms. Cowbridge once had a railway station, which opened in 1865 and closed in 1951. [12] On the 21 March 1950 a Bristol Freighter (Registration: G-AHJJ) on a test flight took off from Bristol Filton Airport. The ...
Aberthin is a small village, just outside Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, on the north side of a shallow valley, less than a mile northeast of ...
Hare and Hounds may refer to: Paper chase (game), a running race game where a "hare" player leaves a trail of paper for the "hounds" to follow; Hare and Hounds (board game), a strategy board game where three hounds attempt to trap a hare; Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, the cross-country running club of the University of Cambridge
Programme 3 was recorded at The Hare and Hounds in Birmingham, and broadcast on 20 January 1981. Guests were the Maddy Prior band, and Thackray performed "Lah-Di-Dah ...
The Hare & Hounds (occasionally and commonly referred to as the Hare and Hounds) is a public house and music venue on the High Street in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, England. Originally built in 1820 and remodelled to its current form in 1907, [1] the Hare & Hounds is Grade II listed, [2] as it retains many original Art Nouveau internal ...
This term was made popular by the paper chase scene in Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and is still used in modern hashing and in club names such as Thames Hare and Hounds. Shrewsbury continued to use fox hunting terms, as evidenced in Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh (1903). In this case the hare was a couple of boys who were called foxes".
The former pub, the Hare and Hounds, is a Grade II listed building. [2] The modern M4 motorway passes just to the south of the village, and its Membury service area is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west. However the nearest motorway access point (J14) is some 3 miles (4.8 km) to the east, between Shefford Woodlands and Hungerford Newtown.
The gibbet-post now forms a prominent roof beam, over 22 feet in length, in the original tap room of the nearby Hare and Hounds tavern, with the date 1737 carved on it. Beneath, in a glass box, is exhibited a skull said to have been unearthed in 1933 and formerly supposed to be that of Morey.