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Car Leasing Deals Swansea
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Swansea Leasing
Did You Know?Swansea is a city on the south coast of Wales. The National Waterfront Museum, in a renovated warehouse with a slate-and-glass extension, features coal-industry artefacts. Swansea Museum’s collection includes maritime paintings, plus boats in Swansea Marina. The Dylan Thomas Centre commemorates the 20th-century writer with hands-on displays. Swansea was once called Sweins eg or ey, which means Swein's island. The island stood in the mouth of the River Tawe. Who Swein was is not known for sure but he may have been a Norseman who built a fort on the island about 1000 AD and used it as a base for raiding the Welsh coast. Swansea is the second largest city in Wales and the twenty-fifth largest city in the United Kingdom. During the 19th-century industrial heyday, the city was the key centre of the copper-smelting industry, earning the nickname Copperopolis. Bluepool Corner in Gower is a deep tub into which you can leap from the rock ledges. It sits in the corner of a superb beach with the Three Chimneys rock arches and caves at the far end, said to contain gold coins from a Spanish shipwreck. Swansea City Football Club is a Welsh professional football club based in Wales, that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was founded in 1912 as Swansea Town and joined the Football League in 192 The town of Swansea was founded in the early 12th century when the Normans conquered the area. The Norman lord built a wooden castle on the site of Worcester Place. (It was rebuilt in stone in the early 13th century). A town soon grew up by the castle. From the late 18th century until well into the Victorian era, Swansea was nicknamed ‘Copperopolis’ due to the huge volume of the material manufactured in the city. The population of Swansea grew rapidly during the 19th century. In 1801 it was 6,831 but by 1841 it was over 16,000. by the end of the century it had passed 100,000. Like all 19th century towns it was overcrowded, dirty and unsanitary. There were epidemics of cholera in the city in 1832 and 1849.
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