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Wales Leasing

Did You Know?

Wales has more castles per square mile than any other European country, with Caerphilly being the largest in Wales and the second largest in Europe behind Windsor.

Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales and the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom.

The oldest tree in Wales is the Llangernyw Yew in St Digain’s church yard, Llangernyw, near Conwy.It’s approximately 4,000 years old.

Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of 1,085 meters (3,560 ft) above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands.

Felinfoel Brewery in South Wales, the oldest in Wales, was the first outside the US to sell beer in cans starting in 1931.

The first boundary between England and Wales came in 784AD with the creation of Offa’s Dyke by King Offa of Mercia.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales is the second longest place name in the world meaning: St Mary’s church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave.

Rugby is the national sport of Wales. The first international game took place in 1881 between Wales and England. Throughout 1907 and 1910, the Welsh were undefeated.

Roald Dahl, the world famous children’s author of so many tales including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The BFG, was born in Cardiff in 1916.

Famous people from Wales include Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Tom Jones, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Shirley Bassey, Timothy Dalton and Charlotte Church.

The well at Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys is the most sulphurous in Wales - historian Theophilus Evans (1693 - 1767) once wrote of how the waters had cured his scurvy.

Despite many years of extraction, Wales still has an immense source of many natural materials, and is responsible for many countries’ supplies from coal and slate to copper and steel. At one point, South Wales made up 40% of all coal exported by the UK.