Museums, archives and heritage in Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire, a maritime county of S. Wales, and the largest of all the Welsh counties; is bounded N. by Cardiganshire, E. by Brecknockshire and Glamorgan, S. by the Bristol Channel, and W. by Pembrokeshire; greatest length, NE. and SW., 50 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 42 miles; the coast, which is marshy, measures about … Read more

Museums, archives and heritage in Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire, or Beds, a midland county of England, bounded by the counties of Northampton, Cambridge, Herts, and Bucks. Greatest length, N. and S., 30 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 20 miles; area, 29,983 acres; population 149,473. The surface is mostly flat, varied in the S. by a spur of the Chiltern Hills, and … Read more

Museums, archives and heritage in Bristol

Bristol, city, municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and county of itself, chiefly in Gloucestershire but partly in Somerset, at the confluence of the rivers Avon and Frome, 6 miles from the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth and 120 miles W. of London by rail, the port being 29 miles from Cardiff, 70 from Swansea. 245 from … Read more