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  • I found a pretty little town in Wales that goes by the name of Ruthin.

    BBC News - Home 2012

  • Lady Ruthin is Susan, daughter and heiress of Charles Longueville Lord Grey de Ruthin.

    Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

  • The Conwy Valley is not alone in being ignored, and areas like the Llyn Peninsula, South Gwynedd, as well as market towns such as Ruthin and Denbigh, have been largely forgotten by Cardiff Bay.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

  • Ruthin Bookshop3 Upper Clwyd Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1HY, 01824703840Maybe it's the fact that this 500-year-old building used to be an inn, but there's something unusually lively and warm about this small bookshop, with its dark beams and low ceilings.

    Independent bookshops in Wales 2011

  • Through Ruthin, under the outcrop of red sandstone crowned with its squat timber fortress, and into the vale proper, broad, beautiful, and the fresh green of young foliage everywhere.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Indeed about 95% of labour on the site came from North Wales - mainly from Bala, Corwen and Ruthin.

    The new Alwen crossing 2008

  • Indeed about 95% of labour on the site came from North Wales - mainly from Bala, Corwen and Ruthin.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • He would surely have failed and his young face would have gone down in the mud; but the leader on our right, Lord Grey of Ruthin, turned traitor in that moment, and pulled the York forces up over the barricade and turned on his own house in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, which pushed our men back toward the River Nene, where many drowned, and let Warwick and Fauconberg come on.

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

  • The name of the wicked king, Benlli, occurs in the name of Foel Fenlli hill fort between Mold and Ruthin, which suggests that the territory of early medieval Powys included some of north-east Wales.

    Powys: the early medieval kingdom Carla 2009

  • The name of the wicked king, Benlli, occurs in the name of Foel Fenlli hill fort between Mold and Ruthin, which suggests that the territory of early medieval Powys included some of north-east Wales.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Carla 2009

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