Ffordd Ysguborgoch
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Ffordd Ysguborgoch
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 3 Apr 2010
Ysguborgoch (red barn) was the name a farm which stood on the site before these houses were built in the 1930s. A corruption of the name - "Sgybs" sometimes rendered "Sgibs" and even "Skips"- is applied to the whole of the estate and is worn as a badge of honour by the inhabitants. The estate has a long and proud tradition of soldiering, with a great input into the Royal Welsh and the Welsh Guards. To listen to the locals, the British Army is composed in the main of Sgybs, Taffs, Jocks and Paddies, and in that order.. Come to think of it, apart from a few Ruperts, I have not encountered many soldiers who own up to being English. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/caernarfon/pages/ysguborgoch.shtml
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Image Location
Latitude
53.139868
Longitude
-4.265457