Ffos-y-fran houses, Bassaleg
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Ffos-y-fran houses, Bassaleg
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 5 Mar 2011
Ffos-y-fran is a cul-de-sac of 57 houses connecting with Caerphilly Road, Bassaleg. Ffos-y-fran is Welsh for Crow's Ditch. Ffos is one of a small number of words in Welsh derived from Latin, in this case, fossa, a ditch. Fran is a mutated form of bran, a crow. In Welsh, the correct spellings are brân and frân. The 'hat' (circumflex accent) over the a distinguishes brân (crow) from bran (bran).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.576192
Longitude
-3.057701