The Bears Head, Penarth
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The Bears Head, Penarth
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 9 Dec 2012
The Wetherspoon pub at 37-39 Windsor Road takes its name from a literal translation of Penarth. In Welsh, arth is bear and pen is head. Although that used to be the accepted derivation of the town's name, some modern scholars have suggested that the name is a shortened form of Pen-y-garth, where garth means cliff, hence head of the cliff or cliff top(s).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.439382
Longitude
-3.175681