Steve Crook

I've been tidying up the UK location tree for Wales in the IMDb. As I'm a half-Welsh Londoner I understand about all those strange looking place names they have in Wales :)

However, I have a few "orphans" that I can't place correctly. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Location "Beulah, Wales, UK"
Used by - Z for Zachariah (1984) (TV)
Options include:
Beulah, Powys
Beulah, Ceredigion
Beulah, Powys
Beulah, Ceredigion


Location "Deri, Wales, UK"
Used by - "Doctor Who" (1963)
Options include:
Deri, Caerphilly
Deri, Carmarthenshire
Deri, Monmouthshire


Location "Newtown, Wales, UK"
Used by - "Mortimer's Law" (1998)
Options include:
Newtown, Blaenau Gwent
Newtown, Powys


Location "Dolgoth, Wales, UK"
Used by - Unledded (1994) (TV)
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant tour.
"Dolgoth, Wales" is listed on various sites as one of the venues but nobody says where in Wales it is.

Any assistance gratefully received.
Actually, I'm suprised there are so few "orphans"

Steve

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DB7

Dolgoch is near Tal-y-llyn in Powys (I think, haven't checked on a map).

Since recording at Bron-Yr-Aur, near Machynlleth during the 70s Led Zep have done a fair bit of filming thereabouts. I think Plant or maybe Page owns a farm in the area.

A Zep site will have the lowdown as fans do frequent pilgrimages to Wales.

Never heard of those tv shows violent

Steve Crook

Oops, I should have spotted that it was a mis-spelling, the "ch" ending is much more common in Welsh place-names.

It's actually in Gwynedd although there's another one in Sir Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) but given your other clues I'll assume it's the one up near Tal-y-llyn.

Thanks

Steve

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DB7

Talyliyn to the English. :)

I live on the border (near Wrexham... or Wrecsam) and once you crossover everywhere has two names, and there's so much writing on the road you'd think a graffiti artist has been at work.

Steve Crook

When I was tidying up the names of locations in the IMDb I found some Welsh names (like Llanyblodwel) that were actually in Shropshire :)

That border always was a bit vague.

Once you get deep into the countryside in Wales there aren't that many roadsigns and those that are there are often only in Welsh. When you're driving down a country lane and you see a sign warning about a bend you know that they'd only bother to put a notice that far from anywhere if it's a big, sharp bend. So you'd better slow down.

Diolch yn fawr

Steve

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To quote Gen Melchett in Blackadder: "It's a barren, featureless desert out there....".

No wonder they filmed Blott on the Landscape in Salop.

btw, pretty sure Mortimer's Law was shot in Powys. link here

A nice looked location-related site came to my attention today: http://www.wheredidtheyfilmthat.co.uk/

Steve Crook

More importantly (to me), they filmed Gone to Earth (1950) there as well.

I've done a few visits to the area with one of our members who lives nearby. We've walked and climbed those hills and shown the film in the village where it was filmed.

That one convinces me, thanks.

Could be useful, but needs a LOT more data.

Steve

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filmfan#1

under milk wood with liz taylor, richard burton and peter o'toole was filmed in dylan thomas' home, in laugharne, west wales. the boat house there is beautiful.

Steve Crook

I thought it was mainly filmed in Fishguard.
I wasn't overly impressed by the boathouse when I've been there but Laugharne is a nice enough fishing village.

As for the film - terrible. Stick to the original radio version. It was subtitled "A play for voices" and is always better if you let your imagination (& the words) draw the pictures rather than have them fixed by someone else.

Although the recent radio version was quite good as well. With a new cast except for Burton who they extracted from the original.

Steve

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4737carlin

i think the Welsh Mountain Zoo at Conway was used in Our Day Out (1979) (TV)

arty-dave

Pontins in Prestatyn, North Wales was used as the location for Holiday On The Buses

penfold

Remember it well.....it's set in a pretty remote valley (cwm if you like) with nobbut a farmhouse (stone, pretty old) dry-stone walling and a stream....which location is more likely bearing this in mind??

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

smudge

If it helps, DOCTOR WHO ON LOCATION lists the Deri used in THE GREEN DEATH as in Glamorgan...

Don't ask me - I have Welsh relatives too, but I usually try to avoid them !

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Steve Crook

Cwms are glacial valleys so they're more usually to be found in North Wales. But certainly up in the hills like Beulah in Powys rather than Beulah, Ceredigion which is on the coastal plain.

Thanks

Steve

Steve Crook

That'd be the one now regarded as being in Caerphilly then. That's the old county of Glamorgan. Caerphilly is really just one of the (fairly) recent municipal authorities that they now use to designate the areas around big towns.

Thanks

Steve

Edit: Someone beat me to it. It is now recorded in the IMDb as Deri, Caerphilly.