I Never Knew That About Wales

Take a breathtaking journey around Wales to uncover the tales buried deep in the country's history. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, "I Never Knew That About Wales" visits the thirteen traditional Welsh counties and discovers the hidden treasures that they each hold.

Visit the places where history and legends happened; where people, ideas and inventions were inspired; where famous figures lived and loved and laboured. A glittering array of writers and artists, thinkers and inventors, heroes and villains have dreamed and toiled in this small country. This book seeks out their monuments their memories and their secrets. You'll be able to visit Britain's smallest city, explore Britain's greatest collection of castles, browse through the second hand book capital of the world, wander through Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Take a trip to Fishguard, where the last invasion of Britain took place in 1797. Marvel at the world's first iron suspension bridge and the longest bridged aqueduct in Britain. This irresistible compendium of facts and stories will give you a captivating insight into the people, ideas and events that have shaped the individual identity of every place you visit, and will have you exclaiming again and again: ' I never knew that!'

I Never Knew That...

* The world's first steam railway journey began in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan in 1804
* Lawn tennis was invented in the gardens of Nantclwyd House in Denbighshire in 1873
* The largest glasshouse in the world can be found in Carmarthenshire
* The great royal dynasty of the Tudors originated from the tiny settlement of Penmynydd on Anglesey