Betws-y-Coed (meaning 'prayer-house in the woods') is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, right on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest.

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Blaenau Ffestiniog

Blaenau Ffestiniog is a town in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Charlestown, Cornwall

Charlestown (Porth Meur, meaning great cove) is a village and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of St Austell Bay.

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Charlotte Long

The Hon. Charlotte Helen Long (9 October 1965 – 6 October 1984) was an English aristocrat and child actress, the youngest daughter of the 4th Viscount Long.

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Christopher Barry

Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director.

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Christopher Penfold

Christopher Penfold is an English scriptwriter and editor.

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Cindy Shelley

Cynthia Shelley (born 23 March 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English actress, known for her roles in two BBC television dramas of the 1980s: Alice Courtenay in Tenko and Abby Urquhart in Howards' Way.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Dinorwig Power Station

The Dinorwig Power Station, known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Ffynnon Llugwy

Ffynnon Llugwy is a lake in the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales.

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Friday Street

Friday Street is a hamlet on the gentle lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England.

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Frogmore

Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.

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Gloucester and Sharpness Canal

The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (also known as the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal) is a ship canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness, completed in 1827.

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Gloucester Docks

Gloucester Docks is a historic area of the city of Gloucester.

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Gregor Jordan

Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director, writer and actor.

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Grimentz

Grimentz is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in the north-west of Wales.

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Haughmond Abbey

Haughmond Abbey is a ruined, medieval, Augustinian monastery a few miles from Shrewsbury, England.

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Headley Water Mill

Headley Water Mill is a water mill used for the milling of flour and situated near the village of Headley on the outskirts of the village of Lindford in the east of the English county of Hampshire.

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John Christopher

Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012) was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods.

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John Woodvine

John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.

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Jonathan Powell (producer)

Jonathan Leslie Powell (born 25 April 1947 in Sittingbourne, Kent) is an English former television producer and executive.

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Keith Topping

Keith Andrew Topping (born 26 October 1963 in Walker, Tyneside) is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

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Ken Freeman (composer)

Ken Freeman (born 1946) is a British composer and session musician, primarily playing piano and synthesisers.

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Lake Thun

Lake Thun (Thunersee) is an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named after the city of Thun, on its northern shore.

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Llyn Cowlyd

Llyn Cowlyd is the deepest lake in northern Wales.

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Lydney

Lydney is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Martin Bower

Martin Bower (born 1952) is a model maker and designer of special effects miniatures for both film and television.

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Martin Day (writer)

Martin Day (born 1968 in Yeovil) is a screenwriter and novelist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who, and many episodes of the soaps Fair City, Doctors and Family Affairs.

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Michael Grade

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman.

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Oberhofen am Thunersee

Oberhofen am Thunersee is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Oberhofen Castle

Oberhofen Castle is a castle in the municipality of Oberhofen of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Pamela Salem

Pamela Fortunee Salem (22 January 1944 – 21 February 2024) was a British film and television actress.

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Paul Cornell

Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield.

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Pensford

Pensford is the largest village in the civil parish of Publow in Somerset, England.

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Portmeirion

Portmeirion is a folly*.

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Purton Hulks

The Purton Hulks or Purton Ships' Graveyard is a number of abandoned boats and ships, deliberately beached beside the River Severn near Purton in Gloucestershire, England, to reinforce the river banks.

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Purton, Berkeley

Purton is a village on the east bank of the River Severn, 3 miles north of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, England.

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Red Shift Ltd

Red Shift was a video game publisher active between 1983 and 1985.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.

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River Wye

The River Wye (Afon Gwy) is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary.

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Saint-Jean, Switzerland

Saint-Jean is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.

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Saltwood Castle

Saltwood Castle is a castle in Saltwood village, one mile (2 km) north of Hythe, Kent, England.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (historically SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name. and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods_(TV_series)

Also known as Cognosc, The Tripods (film).

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See also

1980s British science fiction television series

BBC science fiction television shows

References