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Coleg Gwent is Wales' largest further education college, based at various locations in the former county of Gwent, South Wales. One of the campuses is at Ebbw Vale, and another is at Usk.
The former Glamorgan cricketer Malcolm Nash (1945 – 2019), who was famous for bowling to Gary Sobers when he hit six sixes in one over, was born in Abergavenny. This famous over happened on 31st August 1968 at the St Helen's Ground, Swansea.
Appropriately enough, as without cricket balls there wouldn't be a test on.
Barham Court in Teston was home to Randall Fitzurse, one of the assassins of Thomas Becket. Another, Hugh de Morville, held the castle at Knaresborough.
Squadron Leader James Harry "Ginger" LaceyDFM*, Second World War RAF fighter pilot, attended school in Knaresborough. Lacey was from Wetherbybut his academic achievements enabled him to attend school in Knaresborough rather than Wetherby.
Otterburn Hall was purchased in the early 1920s by members of the Northern Allotment Society, an organisation which was also responsible for the development of (inter alia) the Darras Hall estate at Ponteland.