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Porth is a village and a community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying in the Rhondda Valley and is regarded as the gateway to the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach valleys because both valleys meet at Porth. The Welsh word "porth" means "gate" when translated into English. Porth is a predominantly English-speaking community.
Neighbouring villages include Trealaw, Trebanog, Trehafod and Ynyshir.
Porth is the name of several places in Cornwall and Wales. There is also a crater on Mars named Porth, see Porth (crater). Porth was also the surname of tax protestor Arthur Porth.
Porth means either door/gate or port/harbour/ferry.
Porth is a crater on the planet Mars. It is named after the town of Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taff, south Wales, United Kingdom. It is located at 21.4°N, 255.9°W and has a diameter of 9.3 km.
Usage examples of "porth".
Third or fourth or fifth hand in the other places: but round about Porth and Merthyr Tegveth I have spoken with people who have seen the tracks of the terror with their own eyes.
Look at that airship of ours that came over Porth yesterday: ten years ago that would have been an inconceivable sight.
I suppose, at about this time when the people were puzzling their heads as to the secret methods used by the Germans or their agents to accomplish their crimes that a very singular circumstance became known to a few of the Porth people.
Now, getting into the middle fifties, he had settled at Porth for the sake, as he said, of the Gulf Stream and the fuchsia hedges, and pottered over his books and his theories and the local gossip.
He ate a capital dinner at the end of his first day at Porth and took rosy views.
This walk led along the cliffs towards Meiros, and then one could turn inland and return to Porth by deep winding lanes that went over the Alit.
Two or three miles from Porth there is a great marsh made by the Afon River before it falls into the sea, and here Merritt had been accustomed to botanize mildly.
I have heard many gentlemen staying in Porth say that there is nothing to beat the view from the hill over there, not in the whole of Wales.
A man who had missed the last train from Meiros and had been forced to tramp the ten miles between Meiros and Porth seems to have been the first to hear it.
He could make nothing of it, and feeling frightened, he did not quite know of what, he walked on briskly and was glad to see the lights of Porth station.
I shall enjoy it and walk over to Porth and tell you the queerest, most horrible dream that a man ever had, and ask what I had better take.
But if you are botanizing in the marsh, like that poor fellow who was staying at Porth, and forty or fifty young cattle gradually close round you, and refuse to move when you shout and wave your stick, but get closer and closer instead, and get you into the slime.
He spoke of the affairs of the quarry at Llanfihangel on the aralogy of the people who were found dead at the bottom of the cliffs near Porth, and he was no doubt justified in doing so.
The grown-up people sat in groups on the edge of the dunes and read and gossiped, or took a turn towards Porth, or perhaps tried to catch prawns in the rock-pools at the other end of the sands.
I had met Smith, whom I knew slightly in town, in the street of Porth, just as I was setting out for one of my morning walks.