The Wenvoe Arms is a village pub in Wenvoe

Wenvoe

Wenvoe is a Welsh village between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Nearby is the Wenvoe Transmitter near Twyn-yr-Odyn and the HTV Wales Television Centre at Culverhouse Cross in the suburbs of Cardiff.-History:...

 (near Cardiff

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 in South Wales

Wales

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, UK

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).

Dating back to the late 18th century, the pub has been a focal point of the village for many years (although it was bought by S A Brain sometime in the mid 1980s, which was viewed at the time as the final step in the corporatization of Wales' small rural communities) - from its days as a tight-knit farming

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 community, through the population explosion in the 1960s (due to both government

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and private property development) to the present day.

Although the village's population number of a few hundred at the beginning of the 20th century has been vastly augmented, the pub maintains a small and close-knit group of regulars, many of whom have been drinking at the Wenvoe Arms for many years.