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This is a vibrant and diverse community as the pages devoted to farms, transport, industry, religion and leisure reveal. Nor are the people who helped create, sustain and re-invent the community overlooked. Here one will find not only the Gilbertsons, Lloyds and Gwyns but also those who in many respects left no visible epitaph but formed the bedrock of soceity. 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