Wales

The capital and largest city of Wales is Cardiff.

References & Appearances

• The Doctor and Jo Grant visited a mining area in Wales in the 1970s. (DW: The Green Death)
• In the 1950s a Navarino group together with The Doctor and Melanie Bush crash at a holiday camp in Wales. (DW: Delta and the Bannermen)
• The Doctor and Rose Tyler encounter both Charles Dickens and a time rift in 1879 on Christmas Day in Cardiff. (DW: The Unquiet Dead)
• The TARDIS lands in Cardiff in September 2006 to use the wound of the time rift to refuel. After the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack meet up with Mickey, the group discover that Margaret Blaine survived the destruction of 10 Downing Street and is now Lord Mayor of Cardiff. After the group catch her outside City Hall, Margaret admits to the Doctor that she plans to demolish Cardiff Castle and build the Blaidd Drwg (English: Bad Wolf) nuclear power station. Using a combination of a nuclear explosion and the time rift, she would use a tribophysical waveform macrokinetic extrapolator as a pan-dimensional surfboard to escape the solar system after Earth's destruction. (DW: Boom Town)
• The Doctor visits Cardiff briefly to refuel his TARDIS. (DW: 'Utopia)
• Torchwood 3 is located in Cardiff, Wales. (TW: Everything Changes et al. )
• Gwen Williams' familty are from Swansea
• Gwen Cooper visits the University of Wales, Aberystwyth as part of her investigation into the death of Eugene Jones. (TW:Random Shoes)

Behind the Scenes

• The revived series is filmed in Wales.
• The Abominable Snowmen and The Five Doctors were filmed in North Wales.
• The Masque of Mandragora was filmed in Portmeirion, in North Wales.