More lost farms above Cardiff

I had another go at the hollow lanes which form part of the pilgrimage route from Llandaff to Penrhys. The waymarked path goes up Church Road to Pentyrch and swings round to cross Heol Pantygored and rejoin the road near the entrance to the quarry. The original hollow way, though, goes straight on past Craig y Parc. On the way up, you pass two more of the little ruined farmsteads that dot the hills above Cardiff. The lane is now called Tawel-fan, and indeed it is a quiet place, but on the tithe map the farms have different names. This one

is Gockatt Isha (Cockid Isaf on the 2^nd edition OS, c 1900). In c 1840 it was a smallholding of just over 7 a., held of the Bute estate by a John David.

This one

a little further up the lane, is also called Gockatt Isha on the tithe map but is described in the apportionment as a house and garden, held of the Bute estate by Miles Evan. On the 2^nd edition OS map it is called Cockid Ganol.

Gockid Ucha, at the top of the lane, seems to have completely disappeared. It was part of the Dynevor estate, an even smaller holding of just over 3a., held by William Evans.

And this is what I call a hollow lane.