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Pontypool – not quite what you expect of a Valleys town

October 5, 2013

Excellent MA field trip to Pontypool, led by Steve. For the full description, go to...

The Story of the Fox Inn, Juniper

July 24, 2022

(photo (c) Snidge, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Juniper_Hill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_344120.jpg) Here are two inventories of the contents of a little...

Cefncarnau-fawr – then and now

June 1, 2020

I’ve been trying to tie up the plan in the Royal Commission on Ancient and...

Lost farmsteads: update

May 4, 2020

My old student Dave Standing (tweets as @AncientTorfaen ) suggested that the mortar in the...

Deserted farmsteads (again)

May 13, 2020

So is that farm just off the Heol Hir Ty Drav (as on the tithe...

The Excellent Mystery

August 15, 2016

According to the old Prayer Book, marriage is ‘an honourable estate, instituted of God …...