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Tre-boeth – the ‘warm town’?

August 25, 2020

This is another little farmstead that I must have walked past at least a dozen...

Laleston to Parc Slip

November 28, 2013

Well, we always knew this would be the tricky bit of the route. We actually...

Early Medieval Inscribed Stones

June 30, 2013

I have the final volume of Nancy Edwards’ Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones to...

Grosmont: borough and village street

March 4, 2015

We had some epic days out with the Gwent County History Association. In 2004 a...

Coedcae and the Cwm

August 4, 2020

Having found the ruins of Coedcae Garw thanks to @mikekohnstamm (https://www.heritagetortoise.co.uk/2020/07/coedcae-garw/) I’ve reverse engineered the...

Heritagising dissent

July 16, 2013

Michael Heseltine – flak jacket wearer, Tory leadership challenger, hero of the Westland Helicopter affair...