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Eliseg or Elisedd - so whose pillar was it?
Elisedd ap Gwylog was a 1st Century King of Powys and a descendant of Brochweil Ysgithrog, so named because of his fang like teeth and...
Graham Watkins
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Davies’ Stone
The A4069 is a narrow country road that snakes its way over the Black Mountain from Llangadog to Brynamman. A good surface, hairpin bends...
Graham Watkins
6 min read
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C3P0 seen in haunted Welsh lighthouse.
Talacre Lighthouse. Where the supernatural rule and strange things happen. From early times the River Dee has been a major trade route....
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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A strange house, a Welsh lawyer and an Italian Contessa.
To the north of Merthyr Tydfil, near the railway viaduct at Pontsarn, stands a very peculiar house. The property has been known by a...
Graham Watkins
3 min read
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Deceiving the Devil.
John Renie. The man who tried to trick the Devil. On the 8th October 2005 a tombstone in the churchyard at St. Mary’s Priory Church,...
Graham Watkins
2 min read
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Mail Coach Monument - An intoxicating tale from the Past.
The road that we now call the A40 has for centuries been a main transport route across Wales. In Roman times, it was a military road that...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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Portmeirion
Portmeirion, built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, one of Wales' most popular tourist attractions.
Graham Watkins
3 min read
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Palmerston’s Follies
Milford Haven was described by Admiral Lord Nelson as the “finest port in Christendom,” and for this reason the Royal Navy chose the...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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