Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber.

 Tŷ Newydd burial chamber although ruined, is still a good example of a megalithic dolmen. Set on a natural outcrop it would originally have been covered with a mound or cairn now marked out by the small bollards that surround it.Visit Date May 2023Click on image for a larger version.Ty-Newydd has a massive cracked capstone, about 4.0m by 1.8m and up to 1.2m thick, that rests on three...

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Cenarth Falls

 Cenarth is a small village on the border of Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. The focus of the village is Cenarth Falls, a series of small waterfalls and pools on the river Teifi known as The Salmon Leaps.Visit Date September 2023The waterfalls are one of the first real barriers to salmon and seatrout on their way up the Teifi from the sea to spawn.There has been a mill...

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Faces in the Woods II

This is the second installment of  "Faces in the woods".New sculptures have been added in a different part of the woods.No history or legend behind this post only this to say. A walk through my local woods revealed that someone had taken the time to carve many faces on what looks like drift wood and then fixed them on the trees along the pathway.I don't know who did this or the...

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Burry Port Lighthouse

Burry Port is a small coastal town in the South of Wales.The harbour was built in the early 1830s and was the main port for exporting coal from the surrounding areas.The Harbour initially was named the Pembrey New Harbour and was a larger upgrade to the smaller harbour just along the coast.The harbour's name was changed by an act of parliament in 1835 to Burry Port Harbour and thus gave...

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Grove Colliery

In 1849, after the establishing iron furnaces at Kilgetty the Pembrokeshire Iron and Coal Company considered the possiblity of sinking a new pit at Grove to mine the Kilgetty anthracite vein and provide anthracite to the ironworks.Visit Date October 2023The Pithead and ShaftThe pit would have to be sunk to a depth of 182 metres to reach the vein.The final decision was taken...

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Kilgetty Ironworks

 Also known as Stepaside Ironworks, Saundersfoot, PembrokeshireLike many ironworks in Wales, the works at Kilgetty did not provide much iron during its intermittent operational years.Visit Date October 2023Iconic image of Kilgetty IronworksFollowing the successful introduction of anthracite smelting at Ynyscedwyn in 1836, Kilgetty Ironworks were established in 1848-49 by Charles Ranken...

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