Where is Bonvilston? Bonvilston – Tresimwn is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The village is located on the A48 near Cardiff. It is named after Simon de Bonville, a Norman nobleman who lived there in the 12th century. Although its meaning is slightly different in English and Welsh (Bonville’s town – Simon’s […]
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Where is St Nicholas? St. Nicholas – Sain Nicolas is a small village near Wenvoe in the Vale of Glamorgan. How the village got its name is unclear, but it may well be after Saint Nicholas, the saint who was born in a former Greek area of southern Turkey. The same Saint Nicholas was known
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Where is Wenvoe? Wenvoe – Gwenfô is a village and community between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales and it began life centuries ago, as a farming community. In the last 100 years Wenvoe has doubled in size and with even more recent housing developments is slowly merging with the outer belt
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Where is Aberthaw? Aberthaw – Aberddawan is made up of the villages of East Aberthaw and West Aberthaw. It is about 5 miles from Barry along the Glamorgan Heritage Coastline. Aberthaw get its name from the Welsh word ‘Aber’, meaning estuary or river mouth, of the river Thaw. The existence of a safe, natural harbour
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Where is Caerleon? Caerleon is a small town, northeast of the city of Newport (Wales). It is a place I know well, I studied Archaeology there for 3 years and what a wonderful place to choose. Sadly, the university campus has now gone but the many of the historic points of interest still remain. There is
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Where is Llanaelhaearn? 13 miles north of the seaside town of Pwllheli on the Llyn Peninsula (north Wales) is a small village called Llanaelhaearn . It’s a place where I spent a lot of time whilst growing up, running around the fields at the back of my ‘Nain and Taid’s Tanllan’ house. They had a
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History of Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is as a typical Welsh Valley mining town and is situated on the A470 between Cardiff and Brecon. There is evidence for prehistoric settlement and land use (mainly to the north of the current town), a Roman fort at Penydarren and a later 13th century castle up
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Abergavenny History Abergavenny (Y Fenni) is a place close to my heart, it was an area I studied many moons ago as a student. I later had the privilege of living just up on the hills in a small village called Llanelly Hill where I was blessed with a fantastic view of the Sugarloaf from
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History of Lower Machen Lower Machen (Machen Isaf) is a small hamlet between Newport and Caerphilly, in the county of Gwent. A place often overlooked by those driving along the A468 to and from their destination. This small hamlet is a designated conservation area (1976). The heritage listings are mostly linked to the bigger story
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