Sheep of the Garw

From earliest times sheep have been a prominent feature of the landscape of the Garw Valley. The Cistercians who were settled in the abbey of Margam under the Normans in the 12th century held vast estates, or granges, in the uplands around Llangeinor, and along with the monks at Tintern, were the richest wool producers in South Wales….

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Cynefin Project

Discover what your farm’s fieldnames were in the 1840s on this website. We can see Betws and Llangeinor have entries and others will follow with our help, see below). Cynefin : Mapping Wales’ sense of Place Help us transcribe all the tithe maps of Wales – including their indexes. This crowdsourcing website also has superb georeferencing…

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