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Dist:0.3km<br/>
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The rolling hills.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Congregationalist.
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Dist:1.3km southwest<br/>
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Dist:1.4km south<br/>
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.5km west<br/>
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.5km northeast<br/>A grand house occupying a commanding position on the Carmarthenshire bank of the Teifi. It is a listed building, mostly C19 but with elements dating from C17. It possessed a large estate of which most of the buildings, along with the house itself, are now let for holiday accommodation. This was an area in which the Rebecca rioters were active in opposing the tolls that penalized road users, during the 1840s. The mansion was at the time the home of one Captain Lloyd, who, wrote G.G.Treherne (1837-1923) in 'A Victorian Childhood in Wales' "made himself very unpopular with the Rebeccas, through administering stern justice to them, with the result that a bilingual proclamation was posted on the turnpike gates near Dolhaidd setting out Capt. Lloyd's sins and giving notice that unless he recanted (how I know not) before a certain day his home would be burnt. As a matter of fact parts of his premises were burnt, and his old coachman frightened out of his wits." The name Dolhaidd means barley field.
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Dist:1.6km west<br/>
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.6km southeast<br/>Board giving the history of Cwmhiraeth, once a busy industrial village with woollen mills and weaving shops.
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Dist:1.6km north<br/>The river runs perilously close to the churchyard and the water is high following a period of wet weather. Beyond, across the field, runs the route of the former (planned) Carmarthen to Cardigan railway which reached Newcastle Emlyn in 1895 and never got any further.
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Dist:1.6km north<br/>The church stands only a few yards from the River Teifi, hence the salmon leaping on the weather-vane. The church was rebuilt in 1890 but has ancient roots, being dedicated to C6 Saint Tyfriog/Tyfrydog, and also said to be founded by Saint Breoc. Between the two vertical gravestones within the iron railings can be seen part of the boxtomb of Thomas Heslop, victim of the last duel to be fought in Wales on September 10th 1814. The story is he got into a dispute in a pub with some local gents following a partridge shoot, tempers became inflamed and he challenged a local solicitor, John Beynon. But when, two days later, it was pistols at dawn in nearby Dan-warin fields, the victim was Heslop, shot, apparently treacherously, in the back by Beynon who was charged with manslaughter and subsequently fled to America. 'Poor Heslop' was buried in this quiet churchyard, far from his native West Indies. See http://www.newcastleemlyn.info/page14.html However recent research and examination of the fatal bullet (which was preserved in the attending doctor's family) reveals that Heslop was shot fair and square and Beynon deserves to be exonerated! See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/5384730.stm
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Dist:1.6km southeast<br/>Pasture land for grazing cattle, sheep and horses.
©Dawn Faith Worrall
Dist:1.6km north<br/>
©Marion Phillips
Dist:1.6km north<br/>
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.7km north<br/>Was this the old church school?
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