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Dist:0.2km<br/>Cilwendeg is an old gentry estate. The name translates into 'fair white nook' and first appears in the seventeenth century. The core of the present mansion dates from about the 1780s and was renovated and redesigned in the late nineteenth century.
©Gethin Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Cilwendeg Shell House is an ornamental grotto built in the 1820s. It was meticulously restored by the Temple Trust in 2005 as an amenity. It is open to the public on Thursdays (9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.) between the beginning of April and the end of September. The Temple Trust phone number is 020-7482-6171.
©Suzannah Fleming
Dist:0.4km<br/>An ornamental shell grotto from the 1820s. Open to the public on Thursdays (9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) between the beginning of April to the end of September. Restored by The Temple Trust in 2005. Temple Trust phone number: 020-7482-6171.
©Suzannah Fleming
Dist:0.4km<br/>To quote from a leaflet available at [[572018]]: "this is a most remarkable ornamental grotto, and a rare survival in West Wales. It was built in the late 1820s for Morgan Jones the Younger (1787-1840), who inherited the Cilwendeg estate upon the death of his uncle. It is believed the ladies of Cilwendeg Mansion devised the original patterns for the interior decoration. This consists of a profusion of native seashells, minerals and coloured glass fragments arranged in primitive patterns and impressed into lime mortar panels." Details of a dig before its recent restoration: http://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/projects/cilwendegshellhouse.htm
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.9km<br/>To quote from a leaflet available at the chapel: "In 1764 Morgan Jones the Elder, master of the nearby Cilwendeg Estate, was responsible for completely rebuilding the long neglected medieval chapel called Capel Colman at the western perimeter of Cilwendeg Park - a church so remote and forgotten that in 1721 it was singled out as being fit 'only for the solitary habitations of Owles and Jackdaws'. Morgan Jones the Younger again rebuilt the church in 1833-5 to the designs of one of his estate tenants, Daniel Davies of Blaenpwllddu Farm." This was essentially a private chapel for the estate, the local parish church was the [[572000]] less than a mile away. Today St. Michael's is in ruins and this chapel is still in use for regular worship.
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:1.0km<br/>The lodges at one of the entrances to the large Cilwendeg Estate
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Built in the 18th C the inn has traditional slate floors.
©Stuart Logan
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>Iet-wen (right) was the gate-house to the Gelli-deg estate, one of several mansions in the parish of Manordeifi. On the left are a pair of estate cottages.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.3km east<br/>Entrance to the Ffynnonau estate: one of several large mansions in the picturesque parish of Manordeifi.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.5km south<br/>
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.5km southeast<br/>
©John Duckfield
Dist:1.5km northeast<br/>
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.6km southwest<br/>It is very common to see a tiny hut labelled "Gents" beside a rural chapel. It was a convenience for the visiting minister!
©ceridwen
Dist:1.6km east<br/>
©John Duckfield

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