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This is Caerau Gaer on the map, and is taken from the bridleway that climbs up from the church
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>A house on the outskirts of Llanddewi Velfrey.
©Jake Watson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Telephone box on the A40 at Llanddewi Velfrey.
©Martyn Harries
Dist:0.5km<br/>Not the easiest place to reach, down this lane/track. I never made it due to doubts that I was going the right way. Only when map checking on return home did I realise that if I'd gone just a bit further I would have been there! Very rural and some distance from today's village on the A40.
©Deborah Tilley
Dist:0.5km<br/>Having taken the wrong path I drove through manicured grounds that could have passed for being ecclesiastical and rounded the bend to see these ruins, Plas Crwd, once a manor house. The lane continued beyond to open out into a spectacular courtyard where there were horses, cats and dogs, and habitated. On return, I had to find out a bit more about this lovely place. The George family lived there in the C19th and Fanny Margaret George married Thomas Reece Thomas of Llanboidy c1796-1883. He was connected to the Willy family of Lampeter Velfrey and a surgeon of Haverfordwest. Their son was Tudor Vaughan Howell Thomas 1852-1906. Link www.historicwales.gov.uk for info on the grounds. The 1907 OS map for Carmarthenshire XXXVi Sheet 16 lists an arboretum; woodland; shrubbery; lodge; gatehouse; hawhaw; house; conservatory; walled garden; carriage drive and parkland. I don't know when Plas Crwd fell into ruin.
©Deborah Tilley
Dist:0.6km<br/>Fuel, shop and post office by the A40.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking out over verdant pasture. There are a number of Iron Age hillforts in the vicinity.
©Deborah Tilley
Dist:0.6km<br/>on the A40
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.6km<br/>By the A40.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.7km<br/>Towards the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.7km<br/>The re-routed footpath goes down some steps on the left of picture and onto the track. The map marked track is on the other side of the black barn and leads into the main farm area.
©R Simpson
Dist:0.8km<br/>
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:1.0km<br/>Baptist chapel founded 1720. A square building situated on a prominence very close to, but only just visible from, the A40 trunk road. It takes its name from a local well called ‘Ffynnon well na buwch’ which translates as ‘a well which is better than a cow’ because it produced the purest water and supposedly never dried up. NB In Welsh 'Ffynnon' means well, 'well' means better.
©ceridwen
Dist:1.0km<br/>The footpath has been re-routed around to the south of the farm complex, it is well signposted and leads onto the next farm to the East (Panteg).
©R Simpson
Dist:1.0km<br/>Looking South to Lampeter Vale, the finger of wood is a good identifying feature.
©R Simpson

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