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Dist:0.4km<br/>This part of Kilvrough Manor Woods in May are strongly scented with wild garlic - it's like entering the kitchen of an upmarket Italian restaurant, except that the air is cool, as if its air conditioned.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>Footbridge in Illston cwm.
©John Duckfield
Dist:0.6km<br/>From A4118, with The Gower Inn to the right.
©David Luther Thomas
Dist:0.6km<br/>On the A4118. Footpath to the left (by the trees and the gap in the wall). The road also bridges the stream, which later becomes Pennard Pill, here.
©Jennifer Luther Thomas
Dist:0.7km<br/>Bridge over stream.
©John Duckfield
Dist:0.7km<br/>View from above Illston to Carey's wood.
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©Jeff Tomlinson
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©Jennifer Luther Thomas
Dist:0.9km<br/>The tower in this view is partially concealed by a huge yew tree which is said to be as old as the church.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.9km<br/>There is a handwritten sign beside the kiln indicating that it is of 19th century origin.
©Mick Lobb
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Dist:0.9km<br/>These doors, always in the shady north wall of a church, would be opened at baptisms for the exorcised devil to escape! They were usually blocked up in less superstitious, and more draught-conscious, times.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.9km<br/>Hunkered down in Ilston cwm and reached across a narrow footbridge this chunky little church is essentially a Victorian reconstruction of the original mediaeval version. Apart from its delightful setting the church has an unexpected claim to fame in that it acted as the meeting place for the earliest Baptist congregation, under the leadership of one John Miles/Myles a parliamentarian who took over the living from the royalist incumbent in 1649. "From 1649 until 1660 the Ilston Baptists met in the parish church St Illtyd, of which Miles was rector or minister, though they always referred to the place as their ‘Meeting House’, not their ‘church’ or ‘chapel’. Baptist services and meetings were open only to members. Indeed, Miles was insistent that non-baptised sympathisers should not be allowed to attend. But Miles would also have held more general services for all the parishioners of Ilston, the majority of whom remained non-Baptists. The church had been built by the local de Breos family in the thirteenth century, probably on the site of an earlier Christian cell. It was drastically ‘restored’ inside and out in the mid nineteenth century, and many of the features familiar to Miles and his Baptists have been destroyed or altered beyond recognition." At the Restoration Miles was ejected, the Baptist movement was forced underground and in 1663 he emigrated to America along with many more of his co-religionists, and died there in 1684. The full story, from which the above quotation is abstracted, can be read here http://www.olivercromwell.org/ilston.htm
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Detailed angel on headstone at St Illtyd's church.
©John Duckfield

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