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Dist:0.3km<br/>Unusual walled compartment for two graves, inscriptions illegible. The church is roughly circular, walled and raised in front and steeply sloping toward the back.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The church vestry possesses a fine chimney and the building on the right is said to be a C19 bier house (Pevsner Guide.)
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This view of Monington church from the southwest shows the bellcote, with a projecting wall beneath, and the stile next the gate. The church is dedicated to St Andrew.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Monington (Welsh Eglwyswythwr) is a very small parish in North Pembrokeshire. The church still operates.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The Welsh name means 'church of 8 men' apparently the number of freeholders there were when it was originally established. This Victorian rebuilding (R.J.Withers 1860) looks ancient and has a lovely setting among beech trees on the valley side.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a major source of grit and gravel, quarried from a huge glacial moraine left by the icesheet that created the plateau. Lorries are constantly coming and going through the narrow lanes and the sound of the machinery can be heard as a background hum.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>This deep glacial meltwater valley is characterized by its tall beech trees. They are protected here from the wind which, being shallow-rooted, they cannot well withstand.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Flour mill employing the water of the Nant Ceibwr to turn its wheel, up until it ceased operations in 1921. Now a private house.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Tiny hamlet 4 miles west of Cardigan.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Most if not all these were tied cottages belonging to the Hafod Grove estate between here and Moylgrove. The name Rhydyfantwn indicates that there was a ford here before the bridge.
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