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©Shaun Butler
Dist:0.2km<br/>This area is close to the present southern limit for sighting red kites. They are often mobbed and driven away by smaller birds. In this case the kite was seen off by a crow (I think) which pursued it until it moved away.
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©Anthony Parkes
Dist:0.3km<br/>Inn immediately to the south of Pont Nyfer/Nevern Bridge from which the photograph has been taken. Steps lead down to the water. NB Rooks already nesting, mid-December.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Odd name for this place at a crossroads on the A487: quite possibly thare was an inn here once. The low pink building (a useful cafe in the summertime) appears to have originally been a longhouse-type dwelling. The minor road left leads to Nevern and right to Cilgwyn.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The old bridge, with its massive angular cut-water, across the Afon Nyfer at Nevern / Nanhyfer. The imposing church tower of St Brynach's Church peeps out among the trees. The B4582 runs along the south bank, on higher solid ground, and then makes a right angle turn onto the bridge and across the valley bottom pasture to the higher ground where the village and church stand - out of reach of any flood waters. This is a natural crossing place where the soft alluvial valley bottom is narrowest and higher solid ground comes closest together on both sides of the river.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Arched Bridge over the River Nyfer at Nevern.
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.4km<br/>The building with pointed windows, seen across the field, was originally a chapel built in 1799, then became the board school, in 1876. Now it functions as the village hall. The pipe across the river was supplying slurry to a tractor spreading it malodorously over an adjacent field.
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©Jeff Tomlinson
Dist:0.5km<br/>The road runs between the old and the 'new' churchyard (seen here), the gates of which are dated 1810.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>This is apparently one of only two such steps left in Pembrokeshire (I don't know where the other is.) It is situated just outside the wall of the churchyard with the Caman brook flowing behind it. Once upon a time people would ride to church and leave their horses to graze here for the duration of the service. In the background the land rises to the wooded mound of Castell Nanhyfer, the ancient fortification above the village.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>One cannot fail to be drawn to this very ancient and imposing Celtic Cross at Nevern.
©Sarah Smith
Dist:0.5km<br/>The site is visited by Christian and Pagan pilgrims alike. The Christian story goes that the tree bleeds every year in sympathy with Christ. For the Pagan folk the tree is an embodiment of the Great Mother Goddess in her Virgin aspect. The beautiful tree, still a youngster for its species, has a recessed orifice in its bark which reminds one of female genitalia and it exudes a small amount of dark red thick fluid or resin.
©Cered
Dist:0.5km<br/>Was Nevern the final resting-place of Vortigern? Could this be his stone at the Church of St.Brynach?
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