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Dist:0.4km<br/>Substantial farm on high land southwest of Bridell. Frost pockets on either side of the track but the house catches the sunshine.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Red is traditional for the doors of farm buildings in Wales and these have been painted in an especially eye-catching fashion.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>A very old dead beech trunk hosted a large number of these. This one, slightly resembling a woolly bobble-hat, shows the annual growth layers very clearly.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>In the winter sunshine, looking north from Maesyfelin towards the Teifi valley.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The milk churns are no longer collected from the top of the farm lane but they have been painted to form an attractive feature.
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Dist:1.0km west<br/>The valley of Cwm Ffrwd runs north/south but is too deep and wooded to benefit from the low rays of midwinter afternoon sunshine following a frosty night.
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Dist:1.1km west<br/>Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) growing in profusion in the damp ground beside Afon Piliau. There were numerous orange-tip butterflies fluttering around, this being the plant on which they will lay their eggs. Nowadays land drainage has meant a loss of habitat for the plant and the butterfly whose caterpillars feed upon it.
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Dist:1.2km west<br/>All the windows here were small. This one, beside the simne fawr, faces west and may have let in a ray of evening light - but not much for the farm lies in a deep valley hence its name, Cwm.
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Dist:1.2km west<br/>This appears to have been an outbuilding. It is constructed out of long thin slate blocks, without any apparent mortar. This must have been a laborious style of building and is in sharp contrast to the large blocks of Preseli bluestone that were used further to the south of here.
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Dist:1.2km west<br/>The path skirts this old dwelling half hidden in undergrowth. It was a farm named Cwm, said to have been inhabited within recent memory - if so it must already have fallen into disrepair since there is very little left of it now.
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Dist:1.2km west<br/>This is a typical traditional 'big chimney'. Originally it would have had just an open fire with hooks to hang cooking pots over it, then a grate and oven were added and possibly after that a brick and iron compartment housing a hot water tank. The old oak beam has weathered better than everything else. I get the feeling that the last inhabitant of this place was old and set in their ways.
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Dist:1.2km west<br/>Huge chimney tapers towards two pots at the top. There's room in here for smoking a couple of hams or a salmon poached from the Teifi!
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Dist:1.2km west<br/>One of very few signs of human occupation, apart from the derelict structure itself, remaining at Cwm. If anyone knows anything about this place I would be interested to hear.
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