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Dist:0.6km<br/>Congregationalist.
©John Gillibrand
Dist:0.6km<br/>The river runs perilously close to the churchyard and the water is high following a period of wet weather. Beyond, across the field, runs the route of the former (planned) Carmarthen to Cardigan railway which reached Newcastle Emlyn in 1895 and never got any further.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.6km<br/>The church stands only a few yards from the River Teifi, hence the salmon leaping on the weather-vane. The church was rebuilt in 1890 but has ancient roots, being dedicated to C6 Saint Tyfriog/Tyfrydog, and also said to be founded by Saint Breoc. Between the two vertical gravestones within the iron railings can be seen part of the boxtomb of Thomas Heslop, victim of the last duel to be fought in Wales on September 10th 1814. The story is he got into a dispute in a pub with some local gents following a partridge shoot, tempers became inflamed and he challenged a local solicitor, John Beynon. But when, two days later, it was pistols at dawn in nearby Dan-warin fields, the victim was Heslop, shot, apparently treacherously, in the back by Beynon who was charged with manslaughter and subsequently fled to America. 'Poor Heslop' was buried in this quiet churchyard, far from his native West Indies. See http://www.newcastleemlyn.info/page14.html However recent research and examination of the fatal bullet (which was preserved in the attending doctor's family) reveals that Heslop was shot fair and square and Beynon deserves to be exonerated! See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/5384730.stm
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©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.7km<br/>Was this the old church school?
©Marion Phillips
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.7km<br/>An avenue of lime trees leads to the Victorian parochial school building and St Tyfriog's church, off the A475 old turnpike road.
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©Stuart Logan
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©Marion Phillips
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>The rolling hills.
©Dawn Faith Worrall
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Also post box, at junction with minor road leading to the rest of the village. It's possible there was once a post office here. Most of the houses along the main road face south towards the river, the land opposite sloping steeply down towards it.
©ceridwen
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>
©Stuart Logan
Dist:1.1km east<br/>A grand house occupying a commanding position on the Carmarthenshire bank of the Teifi. It is a listed building, mostly C19 but with elements dating from C17. It possessed a large estate of which most of the buildings, along with the house itself, are now let for holiday accommodation. This was an area in which the Rebecca rioters were active in opposing the tolls that penalized road users, during the 1840s. The mansion was at the time the home of one Captain Lloyd, who, wrote G.G.Treherne (1837-1923) in 'A Victorian Childhood in Wales' "made himself very unpopular with the Rebeccas, through administering stern justice to them, with the result that a bilingual proclamation was posted on the turnpike gates near Dolhaidd setting out Capt. Lloyd's sins and giving notice that unless he recanted (how I know not) before a certain day his home would be burnt. As a matter of fact parts of his premises were burnt, and his old coachman frightened out of his wits." The name Dolhaidd means barley field.
©ceridwen
Dist:1.1km north<br/>An unclassified road winds up through the woods with some scattered houses. The field in the foreground has recently been cut for silage.
©Marion Phillips

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