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Dist:0.3km<br/>Beside Garnon's Mill Road and no doubt once powered by water from the Morgenau. Presumably it was a corn mill and perhaps part of the Castell Malgwyn estate.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The single span of this 200 year old bridge with a low Afon Morgenau flowing beneath it. The masonry looks in good repair but some tie rods seem to have been inserted into the bridge in recent decades.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>HAMMET BRIDGE was erected and GARNON'S MILL ROAD was made at the sole expence of SIR BENJAMIN HAMMET Knt. Opened Aug. 21st 1800
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Dist:0.4km<br/>There are a pointed flood arches on both sides of the main span (although the one on the other side is blocked up by earth.) I wonder how often the river is so high that they come into use?
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The road was built by Benjamin Hammet of Castell Malgwyn, at the end of the C18, to replace the original Llechryd to Cilgerran road which ran through his property, see [[[1929428]]]. Such were the days when the re-routing of an inconvenient highway, along with the removal of other undesirable features such as peasants' dwellings, could be effected by the rich and powerful without let or hindrance. As put by Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village: The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Not marked on either the new or old OS maps but this solid rock face could have been the source of stone for Benjamin Hammet's bridge a little way away. However some of the surface is so smoothly cut that perhaps it can only have been done with modern machinery.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Pont-rhyd-y-ceirt: bridge of the cart ford. Presumably the bridge took the place of the ford. A hamlet that was in Manordeifi parish, now part of Cilgerran. The house in view, on the left past the bridge, was the home of locally-renowned, self-taught photographer Tomas Mathias (1866-1940) who captured a unique pictorial record of rural life in the surrounding area and whose old glass negatives were left neglected in the house until rescued in recent years. See http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/mathias/
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Dist:0.7km<br/>In 1668 Lettice Morgan of Cilfowyr was involved with the early Welsh Baptists gathering in Rhydwilym, not far away, and subsequently she and her family started holding meetings at their home. In 1716 a local man gave a piece of land for the building of the first chapel and also the use of the water from a nearby stream for baptisms. Several members of the early Baptist congregation here emigrated via Cardigan to the Welsh Tract in Delaware and Pennsylvania. The chapel stands adjacent to the former farmyard, down a lane leading from the road from which it is not visible.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Perched on the valleyside next to the old gentry farm of the same name, this chapel was originally established in 1716 although the present edifice was built in 1877. It is still in use today and has a very fine interior. It has an interesting history, going back to the original, late C17, Welsh Particular Baptist community in the area, see http://www.walesawakening.org/pictures.php
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Dist:0.7km<br/>The thickness of the foliage and the dark shadows on a sunny day make it hard to gauge the depth but at some points the rivulet runs as much as 100 feet below the track, passing through a steep sided ravine which is difficult of access today. When the original landscaping took place the idea was to create a romantic dingle that could be followed and crossed in several places. The Morgenau, a mere trickle today after an unusually dry spring, is normally a fast-flowing stream whose noisy babble was intended to contrast the lazy flow of the Teifi on the opposite side of the grounds.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Serried ranks of slate grave markers testify to this chapel's historical significance. It has a capacity for 500 worshippers but the regular congregation today is only around 15. There is a breathtaking view northeast across the Teifi valley and towards the distant Ceredigion coast.
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Dist:0.8km<br/>Once part of the 'pleasure garden' this area is thick woodland now but a network of paths remains. Right, the way leads back to Castell Malgwyn house, straight on the course of the old carriage road runs parallel to the Teifi towards the village of Cilgerran, left, the route follows the Morgenau valley.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The 'tunnel' was probably constructed around the turn of the C18 when Benjamin Hammet who bought the estate in 1791 initiated a major landscaping project under the direction of Charles Price of Llechryd, a professional landscaper about whom little is known. Belts and stands of trees were planted, woodland and riverside walkways created and pleasure gardens laid out, even the old highroad between Llechryd and Cilgerran, which ran along the ridge under which the tunnel passes, was moved some distance to the south for the convenience of the wealthy property-owners!
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The 'tunnel' was probably constructed around the turn of the C18 when Benjamin Hammet who bought the estate in 1791 initiated a major landscaping project under the direction of Charles Price of Llechryd, a professional landscaper about whom little is known. Belts and stands of trees were planted, woodland and riverside walkways created and pleasure gardens laid out, even the old highroad between Llechryd and Cilgerran, which ran along the ridge under which the tunnel passes, was moved some distance to the south for the convenience of the wealthy property-owners! Further beautification of the grounds was carried out by the Gower family who owned the estate during the C19. A full description of the Castell Malgwyn property (with its several listed buildings) can be accessed via the Coflein website, see http://www.coflein.gov.uk/pdf/CPG151/
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