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Dist:0.2km<br/>The name of this cluster of houses means Tavern [at] the pass. The hostelry no longer exists but was once a crucial stop on this long, bleak upland route between Cardigan and Haverfordwest. The road, now the B4329, was used in mediaeval times and subsequently turnpiked. This point still marks the boundary between fields and unenclosed moorland, an area where travellers would have been exposed to wild weather and wilder brigands before the invention of cars.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Evening light. The bwlch (pass) in question is centre-view. The Eglwyswrw-Haverfordwest road climbs on towards Bwlch-gwynt at the top of the Preseli ridge.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.2km<br/>At this point enclosed farmland gives way to open moorland, with a cattle grid across the road at the boundary between the two. As I watched, headlights appeared out of the mist and three or four dozen bikers rolled down off the high moorland, well spaced and in no hurry - very understandable given the poor visibility. [[302952]], ceridwen's contribution (with some history of the spot), is a view looking down from the open moorland, with the gates at the cattle grid visible in the middle distance.
©Stefan Czapski
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©Rob Bainbridge
Dist:0.6km<br/>High moorland on the Preselis. Home to grazing sheep and hardy mountain ponies. There is even mention of the occasional 'big cat'! Yet to be confirmed! Carn Ingli is seen to the right of the picture. It straddles the borough of Newport and the Cwm Gwaun, a steep sided valley formed by glacial meltwaters.
©Deborah Tilley
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.8km<br/>Just a part of a mile-long migration in obedient single file.
©Dylan Moore
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©nick macneill
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.9km<br/>On the edge of the Preseli moorland. Charles' "Placenames of Pembrokeshire" lists "Penant duy", "Penantdy", "Pennant dy", "Penant ty", "Penantddy", "Pennanty" and "Penanty" as variants of this name. It means "end of the black brook". Pennant Uchaf, 400 m SW at SN09003377, is in ruins.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.0km<br/>The Afon Nyfer rises a little to the west, and descends into the green valley in the middle distance. Carn Ingli is on the right hand horizon.
©Dylan Moore
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.1km north<br/>The view from the northern slopes of the Preseli Hills near Cilgwyn towards the Afon Nyfer which feeds into Newport Bay.
©Garth Newton
Dist:1.1km north<br/>The sun briefly breaking through reveals the expanse of moorland north of the Preseli ridge. On the centre-horizon is Frenni Fawr ([[SN2035]]).
©Dylan Moore
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>From the road that runs along the valley side below Cnwc yr Hydd there is a breathtaking view of the moorland slopes of the Preseli hills sweeping down towards Brynberian.
©ceridwen

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    Afternoon, I am hoping someone will know what or where Bristol House was. My great grandmother gave birth to my grandfather there in 1928. She was a domestic servant and her residence and his place …
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