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Dist:0.3km<br/>Farm on the NE edge of Aberteifi/Cardigan, looking out across the Teifi river valley.
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©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.6km<br/>A fast stretch of the A487 skirts the town nowadays. The gap created here to enable access to the town and to the supermarket positioned at this point has been the cause of a number of serious accidents and is now closed. There is a roundabout further on.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>A water storage facility at Ael y Bryn
©Richard Law
Dist:0.7km<br/>Pretty much the opposite viewpoint to that in http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689120
©Richard Law
Dist:0.7km<br/>This Tesco store arrived on the edge of Aberteifi/Cardigan in 1993, devastating the existing, traditional high street trade. It's said the town has taken 10 years to recover from the commercial impact.
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.8km<br/>Just beyond the end of the field is Treforgan farm buildings.
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Dist:0.8km<br/>The OS map shows this as a church with a spire, but it's really just a typical Welsh belfry-church with the spike from a Prussian army helmet stuck on the top.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.9km<br/>This house displays the banded-stone building technique that was used in this region for centuries. It is an attractive old place that could once have been a farm. The town expanded in this direction, northwards from its original nucleus around the bridge and the castle, during the last 3 decades of the C19 and became New Town. A glance at the map explains the name of the street, which means old-road-lane: before the by-pass it was the route that connected Cardigan and Llangoedmor to the southeast. It is now a cul-se-sac with the new road cutting across the end.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The road between Cardigan and Llechryd has a series of separate dwellings widely spaced along it but no pavement or even a verge to walk along, making it a very inhospitable route on foot as the cars sweep by.
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Dist:1.0km south<br/>Looking southwest from the A484 towards the Afon Teifi with the marshes and reed beds beyond.
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Dist:1.0km west<br/>
©Nicholas Mutton
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Built 1970: unusual to see a modern church in this area. From Wikipedia: According to the legend, a statue of Our Lady and Child was found beside the River Teifi with a burning taper in her hand. The statue was taken to the local parish church, although it was moved several times before a church was specially built to house the shrine. The present St Mary's church dates back to around 1158, making the shrine more than 800 years old. The original statue is believed to have been taken to London and destroyed in 1538 along with other Marian artefacts on the orders of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, chief minister of King Henry VIII. In 1952, the local bishop was informed that Cardigan had once possessed a famous shrine and pilgrimage site, and a new statue was carved based on the description of the original. The new statue was blessed at Westminster Cathedral in London and taken to every parish in the Diocese of Menevia before arriving in Cardigan where it was placed in Our Lady of Sorrows church. Four years later, a new church, Our Lady of the Taper, was consecrated, and the statue was placed in its current home. See http://www.cardigantaper.org/shrine/story.htm for a fuller account.
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Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>Hamlet just to the north of the town with mill house (left) and what appears to be the old mill itself (right) converted into a "Full Gospel Church". The stream is the Mwldan which flows down through Cardigan town and formerly powered several other mills in the this area.
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