Historic Tours - Wales

02/05/2024

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31/12/2023

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/welsh-band-looking-forward-big-28335461?fbclid=IwAR3hY2X6QxAA-jBpZJdmlWNrB4Oy2bs7oqpcbomF8H5S9lfWRG_fRyYRC-o

They will also share headlining duties with stars including Sir Tom Jones and Katherine Jenkins at the Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod

07/10/2023

The ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, completed by drone lighting.

📷 DRIFT/Cyberdrone.

Blog: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/

21/07/2023

Have you ever looked at a Welsh place name and thought "I don't know how to say that"? Well look no further, we've added sound files to our List of Historic Place Names glossary, to help people learn to pronounce Welsh. Try them out!

https://historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/glossary

18/07/2023

03/06/2023

On this day 2002, the Llangernyw Yew was designated as one of 50 Great British Trees as part of the celebrations of the golden jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Llangernyw Yew resides in the churchyard of St. Dygain's Church in Llangernyw, Clwyd. It is thought to be over 4,000 years old which means that it was planted sometime in the Bronze Age.

18/05/2023

The exhibition looks at the changing landscape of the region's quarries

18/05/2023

13/04/2023

It's that time of year, the baby dragons are hatching!

17/02/2023

Sally Webster is 85 and has fulfilled her wish to have a high-speed go on the world’s fastest zipline

It was a 100mph (160 km/h) trip at on the 1.5k (0.9 mile) long wire over Penrhyn Slate Quarry, near Bethesda in Gwynedd

Sally, who lives in a care home in Cheshire, said: “I never thought at my age I’d see myself at the top of Snowdonia – never mind ziplining down it”

📷 Care UK / Darren Robinson

https://bbc.in/3xoYrSv

21/09/2022

Thank you to the Cambrian News for their piece on our new Pen Dinas project with Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Dyfed Archaeological Trust!

We're looking forward to working alongside Cadw, Penparcau Community Forum and Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum on this wonderful project.

Cronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Gen / National Lottery Heritage Fund - Cymru

03/09/2022

So many great, well established businesses 😔

26/08/2022

The restaurant will be on Oowee Vegan's first Welsh branch

17/06/2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00186ch About 2 hrs 11 mins in

05/05/2022

The Wales Coast Path is celebrating its 10 year anniversary today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️🎉 The path is 870 miles long and runs all along the coast of Wales. It passes 100 beaches, 3,000 shipwrecks, 30 RNLI lifeboat stations, and 16 castles 🏰😍 The path also has a total rise and fall of 95,800 ft - over three times the height of Everest! It officially opened on May 5, 2012 - linking up existing historic coastal trails in Anglesey, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire. If you fancy giving it a go - you could walk the entire path in 6-7 weeks, averaging around 20 miles a day. But, at a more leisurely pace - it could take you up to three months.

18/03/2022

It came in the top ten for places to escape to for a break

17/03/2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-31912199

As people across the world prepare to celebrate the life of one of the world's most famous Irishmen, was St Patrick actually Welsh?

17/03/2022

26/02/2022

Liam Randall, local democracy reporter Work worth £15m to transform visitor facilities at a World Heritage Site looks set to get under way later this year. A total of £13.3m was awarded from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund in October to improve the area around the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in ...

25/02/2022

Brilliant! Llongyfarchiadau Eve - fantastic!

And now for something completely different… I’m going to Dubai!

Excited to be playing gigs through the week to celebrate Dydd Gwyl Dewi (St Davids Day), International Women’s Day and more with Welsh Government Bringing some coast mountain music to the hot sun desert ✨

Edrych ymlaen i chwarae gigs trwy’r wythnos i ddathlu Dydd Gwyl Dewi, Diwrnod Rhyngwladol y Merched a mwy… diolch i Llywodraeth Cymru am yr cyfle anhygoel! 💛

24/02/2022

✨ Did you know? ✨

Wales has the highest percentage of protected Dark Skies of anywhere in the world! We are home to two Dark Sky Reserves in the National Parks of Eryri (Snowdonia) and the Brecon Beacons National Park. We are hoping to welcome more of the National Parks and AONB family to our Dark Sky designation list soon. In the next few years, we hope to have at least 25% of the skies above Wales protected to ensure darkness can be enjoyed by our future generations.



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24/02/2022

Gwynedd Council and Snowdonia National Park have launched a registration system for events that wish to be held in Llanberis or on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon).

To find out more click the link below:
https://orlo.uk/event_registration_Psa7B

Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri - Snowdonia National Park

19/02/2022

Lychgates, pronounced lich-gate, are fascinating structures that can be found in many English churchyards. The word lychgate derives from the Old English or Saxon word for a co**se; lych. The lychgate is part of a collection of ancient words associated with death.

Such words include the lych bell; a bell rung in front of a co**se carried in procession from a house to the church. Then we have the lych way; the path which was used to carry a co**se to be buried. There is also the Lych Owl, also called the Screech Owl, because its cry was thought to be an omen of death. Finally, there is the Lyke-Wake Dirge, we often think of wakes as being after a funeral, but they originate with Lyke-Wakes which refers to when people watched over the body of the deceased between the time of death and funeral.

Lychgates are covered gateways that housed the co**se before burial. In the Middle Ages, before we have mortuaries, co**ses would be brought to the lychgate where they may have rested, waiting for burial, for a couple of days. In some ancient churchyards, we find co**se shelves built into the walls of a churchyard.

The earliest known example in England dates from the 13th century and can be found at St George’s, Beckenham in South London. Interestingly, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer made it a requirement for lychgates to be used at the start of a funeral by Priests who “metyng the co**se at the church style, shalt say”... This created a requirement for lychgates to be built to keep the co**se, priest and funeral party dry.

Following the First World War new Lychgates were built as war memorials.

📸 All Saints, Waldershare, Kent by Ian Summer

18/02/2022

Rhagchwiliad - ar gyfer sesiwn Clwb Archaeolegwyr Ifanc, siambr gladdu Barclodiad y Gawres.

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Reccy - for forthcoming Young Archaeologists' Club session, Barclodiad y Gawres burial chamber.

Gyda / with Rhys Mwyn.



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