[rear cover blurb] Radnorshire in many respects is Wales in microcosm, hilly, wild, beautiful and small; it has prehistoric settlements, very early Christian llans, ruins of medieval castles and sites of former battlefields. The great Welsh Princes of the Middle Ages passed that way, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, the Lord Rhys, the two mighty Llywelyn of the thirteenth century and Owain Glyndwr himself. / After the Act of Union the shouting and the tumult died and there was no more fighting in Radnorshire, as nonconformists spread their ideas and built their chapels and the drovers crossed the hills with their flocks until the railway came to usher in modern times. / Against the backcloth of the unchanging hills may still be seen Rhulen and Paincastle, Cefnllys and Pilleth, Cascob and Disserth, Glascwm and the Pales, while in the north of the county, in the remote countryside north of Rhayader there is something special to be seen, the Gilfach Reserve, where the Radnorshire Wild Life Trust has restored a longhouse and set up a magnificent Nature Reserve.
Author(s): Donald Gregory
Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Year: 1994
Language: English
Commentary: Covers 150dpi.
City: Llanrwst, Gwynedd, Wales
Tags: Baptists, Beaker Folk, Giraldus Cambrensis, King Charles I, Civil War, Owain Glyndwr, Knighton, Llandrindod, Maesyfed, Methodism, Nonconformity, Offa's Dyke, Powys, Presteigne, Quakers, Rhayader, River Bed People, Tudor, Union with England, Llandrindod Wells, Welsh Marches, River Wye
Radnorshire: A Historical Guide
Title Page
Printer's Imprint
Acknowledgements
CONTENTS
Foreword
List of Maps and Illustrations
I. BEFORE 1066
a. In prehistoric times
b. Roman occupation
c. The spread of Christianity
d. Offa’s Dyke
II. 1066 - 1536
A. The enemy at the gate
a. The occupation of the Marches
b. Norman castles
c. Norman towns
d. The Christian church in Norman times
e. Notes and Illustrations
i. Motte and bailey
ii. St Michael
iii. Cascob
B. Developments in the 12th and 13th centuries
a. Giraldus Cambrensis in Radnorshire
b. Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
c. Notes and Illustrations
i. The siege of Llanbadarn Fawr church
ii. Glascwm’s magic bell
C. Towards Union with England?
a. Owain Glyndŵr in Radnorshire
b. The Tudor advance
III. AFTER 1536
1. The Drovers’ Roads
2. 17th century; local impact of Civil War and the Commonwealth
3. The rise of Nonconformity
4. Notes and Illustrations
a. Charles I in Radnorshire
b. Baptist burial ground at Glascwm
c. Methodism at Devanna
d. Social gatherings in church and churchyard
e. Three 19th century vicars
IV. THE TOWNS OF RADNORSHIRE
1. Rhayader
2. Knighton
3. Presteigne
4. Llandrindod
Index of Radnorshire Places
Author's other books
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