Presteigne Assembly Rooms Our next visit will be to Presteigne on Sunday 14th July at 2 pm when Sue Linacre will show us the many blue plaques around the town and tell us the stories behind them. For practical reasons we are limiting numbers to 20. I will book people in on a first come, […]
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Talk by Jenny Hill and Paul Sambrook on recent fieldwork in Elenydd.
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Prof Howard Williams and Prof Keith Ray are, under the auspices of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, conducting a public day conference on “Conflict, Collaboration and Early Medieval Frontiers”. The Conference will take place at The Venue in the Park, Alyn Waters Country Park, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, LL11 4AG: 09.30-16.00, Saturday 1st June 2024. All welcome. More details,
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The Mortimer History Society is holding a conference on Landscapes of the Medieval Marches, 18 May 2024, to which members of the Radnorshire Society are invited. Fuller details of the programme and booking can be found on the Society’s website: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/events/event-18-5-24
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March 2, Saturday 2:00pmA talk on the history of the chapel by Derek Price. Donations welcome towards the upkeep of the chapel. We have been invited to Maesyronnen chapel near Glasbury for a guided tour and a talk about its long and interesting history by Derek Price, a member of the chapel. If you would
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Radnorshire Society members have been invited to this event by Addoldai Cymru.
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A large collection of handwritten sermons has been discovered in Caebach chapel in Llandrindod Wells. The sermons were written by Revd John Jones, AKA Jones the Rock (1820-1907). He was born in Radnorshire, the son of the pastor of the local Rock Baptist Chapel. He trained for ministry at Pontypool Baptist Academy between 1844 –
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This tour of Llanidloes Church and churchyard will be conducted by the noted medieval historian Dr David Stephenson. The medieval church contains five of the fourteen arches either side of the much longer nave of the Cistercian Abbey Cwmhir. The arches, and other features, were taken from the Abbey at the time of its dissolution
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A new book by Toby Driver on Welsh iron-age hillforts has just been published. Toby Driver is very well know for his aerial photography of archaeological sites in Wales so it is great to see that this much awaited book will shortly become available. It can be ordered, for £20 , by calling 01597 851685
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On Sunday 2nd July Dr Tim Haines and Dr Melanie Walters welcomed twenty-four members of the Field Section to their delightful home, Coed Trewernau Mill, situated between Crossgates and Abbeycwmhir. The cornmill, and its adjoining cottage, lies beside the bank of the Clywedog Brook, and is surrounded by a beautiful garden on different levels, with
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