THE RADNORSHIRE SOCIETYEstablished 1930Charity number 243372www.radnorshiresociety.orgPresident Lady Bingham The Annual Meeting of the Radnorshire Society will be held in the ballroom of the Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells on Saturday November 9th 2024 at 2.30 pm AGENDA 3.30 Dr Toby Driver will give an illustrated talk on the Iron Age Hillforts of Wales, including Radnorshire hill […]
Hello to everyone booked for Sunday 11th Aug at 2 pm Angela has sent directions from the A44. Obviously, you will have to reverse them if you’re coming the other way! Travelling east along the A44 away from New Radnor take the left signposted lane to ‘Kinnerton 2’. This lane goes directly north to Kinnerton. Once
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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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