At the invitations of Nina and Carlos Laborde the Field Section Midsummer Picnic will take place at Cefndyrys, nr Builth. Cefndyrys is a small country estate situated about a mile and a half north of Builth Wells. The house was built in 1790 and a small sporting estate was created surrounding it, including four cottages …
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 …
To book, please email or phone Elsa Harflett with your menu choices by Friday 5th April. Please indicate any food allergies or dietary requirements eg Gluten/Dairy Free.Please include your contact phone number(s).Email: elsa.harflett.eh@gmail.com Tel: 07979 961276 or 01597 860894. Sunday 21 April 2024 £22.95 for 3 Courses£20.50 for 2 Courses Chef’s Homemade Soup of the DayChicken Liver …
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 …
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 …
Friday, September 15, 7.00pm A talk by Dr. David Stephenson For some two hundred years, from the late eleventh century onwards, the Mortimer family struggled to assert mastery over much of the land between Wye and Severn – which consists of modern Radnorshire and parts of Brecknock. This brought them into collision with the native …
Friday, June 23, 2023 Hay Castle is a medieval fortification and 17th-century mansion house. Originally constructed as part of the Norman invasion of Wales, the castle was designed as a ringwork overlooking the town in either the late-11th or early-12th centuries. Since 2011 it has been owned by Hay Castle Trust who have restored the …
Sunday, July 2, 2023 Coed Trewernau Mill is an extant corn mill on the bank of the Clywedog Brook, near Abbeycwmhir in Radnorshire. It is a very small corn mill with wooden working parts – doubtless once typical of many rural mills in Wales. It must have served a very small and scattered population, probably …
Friday. May 26, 2023 A talk by Bill Brittnell The foundations of the small parochial church and its associated enclosure and cemetery in Llandrindod Wells were extensively excavated between 1984 and 1987. The first evidence of activity is represented by a sub-rectangular enclosure of 4th- to 5th-century date, with other elusive evidence of activity in …
Radnorshire’s Lost Church – excavating Capel Maelog Read More »
Friday, July 28. 2023: 7:00pm An unusually well-preserved watermill with its machinery intact. It is one of the last Radnorshire mills to keep working, though stopped in 1950’s. It consists of a combined mill and millhouse. First two photographs were taken by Ann Dean. The second two by Elsa Harflett