Tag: 2014
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Skirrid from road up to Hatterrall Hill
Another image taken whilst on a walk. This time the first stage of The Beacons Way – from The Skirrid (Holy Mountain), near Abergavenny, to Llanthony Priory. A lovely early autumn day which had everything, sunshine, a bit of rain and blasting winds from the first shocks of the worn out Hurricane Gonzalo, which was…
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Charles Stewart Rolls
Returning from a visit to Hereford, we stopped in Monmouth. I hadn’t realised that Jenny had never seen the town. Quite apart from the historic gatehouse over the river, the town is now famous for its self-styled Monmouthpedia virtual existence, with QR-codes all round the town. Of much greater interest than that are its two…
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Salmon Leaps
Just outside Dinas Powis in the Vale of Glamorgan, near to Michaelstone-le-Pit, are the disused fisheries known as Salmon Leaps. There’s a lovely circular walk from Dinas Powis that takes these in, as well as extension off it that goes to Caerau and the unexpected vantage point that allows you to look over the city…