Ebook: Radnorshire: A Historical Guide

[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.