Today, we’re exploring the history of the Welsh village of Llawhaden in Pembrokeshire…
Home to the impressive Llawhaden Castle, in it’s day a luxurious fortified mansion for the bishops of St David's. The village also hosts the remains of a medieval chapel hospital, with an impressive vaulted stone roof creating a haunting atmosphere with limestone stalactites forming on the arches... And down by the river, St Aidens, a medieval church reconstructed in the 1800s, in the centre of the rear wall is an inscribed stone pillar, hinting towards an older sacred site.
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00:00 Introduction
00:47 Channel Update
1:11 Welsh Castles
1:45 Llawhaden Castle
6:55 Medieval Chapel Hospital
9:07 St Aidens Church
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Referenced in this video -
Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire chapter on Llawhaden:
archive.org/details/b22013179...
Dyfed Archaology:
www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/w...
St Aidens Church Coflein:
coflein.gov.uk/en/site/400271
Old Images:
www.rareoldprints.com/castle/L...
Map of Castles in Wales:
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMa...
Llawhaden, St Aidens:
medievalheritage.eu/en/main-p...
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Great map resources - www.oldmapsonline.org/
Google Earth Studio
Great book resources -
archive.org/
www.gutenberg.org/
books.google.co.uk/
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