Gwernyfed

Gwernyfed

A surprising NEW Shakespeare story...

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Old Gwernyfed Manor

Gwernyfed, the great Celtic longhouse home for a Welsh chieftain and his clan, was modernized in 1590. Three wings were added to the house, transforming its shape from the letter "I" to the letter "E", in honour of Elizabeth, the reigning Queen

She would have been pleased to see the great spiral staircase newly built around the huge oaken post. The oak was a mast from a ship of the wrecked Spanish Armada, washed up on the Welsh shore

William Shakespeare delighted in some of the other wood in the house: he carved a cryptic message on the oaken Minstrel's Screen. It was correctly deciphered only a few years ago by a British Intelligence officer who was staying at Old Gwernyfed Manor

http://www.storyfest.com/wales.html

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I am looking for the location of this house, vis a vis the Cave.

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This is what I found...

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Surrounding Area

Old Gwernyfed is approximately 5 miles from Hay-on-Wye where there are many second-hand book shops, antique shops, restaurants and inns.

There are also several good riding centres nearby. Canoeing on the River Wye is close by at Glasbury-on-Wye. Hill walking is available right on the doorstep.

The closest pub is The Three Horseshoes in the village.

http://www.stayinwales.co.uk/detail.cfm?idnum=6437

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this is very near Whitney (on Wye)
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Glasbury is in the family tree information given on another page.

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Historic Landscape Characterisation The Middle Wye: Gwernyfed Gwernyfed, Powys (HLCA 1090)

CPAT PHOTO 1042.08A

Low-lying and gently-sloping landscape with former medieval deer park and hunting lodge, remains of formal Renaissance gardens and manor house, and 19th-century landscape park and country house.

A manor house had been built at the site of Old Gwernyfed by the later medieval period, possibly to one side of a deer park covering an extensive tract of land stretching from the foothills of the Black Mountains near Felindre to the banks of the Llynfi at Aberllynfi. The deer park

Old Gwernyfed on the southern side of the area (now a hotel) is a large early 17th-century Jacobean manor house built in sandstone rubble, the south-west wing of which has been in ruins since a fire in about 1780, with a pair of circular Tudor dovecots with conical roofs in the original forecourt. The house forms part of a complex which includes largel

http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mworname.htm

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see also

http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/1090.htm

Historic Landscape Characterisation The Middle Wye Valley