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Search powys.gov.uk
Search results for Shakespeare
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PDF document R/X/83 - 100%
... , etc, entitled `Enwogion Sir Frycheiniog', nd [1960s?] /19 Typescript of `Shakespeare and his Connections with [1960s/70s?] Breconshire', nd /20 Photocopy ...
http://www.powys.gov.uk/uploads/media/R_X_131_to_193_bi.pdf - 11/10/2007
http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=21
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The link gives this -
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R/X/165/DD REV D R DAVIES PAPERS Acc 1542
/19 Typescript of ‘Shakespeare and his Connections with [1960s/70s?]
Breconshire’, nd
/20 Photocopy of a manuscript entitled ‘ Shakespeare and the Welsh’, delivered to the Newport Literary Society, 1916, nd [1960s/70s?]
/21 File marked ‘Shakespeare and Brecon’, includes: typescript and manuscript drafts of ‘Shakespeare and his connections with Brecon, nd
/22 File marked ‘Brittany and Maximus’, includes: manuscript notes re religion in Radnorshire, nd [1950s/60s?]; Typescript with manuscript notes entitled ‘The Early Years of Brittany’, nd [1960s?]; Typescript of a paper, ‘The Early Celtic Church, delivered [by Prof Hugh Williams?] to the Builth Clergy, 1951; typescript of a paper, ’The Breconshire Tradition’. [delivered by Iris Foster at Brecon Cathedral?], 1956; manuscript notes re early Welsh Christianity, nd [1950s?]; cutting re churches, 1952; typescript featuring biographies of famous Breconshire/Radnorshire men, nd [1960s?]; correspondence with various libraries, 1955-56, 1973; photocopy of an article on the early history of St John’s College, Oxford, nd [1950s?];
cuttings re Shakespeare, nd [1950s?];
typescript note re Thomas Jenkins of Stratford, nd [1950s?]; typescript of a paper, ‘The Radnorshire Tradition’, nd [1950s/60s?]; manuscript and photocopy of a paper, ‘The Revolt of Maximus’, nd [1950s?] [1950]-1973
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Trebarried House near Llandefalle, c. 1960
Trebarried House near Llandefalle, c. 1960
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This item comes from: Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery (Item reference: ACG/1/155). If you would like to see the original item, or require information regarding copyright, please contact the repository/contributor named above.
A photograph from the extensive 'Houses of Breconshire' collection held by Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery. A survey of significant houses in the county was initiated by the Education Committee in 1959 as a service to teachers. Houses large and small, and in rural and urban locations, were recorded in photographs and measured drawings. As many of the buildings were in poor condition at the time, the material provides a valuable architectural record of traditional houses, some of which have not survived or have been radically altered.
Trebarried House, a 17th century mansion near Llandefalle, was built for a member of the Vaughan family.
http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/22280
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Aerial photograph of Trebarried House and earthworks, 2001
http://www.tlysau.org.uk/en/blowup1/12313
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Historic Landscape Characterisation
The Middle Wye Valley
The following description, taken from the Historic Landscapes Register, identifies the essential historic landscape themes in the historic character area.
http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/midwye.htm
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http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=647
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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12.
I've found a blog referring to the Shakespeare story of Clydach,
here is an excerpt from the post...
(written only 4 days
before I discovered the same BBC page myself...)
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these anecdotes go back to at least to the 19th century, when it was
documented in a letter by the poet Campbell to Mrs. Fletcher that it
was thought that Shakespeare visited this village.
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About the Clydach, Gilwern and Llanelly Hill community
The canal at Gilwern
The Three Villages of Clydach, Gilwern and Llanelly Hill make up the
Llanelly parish ward of Monmouthshire County Council.
Situated four miles from the busy market town of Abergavenny this is
an area of outstanding natural beauty on the northernmost edge of the
Brecon Beacons National Park. Very close to the South Wales Valleys
The Clydach Gorge is an internationally renowned area of outstanding
natural beauty. The river Clydach meanders down the gorge, the banks
are lined with beech trees whilst beneath the earth there are miles of
caves. The Clydach Gorge is a haven for walkers and cavers.
Llanelly Hill perched on top of the escarpment is now largely a
dormitory village. There are spectacular views of the surrounding
countryside across the Beacons and the Black mountains for those that
visit this interesting village.
Clydach and William Shakespeare
Find out the links between William Shakespeare and Clydach in the new
article by Marit Meredith. Do you have any items about the history of
our area?
http://www.clydach-gilwern-llanellyhill.org.uk/
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Shakespeare and Clydach PDF Print E-mail
Clydach - and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
The story goes that Shakespeare himself not only visited Clydach on
his travels, but that he also drew inspiration for Midsummer Night's
Dream from local myths and superstitions.
The great Bard is said to have stayed at Clydach House when he stayed
in the village- and was quoted as 'the stranger who came looking for
the house of many windows' (which it still has to this day).
What would have spurred him on to come looking for this place, we'll
never know, unless the legends of Cwm Pwca (Hobgoblins' Dingle - or
Valley of Puck) were known further a field, perhaps.
It has been suggested that his friend Richard Price, son of Sir John
Price, of the Priory, Brecon, was the person who first made
Shakespeare aware of the Cambrian fairies and that when visiting his
friend, he sojourned to 'the Valley of Fairy Puck' (The fairy Glen)-
which became the principal machinery for his Midsummer Night's Dream -
supposedly penned as he sat in what is now known as Shakespeare's
Cave, in a dingle just above Cwm Pwca.
Cwm Pwca was where waters from the river Clydach mingled with waters
from another stream - a place that filled people with dread, because
of the malicious powers of some evil spirits believed to be residing
there.
Cwm Pwca lies below Devil's Bridge (the bridge can be accessed by
walking down past the Drum and Monkey in Blackrock, on through the
subway under the Heads of the Valley Road, then continuing down
towards the river). It is apparently called Devil's Bridge because it
looks as though the face of the devil himself is hewn into the rock
below. The river runs through a narrow channel at this point and drops
straight down into a swirling pool below, which is called 'Pwll Cwn' -
or the Dog's Pool. This dark and cavernous pool forms the centre of
the valley called Cwm Pwca -
and was where
Shakespeare
is thought to have visited and got his inspiration, if not his
knowledge, of Puck, who he subsequently introduced into his Midsummer
Night's Dream.
So is the Pwca of Clydach and the 'shrewd knavish sprite that frights
the maidens of the villag'ry ... at every turn' one and the same? It
would certainly seem so...
http://www.clydach-gilwern-llanellyhill.org.uk/
index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99
&Itemid=38
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