Cardigan Walks from Brechfa
WE Love these tours, explore all of the very best of Cardigan and its coastal towns, from Ty Mawr Country Hotel you can take an easy drive to any of the below and wile away a few hours listening to the rich history of Wales.
Cardigan Walks offer Audio tours up to 15 covering more and more of the great tales from all over Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion.
Audio Tours start from £3.99 for 24 hour access and are all pet friendly, covering Pembrokeshire and Cardigan. If your looking to find a little more information about the area, these are perfect. They are around 50 minutes long and have a detailed map to assist your walk.
Each of the places are a short drive from Ty Mawr and we think are ideal for a few hours to enjoy the sights of Wales.
Here they detail the fact or story they like best from each of the 15 tours they have for rent! Enjoy!
Cardigan
Only two municipal buildings in the British Isles were built in the Neo-Gothic style – Cardigan’s Guildhall and somewhere else. The Guildhall represents a time when Cardigan was a very big fish in the pond.
Newcastle Emlyn
The last recorded duel in Wales was fought close to Emlyn on the 10th of September 1814 between Thomas Heslop and John Beynon. Beynon slighted a barmaid Heslop fancied, tensions raised, and settled in the day’s gentlemanly way. Not all participants were gentlemen, though!
Newport
Newport was founded, and its castle was built after William FitzMartin was tossed out of his family castle in Nevern by his father-in-law, Rhys ap Gruffydd. Christmas dinner was never the same afterwards.
Aberaeron
Aberaeron is a new town – relative to many settlements in Cardigan Bay. This picturesque town is a babe! The town was masterminded in the early 1800s by Rev Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne.
Llangrannog
Sarah Jane Evans was a woman who knew what she wanted! Born when education for girls wasn’t a big thing, she demanded education and fair treatment. That single-minded determination benefitted many people through Evans’ very active life. Definitely everyone’s role model
Lampeter
This university town only has its university because of a chance meeting between Thomas Burgess and John Harford. Burgess, Bishop of St Davids at the time, was considering locating the university at Llanddewi-Brefi because of its ecclesiastical history and significance.
Fishguard
Bad planning and lousy weather certainly had a part in hindering the French invasion of 1797. So did the greed of American Privateer Stephen Manhant. In 1779, Manhant came into Lower Fishguard sniffing for easy money, which inspired Fishguard to build its Fort – a deterrent when the French later came to land.
New Quay
New Quay was ground zero for the Welsh Methodist Revival in the early 1900s. Its influence spread beyond Wales and saw a number explosion towards non-conformist churches. The mega-churches in America are directly related to this movement! All from humble beginnings in little New Quay!
Milford Haven
John Lort Stokes grew up at the estate and later served a good chunk of his career on the HMS Beagle.
While sailing the seven seas, Stokes shared his cabin with Charles Darwin who published his diaries titled “The Voyage of the Beagle” on the Beagle’s return.
Narberth
Narberth features heavily in the medieval Welsh tales Mabinogion [pronounced – Mab-i-nog-ion]. In the tales, Narberth was called Arberth and was home to Prince Pwyll. Amongst his adventures – Pwyll ran afoul of Lord Arawn and his hounds paying to consequence of switching bodies with Arawn for a year and a day. In the year, Pwyll killed Arawn’s pesky neighbour. There is a lot more to this surreal and highly influential tale!
St Davids
For all the importance that St Ds had, many of its streets today sprang up hundreds of years ago. It’s quite cool to think the St Davids we see today may have been recognisable from the one William the Conqueror saw when he visited!
St Dogmaels
On the road from Poppit to Cemaes Head is the Rocket Store – now a lovely home. When built, it was a store for coastguard equipment. When any ships would get into danger, rockets with ropes attached would be fired at the ship to winch or pull people ashore.
Tenby
Beautiful Tenby has been a tourist haven for centuries. It was once a literal pigsty in the late 1600s/early 1700s. The town bet on the wrong horse in the English civil war and paid. Soon after, disease knobbled the town, and surviving merchants left rather than rebuild. How fortunes can change!