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First let me draw your attention to my last posts in following blogs in:
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Welsh Remembrancer.
- 20 visits - 08:53Blog of Gethin 'Iestyn' Gruffydd subtitled Remembrance, Retrospective and Revisionary, Riot and Rebellion, Revelry and Re-enactment.
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Also another post in:
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CAMPAIGNS CYMRU: VYRNWY CAMPAIGN: THE WEST AWAKES! THE WEST ARISE ...
4 Aug 2010 ... memory of pobl Mynydd Bach who in 1826 made a stand for Land and Liberty....... LAND & LIBERTY CAMPAIGN CYMRU 2010: 'VYRNWY MAS O'. ...
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In which I suggest the possibly of a Radical Rural March - 'Third Patriotic River/Road' beginning with a rally on Mynydd Bach, Ceredigion, possibly this coming Sunday 8 August that is followed with a march upon the Council Offices in Aberaeron. Reasons why will be found in blog link above, this wll be either an alternative to the
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'Second Patriotic River/Road' of the 'Long Walk For Wales' or, associated with as in particular a 'LANGUAGE', Land and Liberty aspect of the Campaign Against the New Colonialism of Cheque Book Conquest regards the Great Vyrnwy Estate Land Grab.
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This I shall regard as the 'Third Patriotic River/Road, confused? Don't be!, put up with my 'esoteric mind' due to, too much reading of Umberto Eco. There are 'Six Rivers' that flow into the 'Afon Efyrnwy', which makes it 'Seven Rivers'. I am just paying homage to these rivers by naming of Six/Seven? potential routes for alternative or associated 'regional' or 'Organisations' march routes as 'Patriotic River/Roads'. Note, I have already chosen mine, it will be in homage to the Afon Eiddew, of course with a nod in direction of 'Mudiad Cofiwn' Search web for Cofiwn. I am not going to chose any other River/Road names for other Marches of the 'Long Walk For Wales', not least as you may wish to conclude your march in area of such rivers. Thus
I am leaving it to the organisers of marches to themselves choose a River to pay homage to, if organising go suss the Six Rivers asap and let me know choice of name, first come first served ok! re my notifying others via this blog. Yes! I am trying to get you to self inform and self educate in everything I write, even if often it's a bit too esoteric but remember the esoteric opens the mind to all sorts and forms of non rigid thinking, gets you out of the box!
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Now to the potential 'Second Patriotic River/Road?' of the 'Long Walk For Wales' immediately post Eisteddfod, heading north via 'Central Cymru' -'Stepping Back Into The Past' as follows:
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Starting in Blackwood at the Chartist Statue, this coming Sunday or Monday or at another time?
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NOTES | Blackwood - Chartist Bridge and statue on Flickr - Photo ...
- 2 visits - 18 Jul6 posts - 1 author - Last post: 21 Jun 2008"The sculpture is made from thousands of steel rings creating a 'mesh' figure - symbolising theChartistprinciple of binding together and ...
www.flickr.com/photos/art_newport/2598323354/ - Cached - Similar.WalesOnline - News - South Wales Valleys - Rhymney Valley ...
19 Jun 2008 ... A STATUE has been installed to commemorate the Chartist Movement.
www.walesonline.co.uk/.../chartist-statue-commemorates-battle-for-democracy-91466-21096648/ - Cached - Similar.In the land of the Tarw Scotch/Scotch Cattle, remember 2010 is the 175th Anniversary of the execution of one of their leaders Edward Morgan, Why no great drama on this at this years Eisteddfod 2010? after all there's been such on Owain Glyndwr, Rebecca, Tithe Wars and Anne Griffiths et al! of interest to 'Cultural Nationalism' of course, but not it seems 'Tarw Scotch?' was not deemed suitable for an Eisteddfod Audience?.Scotch Cattle, Sirhowy Valley
- 4 visits - 24 Jul.On! On! On! to Merthyr of the 1831 Workers Insurrection:..To Brecon along the road down which the Soldiers came to be ambushed by the Workers from the ridge of Darren Fach close to Cefn Coed y Cymmer. See below link to Brecon History and note in particular another Great Norman Land Grab, this time of medieval Brycheiniog..Map link for Mathrafal Castle. A royal seat - the original capital of the Princes of Powys. The site may have shifted from an earlier one on a hill top 1km ....
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- 08:52Jump to Early history: In Roman Britain Y Gaer, Brecon (Cicucium) was established as a Roman cavalry base for the conquest of Roman Wales and Brecon ....Then North of Brecon there is more contemporary example of English Military Land Grabbing on quite a big scale, that being Mynydd Epynt:.Epynt without people ...and Much More
The Epynt (Eppynt to the Anglicised) being emptied of people plus a way of life ... are now shielded from sight, a way of life forcibly removed from Hills. ... there is a great deal to follow, Cefn Bryn Isaf Farm & family of around a ...
www.taffthehorns.com/Epynt-without-people-and-Much-More - Cached - Similar
.Pricetree family site - When the army took over Gwebedog
Pricetree, This land included the Gwebedog, the Price family farm and the ... an Order that {quotes}all the ponies grazing on Epynt were to be removed by ...
pricetree.net/mag/index.php?option=com_content... - Cached - Similar.Hopefully, you will now begin to really think and consider why I am calling for a Land and Liberty Campaign, focusing on the Vyrnwy Estate Land Grab as best opportunity Welsh 'Social' Patriots will ever have of launching such a campaign. This really is a case of Patriots, not least 'Cultural Nationalists', I consider it is time 'PUT UP OR SHUT UP! The same goes for those who annually gather at Cilmeri, for a rally to remember Llywelyn III who was actually killed some miles away at Aberedw.Cilmeri Commemoration - Adfywiad Cilmeri 2007,8,9,2010 & 11 ...
- 3 visits - 09:161 Dec 2009 ... This blog will inform on the beginnings of 'Cofiwn' and explain the inspiration ...RALI CILMERI 2008 40th Anniversary of Rali Cilmeri. ... CILMERI COMMEMORATION 2009- 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Rally welcoming FWA ...
coffadcilmeri.blogspot.com/2009/.../cilmeri-commemoration-2009-40th.html -Cached - Similar.On to Rhaeadr and a little info on the third 'Rebecca Revolt' concerning poaching on the River Wye, I once read a good article on this but now cannot find. When I do, I will reserch some more and post a feature to one of my blogs..Rebecca Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 3 visits - 09:21.Close by is the Elan Valley and it's Dams inc the Claerwen Dam , more land Expropriation for English Reservoirs:.Lost village of the dammed; It's 100 years since the Elan valley...
Much of the valley now covered by five huge reservoirs belonged in 1892 to the manor ... They would have taken the village down between 1904 and 1909. ... off their land, there's little doubt that the Victorian dams of the Elan valley ...
www.thefreelibrary.com/Lost+village+of+the+dammed%3B+It's+100+years+since+the+Elan+valley+was...-a0121215117 - Cached..The following two links are large but very informative,I suggest you down load or copy on disc- to read again.
.Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Projects - Historic Landscapes ...
A Submerged Valley, published in 1894, as the Elan valley reservoir scheme was being constructed. .... 70 square miles of land could be taken for a public purpose withoutdispossessing very many more people, destroying many more homes. ...
www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/elan/evlite.htm - Cached - Similar.- [PDF]
ELAN AND CLAERWEN VALLEYS, POWYS: HISTORICAL BRIEFING PAPER
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26 May 2009 ... The case study comprises two contiguous land units: the registered ... areas of Cwmdeuddwr Common and the Elan Valley Estate thus ..... taken in evidence concerning Llanfadog's 'rights of sheepwalk' in Clettwr, in the ... reservoirs and by the severance of some huts from the relevant sheepwalks and ...
commons.ncl.ac.uk/?q=system/files/ElanHistoricalBriefing2.pdf - Similar.On to Llanidloes and another Welsh Chartist Revolt 1839..BBC - Mid Wales Llanidloes - Chartist Revolt
15 Feb 2008 ... An article by Gay Roberts about the Chartists of Llanidloes.
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/llanidloes/.../chartists.shtml - Cached - Similar.To Newtown, note the 'Early Period' in the below, re more Anglo - Norman Welsh Land Grabbing, this time with grave consequences to Welsh Independnce pre 1282:..The road between Newton and Welshpool betwen 1819 - 1839 witnessed communities on either side of the road at least on a dozen occaisions when local Yoemanry and as well troops from Brecon, Abrystwyth and Shrewsbury were called out to quell 'Popular Disturbences'. Ref here is an article titled: 'The Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire': Law and Disorder, 1837 - 1847. by Edward Parry in the Montgomeryshire Collection no 97.
.Following the town Owain Glyndwr 'Beat Up' at conclusion of his great Northern raid between 18 - 24 Medi 1400, being suprised himself on the 24th at his camp on the bank of Afon Efyrnwy by an 'English Posse'..Close by, a most historic Welsh Medieval Site, keeping in mind that Owain Glyndwr is in direct descent form the ancient Native Royal House of the Princes of Powys:.Mathrafal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mathrafal near Welshpool, in Powys, Mid Wales, was the seat of the Kings and Princes of Powys probably from the 9th century until its destruction in 1212 by ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathrafal - Cached - Similar.Mathrafal Castle
The seat of Powys was transferred to Welshpool in the early c13th, and Llywelyn ab Iorwerth destroyed Mathrafal in 1212. Traces of wall still remain. ...
www.castlewales.com/mathrafl.html - Cached - Similar.Ancient Powys
It was during the years between 823 and 863 that the ruling family of Powys moved their court to Mathrafel and centered their residences around Mechain, ...
www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id79.html - Cached.On to Vyrnwy via Meifod, scene of a major Anti - Tithe Riot in June of 1887, despite Riot Act being read up to 50 farmers and 34 Police were injured, yes! I would call that some major riot! Obviously, then Pobl Cymry prepared to make a stand for Land and Liberty! (see Welsh Land League 1886).Welsh Icons - Meifod
Meifod is a small village 7 miles north-west of Welshpool in mid Wales ... the Montgomeryshire MP and leader of the post-war Liberal Party between 1945 and 1956. ... The rectorial tithes, which anciently belonged to the abbey of Strata ...
www.welshicons.org.uk/html/meifod.php - Cached.There you are! both above sites are not far from Vyrnwy, so choice of R&R Camp down and a choice of locations. maybe Mathrafel for Nationalists and Meifod for Socialist Patriots..Then on, the last leg to:.BBC News - Public meeting hears concerns over Vyrnwy estate sale
27 Jul 2010 ... Vyrnwy Dam Land around the lake will be sold in four lots ... Around 70 people attended a public meeting in Llanwddyn to discuss Severn Trent ... She said there was is only one topic of conversation in the village at the moment. .... software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so. ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-10772644 - Cached.Lake Vyrnwy and Llanwddyn Powys Wales History Newsletter Photographs
.Victorian Llanfyllin - Llanwyddyn, the drowned village
The whole valley behind the dam was to be flooded, and this valley contained the old village of Llanwddyn. Work on the dam building project began in 1881,...
history.powys.org.uk/school1/llanfyllin/flooded.shtml - Cached - Similar.
.Well hope you found that 'Walk Into The Past' informative and inspirational enough to get you all wound up and just itching to get involved in the suggested 'Long Walk For Wales', Go on! do it? If only for a few miles, it may be done as a relay as per rota, no need for any one to walk all the way unless they really want to? Remember, keep me informed, I can make it to Merthyr to present my 'Tref Gwald Nag Arglwydd' Banner to marchers. Hopefully as many as possible will start to prepare their own Banners and placards and take as many Welsh flags of all kind. I will see to it my 1831 Red Banner makes it, as well as others I have in my collection..Think I will take a break now, the last four posts were done on a 12 hours plus shift over two days and no pay, so no overtime either. Think I will now go watch a movie, maybe this 'Inception', need a total bit of escapism!.Hwyl!.Gethin..PS: Most of the above information comes from my own archives, I had plannned to do a book and doc film on my radical patriotic version of Welsh History but it's getting all too much for one person. So thinking of setting up a Project Group to deal with this, any one interested in joining in, let me know and we will arrange a meeting to discuss further. Possibly ths is an ideal Initiative for the Seven Rivers Project to sponsor?.
