WINTER WALK AT GNOLL COUNTRY PARK | NEATH | SOUTH WALES | UK
Today I visited Gnoll Country Park in Neath South Wales UK. For once it was not raining today ????????
I took my son Faizan along with me so we could go for a winter walk. It was really cold and breezy with spells of sunshine. The scenery there is so beautiful, we visit this place often and we love it.
We enjoyed our day out and we will be visiting again soon.
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A walk through history at the Gnoll estate Neath
A walk through history at the Gnoll estate Neath
Gnoll Country Park House Cellars
Neath Borough Council unknowingly purchased two houses for the price of one when obtaining Gnoll house in 1923. Gnoll house was demolished in 1957 by the council and this house was known as the 18th century mansion of the Mackworth family.
The other unknown house purchased was the original and smaller 17th century gentry hall-house built by the Evans family who were 'of the Gnoll' and Neath. The Mackworths married into the Evans family 30 years after the Evans gentry hall-house was built on the Gnoll Estate.
During the 18th Century, generations of the Mackworths upgraded Gnoll House. Sir Herbert Mackworth added north and south wings to create the illusion of castle towers turning a classical mansion into the grandeur of Gnoll House.
By 1845 the north east wing of the house had gone. The end of the Mackworth era saw the demise of the Great Gnoll House and Estate. In 1881 Charles Evan Thomas who then owned the Gnoll House pulled down the east wing of the house and changed the appearance of the house by removing the castellated ornamentation. These changes reduced the grandeur of the house by 40ft.
Places to see in ( Neath - UK )
Places to see in ( Neath - UK )
Neath is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. Historically in Glamorgan, the town of Neath is located on the river of the same name, 7 miles (11 km) east northeast of Swansea.
Historically, Neath was the crossing place of the River Neath and has existed as a settlement since the Romans established the fort of Nido or Nidum in the AD 70s. The Roman fort took its name from the River Nedd; the meaning is obscure but 'shining' or simply 'river' have been suggested. Neath is the Anglicised form.
St Illtyd visited the Neath area and established a settlement in what is now known as Llantwit on the northern edge of the town. The church of St. Illtyd was built at this settlement and was enlarged in Norman times. The Norman and pre Norman church structure remains intact and active to day within the Church in Wales. The Welsh language name for Neath is Castell-nedd, referring to the Norman Neath Castle.
Neath was a market town that expanded with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century with new manufacturing industries of iron, steel and tinplate. The Mackworth family, who owned the Gnoll Estate. The River Neath is a navigable estuary and Neath was a river port until recent times. The heavy industries are no more with the town being a commercial and tourism centre. Attractions for visitors are the ruins of the Cistercian Neath Abbey, the Gnoll Park and Neath Indoor Market.
The previous borough council was absorbed into the larger unitary authority of Neath Port Talbot on 1 April 1996. The town encompasses the electoral wards of Neath East, Neath North and Neath South. Neath and the surrounding area is represented at Westminster by Christina Rees MP (Labour) and in the National Assembly for Wales by Gwenda Thomas AM (Labour).
Neath is served by First Great Western on the South Wales Main Line at Neath railway station, on Windsor Road, in the heart of the town. Services operate to Port Talbot Parkway, Bridgend, Cardiff Central, Newport, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Reading and London Paddington to the east and Swansea, Carmarthen and West Wales to the west. Services also operate to Hereford, Shrewsbury and Manchester Piccadilly.
Neath bus station is at Victoria Gardens, a five-minute walk from the railway station. National Express services call at the railway station. From Victoria Gardens, First Cymru provides direct inter-urban services to nearby Swansea and Port Talbot in addition to South Wales Transport who provide many similar local services.
( Neath - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Neath . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Neath - UK
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Neath Wales U.K.
The beautiful and historic town of Neath , Wales U.K.
Neath Workingmens Club 2016
Neath Workingmens Club (Lounge) February 2016
Skewen park,Neath.
my first attempt at flying my drone.
Day 6, bungalow buy to sell, Neath, South Wales
Day 6 of our current project, and some big changes in just 24 hours! We've got a bedroom with an ensuite!
PB Armitage Shanks Tiffany LLBI @13:08, Metrocentre, Upper Blue Mall (Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, UK)
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house explosion neath
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Memories of Neath.
Old photos of Neath.
Early Inscribed Stones - British Goblins CT032
Early Inscribed Stones
British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 4
by Wirt Sikes
Early Inscribed Stones tells us all about famous stones that dance, superstitions about rocking stones, and Cromlechs. Sikes tells us the story of the Sagranus Stone and the White Lady, and how humans can be turned into stone. He finishes by telling us about the fairy legends, and the fairy castle at St. Nicholas.
Running Order:
Early Inscribed Stones 1:50 The Stone Pillar of Banwan Bryddin, near Neath 3:54 Catastrophe accompanying its Removal 5:04 The Sagranus Stone and the White Lady 5:52 The Dancing Stones of Stackpool 6:39 Human Beings changed to Stones 7:17 St. Ceyna and the Serpents 9:39 The Devil's Stone at Llanarth 11:21 Rocking Stones and their accompanying Superstitions 12:59 The Suspended Altar of Loin-Garth 13:31 Cromlechs and their Fairy Legends 14:53 The Fairies' Castle at St. Nicholas, Glamargonshire 15:40 The Stone of the Wolf Bitch 17:00 The Welsh Melusine 17:32 Parc y Bigwrn Cromlech 18:50 Connection of these Stones with Ancient Druidism 20:01
Names Used in this Section
All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you.
Banwan Bryddin Sagranus Stone St. Ceyna Llanarth Loin-Garth St. Nicholas, Glamargonshire Melusine (french) Parc y Bigwrn Maen Llythyrog Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire 'Marci Caritini Filii Bericii' Lady Mackworth Rev. Mr. Williams Tir-y-Cwm Gnoll Gardens 'Dur'n catwo ni!' Cymro or Saeson Sagranus Stone at St. Dogmell's, Pembrokeshire Stackpool Warren Horestone Park Sais's Fpord Moelfre Hill, Carnarvonshire Llandyfrydog, Anglesea Carreg y Lleidr Rolldritch (Rhwyldrech?) Prince Brychan, Breconshire River Severn Camden Bristol Keynsham Cornu Ammonis Llanarth, Aberaeron, Cardignashire Diawl Mecca Pontypridd Nennius Loin-garth, Gower St. Illtyd Frennifawr
Fairy Frolic at the Cromlech
Castle Correg Korreds & korregs Haute Auvergne Pirols fée Melusina Gast Rhymhi 'Ange par la figure, et serpent par la reste' Pressina Kilhwch and Olwen Parc-y-Bigwrn, Llanboidy, Carmarethenshire John Jones
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Reflections of a Bygone Century - (SE - P1) - Street Scenes
Historical pictures of Neath, Glynneath, Cwmgwrach, pontneddfechan and the vale of neath, from the book compiled by Glyn Davies.
WALES' OLDEST TOUCH-JUDGE: John Roberts (NEATH RFC & WALES 'B')
History of Neath Abbey Monastery
History of Neath Abbey Monastery
Birchgrove ,Swansea.
Drone footage of Birchgrove ,Swansea.
Penbryn Road, Skewen Street Party. Queen`s Silver Jubilee
Queen`s Silver Jubilee Penbryn Road Springfield Skewen
Ghosts (orbs) in our room at the castle hotel in neath
Orbs