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Identifier: southwalescoastf00rhys (find matches)
Title: The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946
Subjects: Wales -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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vids was always viaHaverfordwest, whence you had the proverbialheart-breaking road to traverse— sixteen milesand seventeen hills. Still there were alleviationsby the way. There was Roche Castle, six milesout from Harfat, as the country people callwhat was once their chief country town. ThisCastle since I last passed that road has been putin repair. The present Chancellor of the Ex-chequer was its tenant with his family for a briefholiday one autumn, when he asked the presentvagrom Chronicler of the Principality, who wasfast-tied in town, to visit him there—one of thoselost opportunities that never return. Roche Castle,I have little doubt, will be the scene in days tocome of a new George-and-Dragon myth, ofwhich Welsh folk-lore is rather in need as thecase stands. The Castle was built in the secondrally of the Normans in South Wales by Adamde Rupe. Half a league further on, and you drop downupon the shore by a steep descent at NewgaleBridge. This is the boundary between Little- 302
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SOLVA AND ST. DAVIDS 303 England-beyond-Wales and theLittle-Wales beyondthat again. On one side of the bridge the Anglo-Flemish stock prevails, and English is spoken;on the other, the country is Welsh in speechand thought. The inn at Newgale Bridge hasalways seemed to me one of those places ordainedfor romance in the Stevensonian sense. It may becompared by the Sentimental Traveller with thatat Leith Ferry or, if he have ever been to SeatonSluice on the Northumberland coast, with the BlueAnchor there. Once, writes that same Tra-veller, returning from Solva, I intended to takethe mail-gig back from Newgale Bridge, afterexploring the stretch of coast where St. Elvisand Pointz Castle stand. On the way a temptingsandy cove at the foot of a green cwm led me todescend, and idly loitering there I noticed presentlythat the tide was advancing and cutting off thenext rocky corner at a wild Pembrokeshire pace.Thereupon I turned back to the other horn ofthe bay, but before I could reach it the wa

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