Approaching Treleddyd-fawr from the south

Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 16 Apr 2009

Treleddyd is one of a number of tiny hamlets scattered around the Dewisland peninsula. In the Middle Ages these hamlets had a semi-manorial relationship to the bishopric of St David's, which extracted tithes. Most of the land was held not by individual ownership, but by two persons and their co-owners, and cultivated in strips or blocks, additionally there were areas of common land, much of it rough moorland around the igneous outcrops such as the one seen above, Carn Trellwyd. The oldest building in this group, the cottage on the right, is at least two hundred years old; the large farmhouse on the left of more recent date. Many of these dwellings are now holiday lets.

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