Llantwit Major town hall
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Llantwit Major town hall
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 3 Apr 2015
Located at the eastern end of Burial Lane. The Tudor Tavern is on the right. A blue plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3178824 on the building records that this was a Norman manorial courthouse for the holding of courts leet (tenants) and baron (freeholders) for the manor of Boverton and Llantwit Major. It was rebuilt under the lordship of Jasper Tudor (1485-1495); became a guildhall in the time of Henry VIII, then the bailiff's house. It was then leased in part to the St. Illtyd's lodge of the Oddfellows Society in 1845 and taken over by the first parish council in 1894. In early April 2015, a board at the entrance shows VISITOR INFORMATION INSIDE.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.407982
Longitude
-3.486017