View across fields behind the High Street to Llandinorwig church and Capel Cefnywaen
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View across fields behind the High Street to Llandinorwig church and Capel Cefnywaen
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 5 Apr 2008
I remember this reedy field being used to grow cereals in the late 1940s. A horse was used to draw the plough and the seed scattered by hand from an old tin bath held in place with a piece of rope around the farmer's neck. Corncrakes would nest in the corn and would create a racket at night time.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.146021
Longitude
-4.116839