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Brynhafod, CARDIGAN, SA43 1NS

Aldi supermarket on the south side of the B4548 Aberystwyth Road.

Houses on a quiet residential street just off the old main road out of Cardigan.

Looking out of Cardigan up what would have been the old main road north, prior to the construction of the present bypass.

This house displays the banded-stone building technique that was used in this region for centuries. It is an attractive old place that could once have been a farm. The town expanded in this direction, northwards from its original nucleus around the bridge and the castle, during the last 3 decades of the C19 and became New Town. A glance at the map explains the name of the street, which means old-road-lane: before the by-pass it was the route that connected Cardigan and Llangoedmor to the southeast. It is now a cul-se-sac with the new road cutting across the end.

Built 1970: unusual to see a modern church in this area. From Wikipedia: According to the legend, a statue of Our Lady and Child was found beside the River Teifi with a burning taper in her hand. The statue was taken to the local parish church, although it was moved several times before a church was specially built to house the shrine. The present St Mary's church dates back to around 1158, making the shrine more than 800 years old. The original statue is believed to have been taken to London and destroyed in 1538 along with other Marian artefacts on the orders of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, chief minister of King Henry VIII. In 1952, the local bishop was informed that Cardigan had once possessed a famous shrine and pilgrimage site, and a new statue was carved based on the description of the original. The new statue was blessed at Westminster Cathedral in London and taken to every parish in the Diocese of Menevia before arriving in Cardigan where it was placed in Our Lady of Sorrows church. Four years later, a new church, Our Lady of the Taper, was consecrated, and the statue was placed in its current home. See http://www.cardigantaper.org/shrine/story.htm for a fuller account.

Heading towards Tesco

Part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Menevia, Our Lady of the Taper Catholic Church is set back from the south side of Aberystwyth Road. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/534795 for an earlier view and some details.

The wall behind this gate-pier used to bear an Ordnance Survey rivet benchmark. Height: 32.5222m OD (Newlyn). Mark verified by the Ordnance Survey in 1975. Description: NBM RIVET WALL DELFAN. 0.6m above ground. 3rd Order BM.

Henffordd Road became a dead-end road when it was bisected by the Cardigan bypass in 1980. There used to be a culvert at this junction, which bore an Ordnance Survey pivot benchmark: The mark was used on the Warrington to Pembroke Docks line of the First Primary Levelling of England & Wales in 1851-1852. It was levelled with a height of 105.075' above OD (Liverpool). Description: 744. Mark on flag over gullet at junction of roads, East side of road ; 0.34 ft. below centre of road. Page 536 of the abstract: https://www.bench-marks.org.uk/abstract/ew1gl/1GLA_536.png

A closer view of the woodpecker decoy on a telegraph, described here Image Note that it appears to represent a European black woodpecker and not an indigenous species.