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Rhodiad, St. Davids, HAVERFORDWEST, SA62 6PP

These traditional style buildings with cemented roofs appear to be holiday cottages converted from farm buildings.

Outbuildings adjoining Ty Canol, later converted to residential use with the name Yr Hen Ysgol (The Old School). See Image] for a 2016 view in the same direction.

Cerddwyr yn mynd heibio i Ffarm Ty Draw. Walkers passing Ty Draw Farm (trans. furthermost house)

A cluster of low dwellings with their backs turned to the prevailing wind, walls thickly lime-washed and roofs grouted against the weather in the traditional fashion although now mostly holiday accommodation. On the right of the image is the old well with what was perhaps a pond below it.

Yr Hen Ysgol. Treleddyd-fawr.

Among the spruced-up holiday cottages in the hamlet of Treleddyd-fawr is this asymmetric survivor from a former age, perfectly adapted to its climatic environment with solid walls, sheltering porch, tiny windows and ample chimneys, the whole covered in a protective, weather-cheating coat of grout and limewash. It has been the lifetime's home to an old inhabitant who saw no reason to change what had always worked for him and his forbears...back to the mid C17 when this dwelling is reckoned to have been constructed.

Treleddyd Fawr - the old manse..

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.

On the hillside above the farm.

Like many of the self-contained and almost self-sufficient Dewisland hamlets this one had its own chapel (Bethania for the Calvinist Methodists, the edge visible on the right here) with the manse directly across the road.