by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 25, 2024 | River of the Month
Afon Teifi Follow September 2024 In six glacial llyns high on the western side of the Cambrian Mountains begins what has often been described as the longest river entirely in Wales. From Llyn Teifi, the Afon Teifi flows in a westerly direction, past the remains of the...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Aug 29, 2024 | River of the Month
Afon Irfon Follow August 2024 On 11 December 1282 near Cilmeri in mid Wales, a soldier serving Edward I ran a Welsh combatant through with his lance. At the time Stephen de Frankton was unaware that the person he had just fatally injured was Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jun 28, 2024 | River of the Month
Rhondda Follow June 2024 From the high plateau of Blaenau Morgannwg in Glamorgan, the two deep and steep-sided glacial valleys drop sharply to the south east in the direction of Wales’s capital, Cardiff. Within them flow two of the South Wales’s familiar rivers,...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | May 29, 2024 | River of the Month
Afon Gwenfro Follow May 2024 Awarded city status in 2022, Wrexham in North Wales is known for many things: Wales’s fourth largest city; the first place in the UK to brew lager; an age-old argument over whether its name is Welsh or English and as host to one of...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Apr 25, 2024 | River of the Month
The Afon Eden Follow April 2024 In the dark, peaty waters of a river in North Wales lives a creature that is said to be one of the reasons why the Romans first came to our shores. In the second century AD, the historian Suetonius wrote that Julius Ceasar’s two...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Mar 27, 2024 | River of the Month
The Eastern And Western Cleddau Follow March 2024 At Picton Point in Pembrokeshire the tidal sections of two of West Wales’s best-known rivers come together to form the Daugleddau (or “two Cleddausâ€). Their 27km combined estuary is also known as Milford Haven....
