![Craig Ystradmeurig](webphotos/craigystradmeurig.jpg)
CRAIG YSTRADMEURIG
GRID REFERENCE: SN 705684
AREA IN HECTARES: 63.0
Historic Background
In the Medieval Period this area probably lay within
Strata Florida Abbey’s Mefenydd Grange. On the Dissolution it is
likely that its upland nature ensured that it was considered Crown land.
Formerly this unenclosed land would have been much more extensive, and
it would have linked with an area to the northeast, but the creation of
large enclosures neighbouring this area in the 19th century essentially
isolated it (Spytty Ystrad Meurig Tithe Map and Apportionment, 1843).
![Craig Ystradmeurig](webphotos/craigystradmeurig2.jpg)
Description and essential historic landscape
components
A small block of craggy upland between 200m and 340m.
Included in this area is the west-facing cliff-face of Craig Ystradmeurig.
The area is essentially unenclosed, though some broken down dry-stone
walls are present and wire fences divide it into very large fields. Improved
grazing is present, particularly on the summits, but the steep craggy
slopes are covered with rough pasture.
Recorded archaeology consists of a substantial Iron Age
hillfort and a Bronze Age round barrow.
This area is well defined to the south, west and north
where it meets areas characterised by field systems of small enclosures.
To the east it fades into a block of large enclosures of improved pasture.
![Craig Ystradmeurig map](webphotos/craigystradmeurigmap.jpg)
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