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TYNDDOL
GRID REFERENCE: SN 765676
AREA IN HECTARES: 19.2
Historic Background
In the Medieval Period this area formed part of Strata
Florida Abbey’s Mefenydd Grange. At the Dissolution the Earl of
Essex was granted numerous abbey lands, the greater portion of which was
purchased by the Crosswood estate in 1630, including land close to this
area. The history of this small block of land is uncertain, though its
upland nature may have ensured that it was considered unenclosed Crown
land. It came to the interest of the Crosswood estate in the early 19th
century when a large area, including this unit, was earmarked for Parliamentary
Enclosure, and surveyed in 1815 (NLW Crosswood 347) for that purpose.
The enclosure act was never awarded. By the tithe survey (Gwnnws Tithe
Map and Apportionment, 1847) the area of Tynddol farm is shown as small
enclosures set amongst larger enclosures.
Description and essential historic landscape
components
This is a small area of upland enclosure centred on
the farm of Tynddol, between 300m and 370m. It is sandwiched between large
enclosures of rough grazing to the west and unenclosed upland to the east.
Enclosures are small and irregular and divided by earth banks topped with
wire fences. There are no hedges. The farm is stone-built with a slate
roof, and surrounded by very extensive modern farm buildings. Most of
the enclosures consist of improved pasture, with patches of rougher grazing.
There are no recorded archaeological sites in the area.
The border of this area is well defined with unenclosed
upland to the east, and large enclosures of rough grazing to the west,
north and south.
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