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Monday 8 September 2003 Pix Of The Day: The Little England Beyond Wales CREDITS: © Peter Turner/MaccCAM.co.uk MAP: Fishguard, St. David's and Haverfordwest When clicked, thumbnails popup enlarged versions of the images. ![]() ![]() Many of the tides of conquest, particularly the last one in 1066 by second generation Norsemen pretending they were French, came across the waters to the south and east, driving the existing occupants to the mountains of the north and west. The Gaels, who sailed round the north capes to invade from the north and west, are one of the notable exceptions to this generalization. Much of Edward's reign was spent dealing with problems in Wales, and in Scotland. He died on an expedition against the Scots, camped on a bleak marsh we visited many times on bicycles when I was young. Peter Turner's MaccCAM.co.uk web site is one of our regular haunts: if you check out the site contents page, you too may find something of interest. We chose Peter's expedition from his home town of Macclesfield, southwestward to Pembroke, a region and peninsula of southwest Wales still referred to (somewhat disparagingly by people with a strong Welsh identity), as 'Little England'. They have long memories in the fringes: the name comes from the influx of Flemish settlers who were given safe passage by Edward I to settle around the town that is now Haverfordwest. They had become refugees after displacement from their own lands by an incursion of the sea. Edward was not being altruistic, but wanted the ethnic diversity created by the incoming Flemish settlers to diminish the strength of local resistance to English rule. Peter's three part photo tour weekend started Dollgellau in the north, in a different region named Gwynedd, then proceeded south through Fishguard to St. David's. A disused railway station, cottages, mountains, a cathedral, an ancient burial site with the chamber stones remaining as menhirs, an Iron/Bronze Age hill fort, a cannon, boats in harbour, and even a dragon: there can be little that Peter did not photograph on his trip! An excellent site that we heartily recommend. On This Day In 2002: Brodsworth Hall - Sun 8 Sep 2002
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