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Traditional smallholding in Welsh countryside
There used to be thousands of these in the local countryside. It’s hard to believe that large families would have been supported and brought up in tiny little cottages like these. This would have been a proper small farm. There are the remains of the dutch barn, and the concrete structures are the old milking stalls. At one point places like these had so little value that their owners would simply knock them down, and cart away the stone. About a quarter of a mile away there is a similar place, obviously the site of something, hard track, and trees all around, but with just a pile of building stone dumped to one side. Sad to see it so decayed, but the yard still has evidence of cattle passing through, and the cottage had power so was probably lived in till the 60’s or 70’s.
Most were bought up by neighbouring farmers who kept all the land, and sold the cottage to the incoming English with an acre or two, but this one has slipped through the net. The land around all seems connected so the nearest farm is probably the owner.
There used to be thousands of these in the local countryside. It’s hard to believe that large families would have been supported and brought up in tiny little cottages like these. This would have been a proper small farm. There are the remains of the dutch barn, and the concrete structures are the old milking stalls. At one point places like these had so little value that their owners would simply knock them down, and cart away the stone. About a quarter of a mile away there is a similar place, obviously the site of something, hard track, and trees all around, but with just a pile of building stone dumped to one side. Sad to see it so decayed, but the yard still has evidence of cattle passing through, and the cottage had power so was probably lived in till the 60’s or 70’s.
Most were bought up by neighbouring farmers who kept all the land, and sold the cottage to the incoming English with an acre or two, but this one has slipped through the net. The land around all seems connected so the nearest farm is probably the owner.
