by Catrin | Jul 4, 2025 | News
A Brief Overview of the Geology of the Gelligaer and Merthyr Common At the summer’s zenith, there is nowhere more beautiful than the Gelligaer and Merthyr Common. It’s a moorland that lies at the north end of the South Wales Coalfields. Looking across the landscape,...
by Catrin | Jun 3, 2025 | News
Rhos Las Pond (Rhaslas on the OS map). Beautiful scenes near the lost Pantywaun and Blaen Carno area. In June 1831, in the town of Merthyr, just beyond the Cefn Merthyr ridge, one of the biggest uprisings by workers against the ironmasters and the capitalist class...
by Catrin | May 5, 2025 | News
May is here with summer fast approaching. The wildlife of the Common is flourishing and in full colour: the yellow of the gorse, the fresh green of the new grasses and rushes, the frothing and unfurling of pinks and lilacs, burgundy too in the hedgerows. The sound of...
by Catrin | Apr 4, 2025 | News
The Skylark The Skylark (Yr Ehedydd) Daring hours belonging to the larkwhirling high from his home each day,early riser, bubbling golden on a post,poet of the heavens, April’s guardian.by Dafydd ap Gwilym Towards the end of April, as the rushes are busily...
by Catrin | Mar 6, 2025 | News
Spring has arrived! And hopefully it will feel even more like spring by the end of the month. Saturday the 1st of March is, of course, Saint David’s Day in Wales: a day that for centuries has celebrated Wales and all things Welsh. Our national anthem is an important...
