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Mad as a March hare?

by Andrew Steele March 08, 2019

In the early 1960’s in Wiltshire a phenomenon of nature occurred - on a chalky stream the mute swan population rocketed to over 60 in a small dis...

by Andrew Steele February 04, 2019

Snowdrops are no native to our land but were first imported in the middle ages and the Crimean War soldiers brought bulbs back with them in a sec...

by Andrew Steele January 18, 2019

The 1610 map of the area shows Treflach as being quite heavily forested in fact a court case - Hillditch vs Donne - show just how many trees...

by Andrew Steele December 05, 2018

Much has been written about the holly and the ivy. In Treflach the best hedges are holly but when they are allowed to grow into trees their b...

by Andrew Steele December 05, 2018

Much has been written about the holly and the ivy. In Treflach the best hedges are holly but when they are allowed to grow into trees their b...

by Andrew Steele October 31, 2018

Go onto any bronze age archeological dig and people will always comment on how cold, open and exposed it is especially in winter; how did they co...

by Andrew Steele September 30, 2018

The lanes and byeways of Treflach are pre historic indented and sunken into the landscape worn away by millenia of travel. To the passerby ...

by Andrew Steele August 27, 2018

At the top of Treflach Valley is Offas Dyke built in AD785. A welsh man found on the England side of the border could have his right hand chopped...

by Andrew Steele June 30, 2018

The fields of Treflach are small compared to the land mainly due to the topography of the area and the relative late reclamation from the old fore...

by Andrew Steele May 31, 2018

Treflach gets its name from the old welsh Tref-township iach-healthy and the reason for that was the many springs that ooze out of the fractur...

by Andrew Steele May 08, 2018

If you were to walk across Shropshire you would come across more different type of rock and soil than if you were to walk the whole of Russia due ...

by Andrew Steele March 28, 2018

It may be April showers that bring forth May flowers, but it is the April sun that brings the swallows. Catching first sight of these is a cou...