Wye Canoe: Canoeist Guide to the River Wye (Environment Agency Science Report)
Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The Star Inn, Talybont-on-Usk will be holding their first beer festival this weekend, the 17th & 18th October. The pub will also be celebrating their Pub of the Year 2009 award from Brecknock CAMRA. Real ales from local breweries such as Breconshire, Kingstone, Celt Experiance an Wye Valley will be available along with live music and food. Although the Star is a small, roadside inn, not too far...
Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Time for an afternoon beer, from one of my local breweries, Kingstone Brewery, Kingstone Gold, a deep golden 4.0% ale, brewed in Tintern, Monmouthshire. Quite a light and refreshing ale, good hoppy aroma and a smooth taste, leading to a bitter, moreish aftertaste. Both Fuggles and First Gold hops are used in this beer, brewed with spring water in the Wye Valley. The bottle label suggests matching it...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
LONDON.- Chepstow Museum has acquired an important 19th century watercolour of a view across the River Wye towards Chepstow, with the help of The Art Fund , the UK's leading independent art charity. View on the River Wye, Looking towards Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire (1844), is by influential Romantic artist John Martin (1789–1854). The Art Fund, which is funded by its 80,000 members and donations,...
Carla Nayland Historical Fiction (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
In the comments thread on the post on seventh-century Chester , the discussion turned to the medieval longbow. I said I thought archery was especially associated with south Wales and that I hadn’t got the reference to hand but would post it when I found it. Well, I have now found the reference I was thinking of. It comes from the Description of Wales , written in the 1190s by Gerald of Wales...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/07/2009
When Kate Humble, presenter of the BBC’s Springwatch and Autumnwatch, moved to a hilltop stone farmhouse in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, two years ago, she was determined to make the garden as wildlife-friendly as possible.
News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The discovery of a sword stud beneath shops in Monmouth, Wales, could be evidence of an Anglo-Saxon period settlement, which might rewrite Welsh history. According to a report in Western Mail, at barely a centimetre across and almost unrecognisable after centuries underground, the stud could shed light on an almost unknown era of Welsh history. Hardly anything is known about the Anglo-Saxon period...
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