Old Place

Old Place

by | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorised

This building has mistakenly been called Llantwit Castle. It is in fact the ruin of an Elizabethan manor house with two wings enclosing a paved courtyard. It was built in 1596 by Griffith Williams for his daughter and her husband Edmund Vann. They represented the...
Town History

Town History

by | May 26, 2017 | Uncategorised

Llantwit Major (in Welsh Llanilltud Fawr) is named as the site of the main church of Illtud, one of the founding Saints of the monastic settlements of the 5th century AD in Wales. Illtud came to this sheltered valley of Hodnant in the last decades of the 5th century....
Boverton Place

Boverton Place

by | May 26, 2017 | buildings

Queen’s Attorney to the Council of Wales and the Marches in the 1590’s. It remained in the hands of the family until the last heiress Jane Seys married Robert Jones of Fonmon at which time its fixtures and fittings were stripped out. Jones sold the estate but...