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THE HISTORY OF TRELYSTAN
Remember the July 2016 newsletter? Please see Doreen’s appeal below
and have a final search for any photos, or mementoes for the history.
“We are having a final push to complete the Trelystan history.
There has to be an end to research at some point and we must get
it into print before I become too doddery and senile. If I could make
a final plea to the readers of the Leighton Newsletter for old photos
relevant to Trelystan I would be very grateful. It is a scattered and thinly
populated township so there are very few people who may have old photos or maps of the area or
of functions like the church fete, harvest festivals hence the lack of materials but it’s worth trying
again. We had a very interesting chat with Len Bennett from Brockton recently. He lived at Bank
House, Trelystan and recalled some wonderful farming memories which I recorded. These are like
gold dust and increasingly difficult to find. Thank you, Doreen Bowen”
The Trelystan History Project
Initially the Trelystan History project was no more than known as the Chapelry of Wolstanmind (and variations
a good idea, a vague intention mulled over on a wet of this). The name Trelystan occurred infrequently until
dreary afternoon, until a chance meeting with the Vicar, recently. There was a Holy Well in the township, now
Rev. Robert Leach, while the church was being long forgotten and a Primitive Methodist church which
renovated, provided a new focus and motivation. This flourished within living memory. There are several
was the appropriate time to update the church history medieval documents describing leases and indentures
leaflet written by Betty Mulroy some years ago, Robert naming people, farms and fields as well as details from
suggested. Leighton Vestry book of the great renovation of the
’Let‘s do it’ we thought and got cracking. But one train church in the 19C.which involved the whole community.
of investigation led to another and another until the We’ve reached the end of the research which inevitably
whole project covered not just the church but the is constrained by our own academic limitations leaving
township of Trelystan as it was from the days of the questions unsolved and documents unread, but 40,000
Saxon Hundreds to the 19C.and beyond. words are in the bag along with maps and memories
Over at least three years there have been occasional treks recounted by well-known local personalities. But if there
to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, visits are any family photos pre 1950 you may wish to include,
to Llandrindod Archives and Shrewsbury Archives, which are relevant to Trelystan do let us know. The plan
many mornings spent in Powysland Library in is to do a ‘book’ through internet self-publication using
Welshpool as well as hours spent searching the sources the money we still have from the sales of the Marton
on the internet. Now at last it is nearly complete. Book and then sell the Trelystan book at a cost covering
There have been surprises. Trelystan township has a price. Doreen Bowen 01938 580778 and Felicity Bevan
very different history to its neighbour Marton. For 01938 580116.
centuries Trelystan, Rhos Goch and Leighton were
The Leighton Home Farm Buildings will be
open, by appointment, for public viewing on
Saturday 30th September and Sunday
1st October as detailed below:
The tours will take place 11am and 2pm on
both days. Booking is essential.
Please phone Steve Burgess on 01547 530 835.
There is a maximum of 40 places on each tour.
Please note that the site is a working Stud Farm
and Health and Safety of people and animals is
paramount.
The Landmark Trust will be opening the Poultry House on the same weekend between 10am and 4pm.
THE HISTORY OF TRELYSTAN
Remember the July 2016 newsletter? Please see Doreen’s appeal below
and have a final search for any photos, or mementoes for the history.
“We are having a final push to complete the Trelystan history.
There has to be an end to research at some point and we must get
it into print before I become too doddery and senile. If I could make
a final plea to the readers of the Leighton Newsletter for old photos
relevant to Trelystan I would be very grateful. It is a scattered and thinly
populated township so there are very few people who may have old photos or maps of the area or
of functions like the church fete, harvest festivals hence the lack of materials but it’s worth trying
again. We had a very interesting chat with Len Bennett from Brockton recently. He lived at Bank
House, Trelystan and recalled some wonderful farming memories which I recorded. These are like
gold dust and increasingly difficult to find. Thank you, Doreen Bowen”
The Trelystan History Project
Initially the Trelystan History project was no more than known as the Chapelry of Wolstanmind (and variations
a good idea, a vague intention mulled over on a wet of this). The name Trelystan occurred infrequently until
dreary afternoon, until a chance meeting with the Vicar, recently. There was a Holy Well in the township, now
Rev. Robert Leach, while the church was being long forgotten and a Primitive Methodist church which
renovated, provided a new focus and motivation. This flourished within living memory. There are several
was the appropriate time to update the church history medieval documents describing leases and indentures
leaflet written by Betty Mulroy some years ago, Robert naming people, farms and fields as well as details from
suggested. Leighton Vestry book of the great renovation of the
’Let‘s do it’ we thought and got cracking. But one train church in the 19C.which involved the whole community.
of investigation led to another and another until the We’ve reached the end of the research which inevitably
whole project covered not just the church but the is constrained by our own academic limitations leaving
township of Trelystan as it was from the days of the questions unsolved and documents unread, but 40,000
Saxon Hundreds to the 19C.and beyond. words are in the bag along with maps and memories
Over at least three years there have been occasional treks recounted by well-known local personalities. But if there
to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, visits are any family photos pre 1950 you may wish to include,
to Llandrindod Archives and Shrewsbury Archives, which are relevant to Trelystan do let us know. The plan
many mornings spent in Powysland Library in is to do a ‘book’ through internet self-publication using
Welshpool as well as hours spent searching the sources the money we still have from the sales of the Marton
on the internet. Now at last it is nearly complete. Book and then sell the Trelystan book at a cost covering
There have been surprises. Trelystan township has a price. Doreen Bowen 01938 580778 and Felicity Bevan
very different history to its neighbour Marton. For 01938 580116.
centuries Trelystan, Rhos Goch and Leighton were
The Leighton Home Farm Buildings will be
open, by appointment, for public viewing on
Saturday 30th September and Sunday
1st October as detailed below:
The tours will take place 11am and 2pm on
both days. Booking is essential.
Please phone Steve Burgess on 01547 530 835.
There is a maximum of 40 places on each tour.
Please note that the site is a working Stud Farm
and Health and Safety of people and animals is
paramount.
The Landmark Trust will be opening the Poultry House on the same weekend between 10am and 4pm.
