YSTRAD OWEN, Clyne, Neath Port Talbot 2019
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Notes on YSTRAD OWEN, Clyne, Neath Port Talbot 2019
Not a long walk but steep and I was a little stiff after a mornings walking to another house (actually found in process of restoration). Ystrad Owen is perched side of a hill, perhaps not as long ruinous as it makes one believe. The Scot’s Pine can be seen as the path ascends and the ruins are separated by the track. Both house and outbuildings are roofless and much ruinous but there’s a good sense of place here; a view, an openness which can be sheltered from, if need be, by this morning’s breeze.
It was from these ruins two other properties could be spied and which led to my next walk, of Penybanc, a strange and alluring place.
Not a long walk but steep and I was a little stiff after a mornings walking to another house (actually found in process of restoration). Ystrad Owen is perched side of a hill, perhaps not as long ruinous as it makes one believe. The Scot’s Pine can be seen as the path ascends and the ruins are separated by the track. Both house and outbuildings are roofless and much ruinous but there’s a good sense of place here; a view, an openness which can be sheltered from, if need be, by this morning’s breeze.
It was from these ruins two other properties could be spied and which led to my next walk, of Penybanc, a strange and alluring place.
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