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They are of every shape and size, from stately piles like Wigmore and Goodrich, to the smallest fortified farm, like Urishay Castle, a house half mansion, half fortress. Even the church towers of Herefordshire, with their walls seven or eight feet thick, such as that at Ewias Harold, look as if they were designed as strongholds in case of need.
He regulated the establishment of prebendaries and canons living under a rule. *Geoffrey de Clive*, A.D. 1115-1119. During the latter years of this episcopate, a question of jurisdiction over the districts of Ergyng and Ewias, which had begun in the previous century, was revived between the Bishop of Llandaff and the Bishops of Hereford and St. David’s.
*Robert de Bethune*, A.D. 1131-1148, had become prior of his monastery at his native place of Bethune, in French Flanders, and thence had gone to Llanthony, a priory in a glen of the Hatteral Hills in the disputed district of Ewias.
Here rises, just north of the town, the Sugar Loaf, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two feet high, and on the left hand the mass of old red sandstone known as the Blorenge, one thousand seven hundred and twenty feet high. A few miles up the tributary vale of Ewias, which discloses glorious scenery, are the ruins of Llanthony Priory.
This court is a characteristic Elizabethan mansion, standing in a beautiful garden almost smothered in foliage and running vines. About a mile up the valley is the pretty village of Ewias Harold, with its church on one sloping bank of the little river and its castle on the other. Within the church alongside the chancel there is a recumbent female figure holding a casket in its hands.
This was a Cistercian monastery founded by Robert of Ewias in the reign of Henry I. We are now in the heart of the Golden Valley, which seems to be excavated out of a plateau with long, terrace-like hills bounding it on either hand, their lower parts rich in verdure, while their summits are dark and generally bare.
Briard Castle Tintern Abbey The Wyncliff Wyntour's Leap Chepstow Castle The River Monnow The Golden Valley The Black Mountains Pontrilas Court Ewias Harold Abbey Dore The Scyrrid Vawr Wormridge Kilpeck Oldcastle Kentchurch Grosmont The Vale of Usk Abergavenny Llanthony Priory Walter Savage Landor Capel-y-Ffyn Newport Penarth Roads Cardiff The Rocking-Stone Llandaff Caerphilly Castle and its Leaning Tower Swansea The Mumbles Oystermouth Castle Neath Abbey Caermarthen Tenby Manorbeer Castle Golden Grove Pembroke Milford Haverfordwest Milford Haven Pictou Castle Carew Castle.
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