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Updated: May 28, 2025
The name Caerfili is said to signify the Castle of Haste, and to have been bestowed on the pile because it was built in a hurry. Caerfili, however, was never built in a hurry, as the remains show. Moreover, the Welsh word for haste is not fil but ffrwst. Fil means a scudding or darting through the air, which can have nothing to do with the building of a castle.
Start for Caerfili Johanna Colgan Alms-Giving The Monstrous Female The Evil Prayer The Next Day The Aifrionn Unclean Spirits Expectation Wreaking Vengeance A decent Alms. I LEFT Merthyr about twelve o'clock for Caerfili. My course lay along the valley to the south-east.
Caerfili signifies Philip's City, and was called so after one Philip a saint. It no more means the castle of haste than Tintagel in Cornwall signifies the castle of guile, as the learned have said it does, for Tintagel simply means the house in the gill of the hill, a term admirably descriptive of the situation of the building.
I started from Caerfili at eleven for Newport, distant about seventeen miles. Passing through a toll-gate I ascended an acclivity, from the top of which I obtained a full view of the castle, looking stern, dark and majestic.
"When you come to the Quakers' Yard, which is a little way further on, you will be seven miles from Caerfili." "What is the Quakers' Yard?" "A place where the people called Quakers bury their dead." "Is there a village near it? "There is, and the village is called by the same name." "Are there any Quakers in it?" "Not one, nor in the neighbourhood, but there are some, I believe, in Cardiff."
The whole together formed an exquisite picture, in which there was much sublimity, much still quiet life, and not a little of fantastic fairy loveliness. The sun was hastening towards the west as I passed a little cascade on the left, the waters of which, after running under the road, tumbled down a gully into the river. Shortly afterwards meeting a man I asked him how far it was to Caerfili.
I reached Caerfili at about seven o'clock, and went to the "Boar's Head," near the ruins of a stupendous castle, on which the beams of the moon were falling. Caerfili Castle Sir Charles The Waiter Inkerman. I SLEPT well during the night. In the morning after breakfast I went to see the castle, over which I was conducted by a woman who was intrusted with its care.
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