History on the buses in Monmouthshire - and beyond.

A cherry-picking guide to castles, Roman remains and other places of historic interest - plus modern CAKE! - available on bus routes in Monmouthshire. We'll also go abroad into England - this is a microadventure blog! You'll travel back in time with thrilling and quirky facts from past centuries, tit-bits of history to ponder on as you ride. (For link to current bus timetables please scroll right down to the bottom of the page)

Thursday, 24 May 2018

14 crosses at St Teilo's Church

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   As water is the natural environment for a fish, so I am at home on a bus but ... When a friend offered to take me for a fascinating vis...
Monday, 30 April 2018

Llangybi Castle: huge and ruinous

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Photo courtesy of Joan Bennet    Llangybi Castle had the largest inner courtyard of any castle in England and Wales - and possibly in E...
Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Longtown Castle - a little known treasure

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   My loyal readers (love you all!) know that I visit castles only by bus except when some kind person offers to drive me and buys me CAKE...
Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Sir John Oldcastle: fact and fiction

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(I have a real problem with finding out the copyright of images and have no wish to be imprisoned without CAKE for illegally using one - s...
Thursday, 1 March 2018

Local Monmouthshire lad goes to France - what did Henry V take with him?

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On 11th August 1415 Henry V and his army sailed for France and the rest - as they say - is history. In Shakespeare's play he nips over t...
Monday, 29 January 2018

Licence to Crenellate - Medieval planning permission

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  If you have lain awake at night for weeks on end waiting for planning permission for a new extension to your house, you might be in the ...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

Davy Gam: hero or traitor?

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If the name Davy Gam seems vaguely familiar to you, it may be because you actually concentrated during the part of Shakespeare's Hen...
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I was born in Ormskirk (Lancashire) before the outbreak of WWII and have moved via Oxford, Aberystwyth and London to my present home in Monmouthshire where I am an established poet.
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