Tŷ Unnos: The One Night House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2023
Near the village of Llanycefn, in Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales, stands a small stone cottage. Legend has it that the cottage was built...
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The Longest Place Name in Europe
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2022
On the island of Anglesey off the north-west coast of Wales, just across Menai Strait, lies a small village with a big name: Llanfairpwllgw...
How Sin Eaters Saved The Dead & The Dying
Anonymous
May 25, 2022
In 18th and 19th century England and Scotland, sin eating was a profession. Beggars, destitute and those in want of a measly morsel of nutri...
Sarah Jacob: The Girl Who Starved to Death to Prove Herself
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 21, 2021
There have been quite a few cases where people claimed to have survived without food. These people call themselves “breatharians” for they p...
The Victorian Mail Order Business
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2021
In the beginning of the 19th century, a large Welsh town called Newtown on the River Severn became the center of the woolen industry. Like o...
Turnspit Dogs
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2020
Observe the scene above depicting the inside of an inn at Newcastle, Wales, in the late 19th century. Men and women are sitting around the...
The Murders Written in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2020
The Ardwell House East Lodge sits right on the edge of A716 that runs along the east coast of the Rhins of Galloway, in southern Scotland. L...
Ffordd Pen Llech: The World’s New Steepest Street
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2019
A sleepy little seaside community in northwest Wales will soon find itself swamped by tourists. Just a few days ago, the Guinness World Reco...
Offa’s Dyke: The 1,200-Years-Old Dyke Separating Wales From England
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
In south-west England, there runs a great earthwork from the mouth of River Dee near Chester, to the estuary of River Severn near Chepstow, ...
The British Quarry That Hid Van Gogh, da Vinci and Rembrandt
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2018
For four years, a disused slate quarry in a remote mountain in North Wales became home to some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces...
The Triple Bridge of Pontarfynach
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
About 15 km outside Aberystwyth, in Wales, is a small village named Pontarfynach, meaning “the bridge on the Mynach”. As the name suggest, t...
Mach Loop: The Valley of Fighter Jets
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 7, 2016
Nestled between the towns of Dolgellau and Machynlleth, in central Wales, is a series of grass covered valleys that is renowned the world ov...
The Gregynog Hall of Tregynon
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2016
The historic Gregynog Hall in the village of Tregynon, in Wales, UK, is a large country mansion whose brilliant black-and-white timber-frame...
The Marina Towers Observatory in Swansea is Shaped Like a Spaceship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
This peculiar shaped building resembling a spaceship on its launch pad is located at the end of the promenade in the Maritime Quarter of Swa...
Sultan The Pit Pony
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2014
Sultan the Pit Pony is a massive 200 metre raised-earth sculpture in Caerphilly, in South Wales. The sculpture is affectionately named “Sult...
The Guano Covered Island of Grassholm
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2014
Grassholm is a small uninhabited island, just 200 meters across, located 13 kilometers off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. Th...
