His rebuilding of the original mansion at the estate included an extension by the celebrated architect John Nash, schemes for road-making and tree-planting on a grand scale, the running of a printing press and the acquisition of a library collection and innumerable exquisite furnishings. 'We live,' said Thomas Johnes of Hafod, 'like peacocks in paradise.'.
Gomer site intro "This is a classic biography of an eighteenth-century house and of the man who tamed the wild hills of west Wales to create a Romantic idyll there. Faber & Faber, 1960.The classic account of the life of Thomas Johnes and the buildings of his estate at Hafod. Hideįor Thomas Johnes, see entry in The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. Johnes, was originally the residence of a branch of the Herbert family, who, embarking in the mining adventures of the neighbourhood, built a house here, which, from the nature of the ground and the badness of the roads, being inaccessible except during the summer, obtained the appellation of " Havôd " signifying a summer residence." This place derives the latter of these names from its relative situation in the parish, and the former from the erection of a church, in 1803, by the late Thomas Johnes, Esq., on the site of a former edifice originally built here in 1620 by the Herberts of Havôd, for the convenience of the family, and the accommodation of the miners employed in the adjoining district of Cwm Ystwith.
E.) from Aberystwith, containing 1027 inhabitants. " EGLWYS - NEWYDD, or LLANVIHANGELY CREIDDYN-UCHÂV, a chapelry in the parish of LLANVIHANGELY CREIDDYN, hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES,14 miles (S.
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