The idea of this cache is to try and bring together all the
local information of Borth modern and old and keep updating this
listing. I have some information about it here, some old maps, and
a quote in the Short Description from a 18c Poet
This is an image of a historical map drawn in the 18c of Borth
when little was there.
Borth is a seaside village on the coast between Aberystwyth to
the south and Aberdyfi to the north. Borth lies along the Cardigan
Bay coast in Ceredigion, West Wales. It lies 7 miles south from
Aberystwyth and 48 miles north from Cardigan. Formerly a fishing
village, Borth has since become a popular seaside resort, thanks to
its stretch of beautiful golden stone. Borth's award-winning beach
is of a particularly shallow gradient and because of its shallow
waters, is particularly popular with sailboard enthusiasts and
families with younger children. It is currently being improved and
the sea defenses and some areas are restricted (Summer 2011).
It attracts many visitors each year for its swimming,
windsailing, fishing, sailing, surfing and amusements for the
children. To its north and east Borth is surrounded by protected
sites; a massive peat bog - Cors Goch Fochno - and the magnificent
sand dune system of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve at
Ynyslas.
Walkers on the Ceredigion Coastal Path will appreciate Borth as
the northern terminus of the Path. But soon walkers will have the
opportunity to head in a northerly direction around the coast of
the Snowdonia National Park as part of the soon to be completed
Wales Coastal Path. Borth is also the western terminus of one of
Ceredigion's other paths climbing high into the Cambrian Mountains
and linking to the Forestry Commission Wales Visitor and Red Kite
Feeding Centre at Nant Yr Arian, and Devil's Bridge. There is free
parking with disabled spaces and a slipway, giving easy access to
the beach.
The cache is in a well paved, area and the cache is at a height
and position that are suitable to a disabled geocacher so it has
been given a terrain rating of 1.
| 14 AD |
Giraldus tells us, referring evidently to these "lands," that
Gruffydd "held under the king one comot or a fourth part of the
cantred of Caeo,"—meaning Conwil Caio. But he was not
satisfied with this narrow territory, and vassalage. The people of
Ceredigion, AD 14, invested him with the dignity of prince of their
country. Henry formally divested him of all his inheritance in
Dinefawr and Dyfed, whereupon he went to the North to seek
aid. |
| 400 AD |
This little kingdom of Ceredigion was so called from Ceredig
one of the sons of a famous leader Cunedda Wledig who with their
father crossed the Irish Sea from INIanaw Goddodin in the north
(supposed to be in southern Scotland) and occupied Wales from the
R. Dee to the R. Teivi and the R. Gwaun. This occurred about AD
400. Ceredigion stands for Caraticiana the land of the descendants
or followers of Ceredig. |
| 515 AD |
This is believed to be Sandde or Sant, prince of Powys and the
son of King Ceredig, the founder of Ceredigion.His mother is
thought to be Non, daughter of a Chieftain of Menevia whose Kingdom
included what is now the town of St David's in West Wales. His
mother is said to have given birth on a cliff top in the middle of
a violent storm. The exact year of his birth is unknown, with
estimates ranging from 462 to 515 AD. |
| Jul 1094 AD |
In the north, Gruffudd ap Cynan and Cadwgan ap Bleddyn of Powys
destroyed the Norman castles in Gwynedd and slaughtered a relief
expedition. In the south, helped by the death of Roger of
Montgomery in July 1094, the new castles in Ceredigion and Dyfed,
with the exception of Pembroke, were destroyed in risings. The
Normans ultimately held on to most of the coastal lowlands of south
Wales but their control of Gwynedd was never fully restored, the
greatest reverse they ever made - From "The struggle for
mastery" |
| 1114 AD |
(Royal Tribes.) Giraldus tells us, referring evidently to these
"lands," that Gruffydd "held under the king one comot or a fourth
part of the cantred of Caeo, " meaning Conwil Caio. But he was not
satisfied with this narrow territory, and vassalage. The people of
Ceredigion, AD 1114, invested him with the dignity of prince of
their country. Henry formally divested him of all his inheritance
in Dinefawr and Dyfed, Avhereupon he went to the North to seek
aid. |
| 1136 AD |
Cadwaladr first appears in the historical record in 1136, when
following the killing of the lord of Ceredigion, Richard Fitz
Gilbert de Clare, he accompanied his brother Owain Gwynedd in an
invasion of Ceredigion. They captured five castles in the north of
Ceredigion then later in the year launched a second invasion,
inflicting a heavy defeat on the Normans at the Battle of Crug
Mawr, just outside Cardigan. |
| 1156 AD |
Excerpt: Aberdyfi Castle is a castle located near Glandyfi ,
Ceredigion , in Mid Wales . All that now remains is the motte ,
which is referred to as Domen Las ( meaning "green mound" in Welsh
). It was founded by the Lord Rhys, Rhys ap Gruffydd in 1156, in
response to a threat to his lands from the north from Owain Gwynedd
, who had assembled an army to march on Ceredigion . Rhys "raised a
ditch to give battle", according to Brut y Tywysogion. |
| 1282 |
History of the United Kingdom. In 1282, King Edward I
(1272-1307) finally conquered the last remaining native Welsh
principalities in north and west Wales (an area roughly
corresponding to the present day counties of Anglesey,
Caernarfonshire, Merionethshire. |