Container is a clear 1.1 ltr clip lock container with plenty of space for TB and geoswag. Name and Number on the outside.
Nearby village is Llanafan.
LLANAVAN (LLAN-AVAN), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 8 miles (S. E.) from Aberystwith, containing 384 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name from the dedication of its church to St. Avan, is pleasantly situated on the river Ystwith, which at this place forms a fine bold curve, and is enriched on both its banks with pleasingly varied and highly picturesque scenery : a neat modern stone bridge has been erected over this river. Within the parish is Cross Wood, the seat of the Earl of Lisburne, a neat mansion, pleasantly situated in grounds which are tastefully laid out.
[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]
Also nearby is the Trawsgoed Estate. Trawsgoed Estate located eight miles (13 km) east of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales has been in the possession of the Vaughan family since the year 1200. The family are descended from Collwyn ap Tangno, founder of the fifth noble tribe of North Wales, Lord of Eifionydd, Ardudwy, and part of Llŷn, who had his residence on the site of Harlech Castle.
The land falls within the ancient parish of Llanafan,in the upper division of the hundred of Ilar. In Wales an ancient parish was a village or group of villages or hamlets and the adjacent lands. Originally they held ecclesiastical functions, but from the sixteenth century they also acquired civil roles. The parish may have been established as an ecclesiastical parish. Originally a medieval administrative unit, after 1597 ecclesiastical units were separated from civil parishes to serve the ecclesiastical needs of the local community.The Trawsgoed estate extended over 22 Cardiganshire parishes, including Llanafan.
The MetOffice operates a Weather Station at Trawscoed, providing data for surrounding area.
The GC is hidden just outside the boundary of a ROC (Royal Observer Corps) post. Please dont enter through the gate to view the ROC. This is private land.
The ROC built 1563 underground monitoring posts. With the start of the cold war and the increasing threat of nuclear attack in the 1950's, the ROC was given the added responsibility of reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out which necessitated the construction of 1563 underground monitoring posts throughout Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
To give fall-out protection, the new ‘monitoring rooms’ would be constructed underground, usually at the same location as the aircraft monitoring post which usually took the form of a pre-cast concrete (Orlit) or brick room often raised a few feet off the ground to aid visibility.
For more information visit on the ROC posts in general visit: (visit link)
For more information on Crosswood ROC itself: (visit link)
I hope you enjoy the GZ.
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