This area of land was once part of the Nanteos Estate, the Powells of Nanteos owned over 31.000 acres at their peak of running the estate in the 1800s
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One of the Gamekeeper's of Nanteos lived in Bryn Du, which is located down this trackway. They had many gamekeeper on there massive esate, they played an important part of keeping the poachers at bay.