Category: Danescourt
Penrhys Pilgrimage Way midsummer storytelling
The Penrhys Pilgrimage Way is a 21 mile walk which follows public rights of way from Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff to Penrhys in the Rhondda. It’s a beautiful walk, starting at the Cathedral, following Radyr Woods, up to Radyr Heights, crossing the M4 footbridge to Pentyrch, Creigiau, Groesfaen and Llantrisant (which is as far as I’ve been able to walk so far). It then continues to Penrhys via Tonyrefail.
Going on a pilgrimage was popular in Wales from the fifth and six centuries. St David and St Teilo were the rock stars of that time. In south east Wales, the most important pilgrimage site at that time was the shrine of St Teilo in Llandaff Cathedral. By the fifteenth century, the statue of the Virgin and Child, and nearby holy well, at Penrhys in the Rhondda, was a really popular pilgrimage site, controlled by the Cistercian Abbey of Llantarnam. This 21-mile walk has been rebooted for the 21st century by a new local charity.
The route of the Penrhys Pilgrimage Way you can walk today was opened just before the COVID-19 lockdown, which has made waymarking and promotion challenging. Local storytellers, led by Steve Killick and Helen Lloyd Jones, have come together to hold an online storytelling event on 24 June 2020 to raise awareness of the walk and to raise funds.
Storytellers Michael Harvey, Cath Little, Megan Lloyd, Angharad Wynne and Francis Maxey will be on Zoom on the evening of 24 June 2020 to tell tales of the Penrhys Pilgrimage Way and the local area.
You can email ppwp2020 (at) gmail.com to be sent a link or check the Facebook page in the week leading up to the event for the Zoom link and details. There’s also a Crowdfunding page for donations to the Penrhys Pilgrimage Way. You don’t have to donate to attend the online storytelling event, but the organisers hope you will because the charity lacks the ready cash to support maintenance of the route’s website and to set up wellbeing and educational projects run by local communities along the route.
Details: Midsummer storytelling 20:00-21:00 24 June 2020 Facebook link.
Syria fundraiser in Danescourt Llandaff
There’s a UNICEF fundraiser for Syrian children at St John’s Church Hall Danescoyrt CF5 2 SH FROM 1-5pm Sat 6 April 2019. Details on the poster.
Radyr Court Road planning appeal inspector site visit
Many readers will be aware of the plans to build new homes on the green land of Radyr Court Road by Nabatean Ltd.
The aptly-named Simon Field of the Save Radyr Court Road group has written to say that the Planning Inspector appointed to make the final decision will visit the site at 2pm on Thursday 12th June 2014. He invites residents who oppose the plans to meet him at 2pm on the same day at the bottom of Spooky Lane at the end of Radyr Court Road.
Simon says that “counsel for the owners of the land emphasised that the path that runs from the end of Radyr Court Road (by the gates across ‘Spooky Lane’) across the land towards Radyr Woods is not a right of way, and as it is entirely privately owned, it can be closed at any time (but) we believe that continuous open access for the length of that path has existed for a very long time – certainly more than 20 years.”
If you want to go along to the appeal inspector’s site visit, go to the bottom of Spooky Lane at the end of Radyr Court Road at 2pm on Thursday 12th June 2014.
Cross-posted on RadyrPost.
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