Victorian maps
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Llanfair
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| Llanllugan in 1836 | ||
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The map below is an enlarged section
of an Ordnance Survey map made at
a scale of 1 inch = 1 mile in 1836. Although it is not very detailed it
does give us an idea of the area in the early Victorian period. |
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| The shading shows this to be an area of upland farms, and earning a living on this landscape must have been hard in Victorian times. Most of the inhabitants would have been involved in farming in some way. | ||
| Notice that the map shows a mill and walkmill using the power of the river and also Felin isaf near the church. The walkmill will have been a fulling mill where fullers earth is pounded into woven cloth to clean it and tighten up the weave, and the other mills must have provided a useful service grinding local grain into flour. | ||
| The oval enclosure in the bottom right hand corner (marked Gaer) shows us that 2000 years before Victorian times people were farming and defending these hills. | ||
| Compare with Llanllugan in 1902 |