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(Hughes, H. 1998. An Uprooted Community, Llandysul: Gomer)
"find a ‘way of telling’ about it which has personal and communal currency" (Pearson 1998: 41)
‘It is not down on any map, true places never are.’ (Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
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Now the site of a Ministry of Defence training site (SENTA), until 1940 the area was occupied by a community of farmers and their families. To create SENTA 54 homes were vacated and 219 people were obliged to leave. At the same time a primary school, a church, and the Drovers Arms inn were closed. See Herbert Hughes (1998). An Uprooted Community: A History of Epynt, Cardiff: Gomer Press.
It's also a place for holiday cottages
More information from Army Training Estate [link]
Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA) covers an area of approximately 12,400 hectares of freehold land, and 2,500 hectares of land leased from Forest Enterprise. The Training Area was acquired by the Ministry of Defence in 1939 and is currently a major Field Firing Area for the infantry and artillery. There is an Impact Area where all live firing takes place, along with an extensive Dry Training Area available for use by light Brigades on exercise. While Sennybridge Camp is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, the actual Training Area is not and lies to the north of the National Park. The majority of SENTA is situated on the Mynydd Epynt, a wild plateau covered largely by blanket bog and grass, but intersected by several stream valleys containing woodland and meadows. Three Sites of Special Scientific Interest lie within SENTA, two of which are proposed Special Areas of Conservation. There are approximately 1,500 hectares of woodland on the Training Area, both commercially grown softwoods and ancient semi-natural woodland. The area is also important for its archaeology, with medieval agricultural systems still evident in the landscape. Grazing of sheep under communal grazing and letting licences forms the current use. Also of interest are murals painted by Italian prisoners of war; and the ‘Alpine village’ testing area.
OS Landranger Sheet 160 (Brecon Beacons) 1:50,000
OS Explorer Sheet 188 (Builth Wells / Llandfair-ym-Muallt) 1:25,000
Starting Grid Reference: GR 993 437
The working weekend is organised and convened by the University of Wales Aberystwyth partners (Prof Mike Pearson and Heike Roms)
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EPYNT EXERCISES_4.doc