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Oct 9, 2020 21 tweets 17 min read
1/20 Hello everyone. This thread is going to talk about a small community in West Wales (where I live), and efforts to reclaim various elements of its landscape, including a complex social history and rich archaeology which are usually hidden from view #HiddenLandscapes View of St Sulien’s Church in 2009, looking south-east tow 2/20 Silian is a dispersed rural community near Lampeter in West Wales. It is within the top 20% of Wales’ most deprived areas in terms of access to services, and has no local amenities. There is nowhere for the community to meet and little social interaction #HiddenLandscapes Location maps, showing location in Wales and parish boundaryAerial photograph of central Silian, showing church, school,Looking towards the former smithy (left), pub (middle) & chu