This was so lovely I went to the www.geograph.org.uk site and searched Trelawnyd and took a virtual tour of your village. I see that Gop Hill is named after Gop Farm? Or maybe the other way around. What's a Gop? And how can your country still be so beautiful even though folks have been there for a long time? I think you people have your priorities right. Or maybe realtors and real estate developers don't run the country. I love it.
It is so beautiful there. Did I hear correctly in that that was a burial mound? For locals from years ago? Are those pine trees? And look, there is another stone wall!
you live in a fabulous place! here in Canada if a building is 100 years old it is almost the oldest and is an historic landmark, i too am fascinated by who might be buried there - stay warm, peace
Jan and AJ Wikipedia says The Gop is a neolithic mound lying north of Trelawnyd in Flintshire, Wales. Oval in form, it is the second-largest such mound in Britain after Silbury Hill. Excavations have uncovered no burial chambers or other underground works. This may indicate that it was used as a look-out or hill fort; there is evidence that there was a considerable amount of stone on the top of hill. In the seventeenth century, its prominent position allowed a beacon to be placed there.
The mound lies on top of Gop Hill, a natural limestone outcrop, in the side of which are the Gop Caves.
Gop farm is named after the hill. There is a local legend that Boudicia, the famous female clan chief had one of her last battles at this spot
you are torturing us. :)
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ReplyDeleteThis was so lovely I went to the www.geograph.org.uk site and searched Trelawnyd and took a virtual tour of your village. I see that Gop Hill is named after Gop Farm? Or maybe the other way around. What's a Gop? And how can your country still be so beautiful even though folks have been there for a long time? I think you people have your priorities right. Or maybe realtors and real estate developers don't run the country. I love it.
ReplyDeleteIt is so beautiful there. Did I hear correctly in that that was a burial mound? For locals from years ago? Are those pine trees? And look, there is another stone wall!
ReplyDeleteyou live in a fabulous place! here in Canada if a building is 100 years old it is almost the oldest and is an historic landmark, i too am fascinated by who might be buried there - stay warm, peace
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ReplyDeleteWikipedia says
The Gop is a neolithic mound lying north of Trelawnyd in Flintshire, Wales. Oval in form, it is the second-largest such mound in Britain after Silbury Hill. Excavations have uncovered no burial chambers or other underground works. This may indicate that it was used as a look-out or hill fort; there is evidence that there was a considerable amount of stone on the top of hill. In the seventeenth century, its prominent position allowed a beacon to be placed there.
The mound lies on top of Gop Hill, a natural limestone outcrop, in the side of which are the Gop Caves.
Gop farm is named after the hill.
There is a local legend that Boudicia, the famous female clan chief had one of her last battles at this spot
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ReplyDeleteThis isnot quite correct as locals do say that burial chambers are present on the gop but are empty.
I also wanted to add that in the 19th century many people left the village to start new lives in the mid west USA and utah