Visit of St Fagan's Museum

I will show you some houses that are located in the museum.

1- Melin Bompren

This house is from the nineteenth century  :  

Melin Bompren is a corn mill, built between 1852 and 1853. This mill was built in Cross Inn, near New Quay, Ceredigion, but there were hundreds of similar mills throughout Wales. This house is a traditional Welsh house because it has a water mill . 

It is located at the west of the entrance of the museum .

2- The Tollhouse , 

This house is from the nineteenth century .
This is a tollhouse. It was built in Aberystwyth in 1771 for £40. Tollhouses were built to collect money from travellers. This money was then used for road maintenance. This house is the ancestor of "tolls". 
The Tollhouse is located in the middle of the west side of the museum.






3-The Celtic Village 

These houses are from the Celtic Iron Age . The Celts were an ethno-linguistic group of tribal societies in the Iron Age .
These are recreated roundhouses. We believe people lived in similar houses during the Iron Age, just over 2,000 years ago. 
The Celtic Village is located in the west of the museum .



4- The Cockpit 

 

The Cockpit was built in the yard of the Hawk and Buckle Inn, Denbighshire, in the seventeenth century. It was used, for cockfighting.

5- St Teilo's 

This is a Catholic church , outside Swansea. The oldest parts of the building come from around 1150, but it was extended and changed over the years.



6- Rhyd-y-car 

This is a row of six cottages from Rhyd-y-car in Merthyr. In 1801, Merthyr was the largest town in Wales.

by Camille Busin