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Llancaiach Fawr Manor Llancaiach Fawr Manor Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Gelligaer Road, Nelson, Caerphilly, CF46 6ER  Show on map
Phone: +44 (0)1443 412248

The peaceful rural setting of Llancaiach Fawr Manor gives no clue to the turmoil of its early years nor to the exciting living history it now portrays.

Visitors today step back in time to the year 1645 - a time of Civil War between King and Parliament - and meet servants who tell of the lives of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times.

When the "Cottages" were built as an education facility, outside the enclosed "seventeenth century" area, it was thought that it would be a good idea to have gardens at the rear of these buildings for the use of schools in order to compliment the Manor gardens, as a teaching aid. Not only this, but with a greater area for growing vegetables, we are now able to supply our restaurant with fresh produce.

As much as possible we try to grow the sort of plants that would have been grown in a garden of the period of the Manor. The orchard contains varieties of apples that are now rarely found such as " Decio", "Paradise", and "Catshead" among others. Plants are grown in the Physic garden that would have been used for cures, household use and perfumes etc.

Whilst our gardens are continually developing, we hope that they retain some of the charm of the early gardens and that our visitors might gain a hint of what might have been enjoyed by earlier generations who took such great pleasure and made such good use of this pleasant space.

In a recent poll Llancaiach Fawr was named as one of the Top Ten most haunted buildings in Britain. Strange things have been experienced in almost every room, along corridors and upon stairs. Things seen, heard or felt, or sometimes odours in the air of violets or lavender and roast beef!

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