I once wrote that abandoned towns and villages are very rare in the UK as the landmass is so densly packed with people. Everything tend to get reused pretty quickly; well here’s the exception to that. A town has been rediscovered in Wales that was abandoned in the 19th century due to the landlord raising the rent - so for about 150 years the village had remained untouched and abandoned. The site can be found on Google Maps here. The landlord is thought to have taken the villagers livestock and sold it off when they refused to pay the extra rent. With no livlyhood the villagers moved out.

“There are at least 25 houses - a complete village … [that would have had in it] several hundred people with orchards and hundreds of animals like pigs and goats and donkeys.
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There is a drovers road, cottages, a bakery, toilets and a two-storey building further up the mountainside.

There was also the discovery of a rare beehive pigsty which is almost identical to one that was taken away from another site brick by brick and rebuilt at the Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans, Cardiff.

An inscription above a doorway has been uncovered which dates to 1746.

The village is thought to have been lived in from the early 1700s to the mid or late 19th century.”

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