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Welsh Giants

Llans, hollow boles, and contested millennia

A chain of circular churchyards where the yew is older than the stone. Llangernyw and Defynnog hold the loudest age claims in Britain; Discoed, Pennant Melangell and Nevern show why the llan itself is the artefact.

6 stops · Wales · about 503 km as the crow flies between legs — roads are longer.

  1. 1

    Fragmented giant in a Conwy llan.

  2. 2

    Four churchyard yews in the Beacons.

    140 km from previous stop

  3. 3

    Quiet Radnorshire enclosure.

    50 km from previous stop

  4. 4

    Shrine valley and living vallum.

    59 km from previous stop

  5. 5

    Bleeding avenue and Celtic cross.

    122 km from previous stop

  6. 6

    Pulpit inside the bole.

    132 km from previous stop