Abernant

What a spot to live, high on a hill!

Nice lane to walk.

Lovely little things.

A lovely lane to walk.

Lovely landscape.

Was by the A483, in parish of Welshpool (Powys District). Now in antique shop in Herefordshire. Inscription reads:- : 4½ / NEWT(OWN) / (WELSH)POOL / 9 : Milestone Society National ID: MOT_WPNT09

It is proposed that a substation be built in either Abermule, near Newtown, or Cefn Coch, near Llanfair Caereinion, covering about 19 acres of rolling countryside, in order to gather-in the output from the multitude of wind-farms planned for mid-Wales. In addition, of course, there would also be a need to build a network of pylons to connect them all up and to the national grid. Quite naturally, the people of Montgomeryshire want none of it and this sign on a trailer body beside the A483 between Newtown and Welshpool, just about sums up the local feeling. A measure of the strength of feeling is that some 2000 people attended a protest meeting at Welshpool on April 20th - not a bad turnout for a rural area! At least the local MP, Glyn Davies, has given them his full support and all credit to him. Watch out any local politician who favours this scheme - you won't stand a chance in the forthcoming elections. I don't believe that there has been such strength of feeling in Wales about a large infrastructure project since the Llyn Celyn protests in the late 50s/ early 60s. It is an absolute disgrace that the Welsh Assembly is sponsoring the project but, even if they did not, I'm sure that the so-called energy secretary in Westminster, the screwball Huhne, would force it through. He is after all, nothing more than a front man for Greenpeace. What price local democracy? It didn't work in the case of Llyn Celyn and it probably won't work in Montgomeryshire. I can only complete this rant by repeating the well chosen words of Montgomeryshire United - "Stick your pylons" and if I may add - AND YOUR WINDFARMS! See also SO1797 : Protest sign beside the A483 road.

See also SO1797 : "Stick your pylons".

Presumably the hedge-line originally followed a watercourse but there is no sign of one on the map. The B4386 may be seen in the middle ground with the railway line (on an embankment at this point) just beyond it. The River Severn is the next horizontal line from the camera and the A483 is immediately behind the hedge the other side of the plain. The settlement on the hill beyond is Fron. Seen from the car park at the green burial ground.

Better visibility than in a similar shot I took a few years back Link . The nearer of the 'lumps' in the background is Beddau SO1897 while those to its right are Breidden SJ2914 and Moel y Golfa SJ2812.

The nearer of the 'lumps' in the background is Beddau SO1897 while those in the centre are Breidden SJ2914 and Moel y Golfa SJ2812 with the Long Mountain to the right.