The first day of winter has been warm and very wet. We drove to Mach in the morning and didn't even bother trying to go our usual route as the road at the other end of the village always floods. With the amount of overnight rain there was no way our little car would make it through. Instead we took the longer way round. There was still a lot of water on the road and fields by the river Dyfi looked like lakes.
We had a good session with our friends in the library after which I dashed to the Post Office and spent an eye watering amount posting our Christmas cards.
Once home I planned a leisurely afternoon putting up the Christmas decorations. I don't put up many but somehow it took a very long time and there's still more to do. I'm even thinking about buying some more lights for the windows.
Now back to yesterday's walk at Hafod.-
From the river we walked up to the gently sloping fields that once would have been the parkland in front of the mansion. The rubble, which is all that remains of the elaborate building, begins just above the sheep in the middle of the picture below and extends to the right.
A photo of the mansion in its latter days before it fell into disrepair.
The mansion was demolished in the late 1950s and now the rubble itself is disappearing under grass and small trees.
A picture showing the mansion in the 1800s?
I think the arched section must have been at right angles to the view in the top picture as it was clearly still there when the building had become a ruin.
A high wall surrounded the stable block part of which has now been restored. We were too late to have a look inside.
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