Nant Gwaedlyd

I walk beside this brook every morning on my way to work. This is where it passes behind the Three Elms pub on Whitchurch Common. I think the wall is probably quite old and has some lovely trees growing through it. Further toward the village shops the nant is graced by several impressive weeping willows. I gleaned the name of the brook from british-history.ac.uk who say: NANT-GWAEDLYD (bloody brook.) A stream which rises in the Cefn range of hills, flows in a south-easterly direction through Whitchurch and is, apparently, lost in the Glamorganshire Canal at Mynachdy. It is said, with some probability, to derive its name from the great battle fought between the Welsh and the Anglo-Normans on Cardiff Heath c. 1090.