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1. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Eben Muse

   Country diary: South Wales’s summer of fires will linger long in the memory | Eben Muse (opens the original)

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   Tylorstown, Rhondda Valley: These coal areas are shaped by fire and ash. I find a high point to try and survey the damage My friend John and I are climbing Tylorstown Tip – a summit also known as Old Smokey, named after the hot ash it was partly made with. We want to see how much of south Wales has burned. The tip towers over the surrounding hills, a perfect crow’s nest from which to witness the blackening of the region. From the summit, with its sitka spruce and flowering heather, the expan

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2. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Eben Muse

   Country diary: The field names here read like a history book | Eben Muse (opens the original)

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   Ynys Enlli, Gwynedd: A stroll down this island’s one road provides clues to its past – and it has nothing to do with the 20,000 saints apparently buried here In 1938, the Welsh naturalist Ronald Lockley described Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island) as a mountain “crudely cemented to a lowland valley, and the whole thing thrown into the middle of a violent tide-race”. Much has changed since then, but that vivid picture holds true, as I wander it today. Certainly there’s a lovely simplicity to Enlli being

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