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CAMRA’s Real Heritage Pubs of Wales Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest
Tafarnau Treftadaeth - Tafarnau o Ddiddordeb Hanesyddol Mewnol
formance of Max Boyce; and the National Trustowned Cwmdu Inn run by the villagers, who also run the adjoining village shop. Y This guide will lead you to the smallest pub in Wales; pubs with stunning snugs; a pub with no bar counter; and one pub whose interior came from an ocean liner. Y Discover which Welsh heritage pubs sell real ale, much of it locally produced, some brewed on the premises; also where you can still get served ‘beer from the jug’. Y Public transport details, accommodation & food availability are given for each pub.
AMRA’s Real Heritage Pubs of Wales - Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest / Tafarnau Treftadaeth - Tafarnau o Ddiddordeb Hanesyddol Mewnol is a unique guide that will lead you to 100 Welsh pubs with historic interiors of real national significance, many of them stretching back a century or more. The featured pubs include old-fashioned time-warp inns, some tiny; and magnificent Victorian drinking palaces, some with spectacular tiled counters and impressive bar fittings. It contains: -
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which reveal the variety of historic pub interiors in Wales. Discover where you can drink in a C13th crypt; the round tower of a town’s medieval walls; a C17th guildhall; and a coaching inn still with horses in its stables. Y Features the No Sign Bar, Swansea, a regular haunt of one of Wales’ greatest poets, Dylan Thomas; the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel, that was the training base for the first ascent of Everest in 1953 (the team’s signatures are on the ceiling); Ivy Bush, Pontardawe, that hosted first public per-
A fully updated edition of this successful publication has just been published and is on sale for the first time at this festival. The cover price is £6.99 and is available to CAMRA members for only £5.99. It is also available from https://shopcamnra.org.uk and bookshops ISBN 978-1-85249-275-5. Real Heritage Pubs of Wales is a guide to a remarkable and varied collection of pubs with the best and most interesting interiors in the whole of Wales. It is CAMRA’s pioneering initiative to bring greater appreciation of the most valuable historic pub interiors in the country to both local people and visitors. Although Wales has over 4,000 public houses, this guide lists just 100 or so. There are so few because of the enormous amount of opening out, theming and general modernisation that has taken place in recent decades. Safeguarding what is now left of the country’s pub heritage has become a serious conservation challenge. By publishing this guide, CAMRA aims to encourage owners and local authorities to take steps to ensure that these surviving gems remain genuine historic pubs for years to come. Editors: Michael Slaughter and Mike Dunn; Project Co-ordinator : Rhys Jones The Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival 2012 27