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Date: 26.12.2018 Ground: 77 Match: 18 (2018/2019 Season) Venue Date: 26.12.2018 Ground: 77 Match: 18 (2018/2019 season) Venue: Forest Road Teams: Hay St. Mary’s V Presteigne St. Andrews Competition: Mid Wales League Division 2 Admission: £3 Final Score: 5-2 ( H/T 3-0 ) Referee: Not Known Attendance: 81 ( Head Count ) Mileage to venue and return: 101.8 Miles Programme: None on Sale Introduction Happy Christmas one and all – my travels on Boxing Day took me too Forest Road home of Hay St. Mary’s Football Club. My Father-in-Law, Dave accompanied me to the match and we arrived at the ground at 13:45, plenty of time for me to have a couple of festive beers as Dave was driving. This was the first time we had attended a football match together since Boxing Day 2017 where we watched West Bromwich Albion V Everton at The Hawthorns. We enjoyed a pleasant journey from South Shropshire too the Powys town of Hay-on-Wye, too my surprise there was little traffic on the roads. Right, lets get into my report of the day, as usual the first segment of my report will provide information with regards to Hay-on-Wye, the town where Hay St. Mary’s Football Club is based. Hay-on-Wye Hay-on-Wye or in Welsh – Y Gelli Gandryll or just Y Gelli and often shortened to just, “Hay” is a small market town situated in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) in Wales, currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys. Following the census of 2011, the town was recorded as having a population of 1598 people. The area is first referred too between 1135 and 1147 as “Haya” by 1299 the name of “La Haye” was in use. Fast forward to the 16th Century and the area was simply known as “Hay” In 1215, a Welsh name, “Gelli” was recorded and subsequently “Gelli gandrell” in 1614, one school of thought is that the two names were used concurrently in 1625. The English name “Hay” comes from the Old English language, “Haeg” which possibly means a “fenced area”. It was also used as a noun in late Saxon and Norman times for an enclosure in a forest. The Welsh word, celli, lenited (sound change) to Gelli has several meanings including wooded areas of various extents. Hay-on-Wye is situated on the South-East bank of the River Wye and is also within the North- easternmost point of the Brecon Beacons National Park, lying just North of the Black Mountains. The town is only just on the Welsh section of the border with the County of Herefordshire, England – duly defined by the Dulas Brook. The Brook joins the River Wye slightly North of the town and the border continues to travel North along the river. The Wye was formerly the boundary between the former counties and districts of Radnorshire and Brecknockshire. Adjacent to the town of Hay-on-Wye is the village of Cussop which lies on the English side of the Dulas Brook. The closest city to the town is Hereford, only a 22-mile drive to the East. Hay-on-Wye is famous for bookshops and is a destination for the lovers of books. The town still has over 20 book shops at its disposal, many of which selling both specialist and second-hand books. Since 1988, the town has been the venue of a literacy festival which is now sponsored by the Daily Telegraph Newspaper. The festival runs for a full ten days and attracts more than 80,000 visitors over the ten-day format. Like the town of Builth Wells (19 miles to the North-West of Hay-on-Wye) Hay-on-Wye has two castles from the Norman Period. It is possible that the town was firstly fortified by William FitzOsbern (1020-1071) during his penetration of the South-East area of Wales during the summer of 1070 and achieved by successfully defeating three Welsh Kings. FitzOsbern was a relative and respected counsellor of William the Conqueror as well as being the Lord of Breteuil in Normandy and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. The history of the area then proceeds to continue through the Lordships of the de Neufmarches, confirmed during the battle of Brecon in 1093 and also the Gloucester/Hereford families until 1165, when the district of Brycheiniog (Brycheiniog was an independent Kingdom in South Wales during the middle ages) transferred into the hands of the de Braose dynasty (William de Braose, First Lord of Bramber) of Marcher Lords. During 1230, Hay Castle was passed onto the de Bohuns and the local history, which includes the battle near Hay in 1231 is continued throughout the Mortimer Wars of the 1260’s and the battle near Brecon in 1266 down to the death of Earl Humphrey de Bohun in 1298. Situated close to St Mary’s Church on the very western edge of Hay-on-Wye is a small sized but well- preserved motte. The site of the motte overlooks a gorge and stream, known locally as The Loggin Brook, the Brook flows into the River Wye. Historians suggest that this was without doubt one reason for the construction of a motte and bailey castle upon the site. The Fortress, small in stature was possibly the work of Bernard de Neufmarche (1050-1125 – one of the first conquerors of Wales) the same site may well later have been the seat for the manor or commote of Melinog. The main fortress in Hay-on-Wye was positioned on the site commanding the town and river under the present-day ruins of the castle and mansion. Historians have little doubt that this was the ‘castello de haia’ which was handed over into the possession of, Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford in 1121 with Sibyl de Neufmarche, the daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche. There is a distinct possibility that this could be the oldest Norman tower in the whole of Wales dating to the strike by William FitzOsbern in 1070. During the anarchy of 1136-1154 and in the reign of King Stephen (1092/96 – 1154) a series of charters were passed by the Gloucester’s with regards to the castle. In 1165 the final male descendant of Miles of Gloucester was killed at nearby Bronllys Castle, Bronllys – subsequently Hay- on-Wye castle passed into the hands of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and of New Radnor and Buellt. The de Braose family were hard working and active Lords and most likely built the core of the gatehouse, the gatehouse stands besides the keep, today. During the summer of 1198 a significant English army formed here, onwards they marched to victory at the Battle of Painscastle, Painscastle is situated between the towns of Builth and Hay-on-Wye, approximately three miles from the Wales-England border. In 1230 the last de Braose of Brecon, namely William de Braose was hanged by Prince Llwelyn ab Lowerth. Prince Llwelyn 1173-1240 was a King of Gwynedd in North Wales and was to become the ruler of all of Wales, the Prince dominated Wales for a period of 45 years. Following the hanging of William de Braose, Brecon lordship with Hay-on-Wye was passed over into the hands of the de Bohuns. Prince Llwelyn used this to his advantage in 1231 by ravaging the lands of his de Bohun in- laws, in doing so much of Hay-on-Wye was burnt, the castle did however somehow survive the onslaught. The castle was to change hands three times in three years between 1263-1266, during the Barons’ War. In approximately 1401 both the town and the castle sustained damage by the forces of Owain Glyndwr. (1359-1415, Owain Glyndwr was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales) The castle was still listed as defensible against the Welsh two years later in 1403. Later the castle would be the possession of the Earls of Stafford, who were subsequently to become the unfortunate and unlucky dukes of Buckingham during the War of the Roses. During the conflicts of the 1460’s the castle was repaired but reports suggest that its military use would have been a little dubious against cannon fire. During the 1660’s, James Boyle from nearby Hereford constructed a new mansion on the north side of the castle. In doing this, Boyle demolished the majority of the curtain wall in order to obtain better views. The mansion today is now used for second-hand book selling. The town of Hay-on-Wye is twinned with a Belgian village by the name of Redu situated in the municipality of Libin. It is also twinned with the ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali. On 1st April 1977, Richard George William Pitt Booth MBE (born in Hay-on-Wye in 1938) derived a publicity stunt by declaring Hay-on-Wye an independent kingdom and in doing so declared himself as its monarch. Hay-on-Wye was to even have its own National Anthem, written by Les Penning. This unique set of tongue in cheek events has subsequently helped to develop a healthy tourism industry based upon literacy events for which some people credit to Booth. In 2005, Booth spoke of plans to sell his bookshop in the town and relocate to Germany, this news moved local MP Roger Williams to say – “His legacy will be that Hay changed from a small market town into a mecca for second-hand book lovers and this transformed the local economy” Other notable people with connections to Hay-on-Wye include: Herbert Rowse Armstrong the “Hay Poisoner” – the only UK solicitor to have been hanged for murder.
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