Thursday, 13 January 2011

OLD NEW YEARS EVE IS TONIGHT IN THE GWAUN VALLEY IN WALES. BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA ETOI!


  1. Reports on 2010 old new year celebrations.
      1. 14 Jan 2010 ... Residents of the Gwaun Valley made the effort to celebrate Hen Galan ..."They struggled through the snow to ensure the age old tradition is kept alive. ... Hen Galan is the old new year as marked by the Julian calendar. ...
        1. www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/4852013.Gwaun_Valley_celebrates_Hen_Galan_despite_the_drifts/ - Cached
    1. New Year tradition - BBC - Homepage

      14 Jan 2010 ... Local tradition means they follow the Julian calendar, rather than the more ..."Their 91-year-old great grandmother, who was brought up in the valley, ... Archive footage ofNew Year celebrations in the Gwaun Valley ...
      news.bbc.co.uk/local/southwestwales/hi/.../newsid.../8459457.stm - Cached
    2. BBC News | WALES | Double millennium for calendar rebels

      Children in the Gwaun Valley celebrate the New Year twice ...
      news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/600169.stm - Cached - Similar
    3. Welsh valley sticks to the Julian calendar

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      - 4 min - 13 Jan 2008 - Uploaded by RussiaToday

      Villagers in a tiny Welsh community may not realise it, but they have something in common with pre-revolution Russia. They are marking New ...
      www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q8SVJ4CAHo - Related videos
    4. Gwaun Valley - Visit Pembrokeshire for accommodation, coast path ...

      3 Dec 2010 ... The Gwaun Valley is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and has a unique ... and Llanychaer uphold a unique tradition - they still celebrate New Year's Day on 13th January according to the old Gregorian calendar! ...
      www.visitpembrokeshire.com/content.asp?id=1988 - Cached - Similar
    5. Gwaun Valley, Wales - Do You Travel::View Blog

      17 Oct 2007 ... They, for instance, celebrate New Year – or Hen Galan – on 13th January, according to the old Julian calendar, rather than the new fangled ...
      www.doyoutravel.com/blogs/gwuan/ - Cached
    6. Traditions Uk - New Year

      Of course, the change to the Julian calendar in 1752 meant that January 12th ... There are still a few old New Year traditions that persist here in the ... in the remote Gwaun Valleythey still celebrate Christmas and New Year (Nos ...
      www.traditions-uk.freeservers.com/newyear.html - Cached
    7. Valley celebrates New Year's Day - Wales News - News - WalesOnline

      13 Jan 2007 ... A WELSH community is paying homage to an old calendar and celebrating its second New Year's Day today. Communities in Pembrokeshire's Gwaun ...
      www.walesonline.co.uk/news/...news/tm_headline=valley-celebrates-new-year-s-day&method=full&objectid=18461142&siteid=50082-name... - Cached
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      Gelli Fawr

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      wooded Gwaun Valley to the sea at. Fishguard. The valley is a relict of the ... calendar in the 18th century and the. Old New Year, Hen Galan, is still ...
      www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk/Files/files/Walk%20PDF/.../gelli_fawr.pdf
    9. The Gwaun Valley, setting of Tregynon 14th Century Farmhouse ...

      Legends, traditions and old customs abound. Even the 'Old New Year' - Hen Galan - is still celebrated in the Gwaun Valley on the 13th January of each year. ... that the local populace retained the 'Julian' calendar while the rest of ...
      www.online-holidays.net/tregynon/gwaun_valley.php3 - Cached
    10. Pembrokeshire 'New Year' snowed off in Gwaun - Manchester News

      13 Jan 2010 ... Archive footage of New Year celebrations in the Gwaun Valley. The Juliancalendar was abolished controversially in 1752 and replaced with the ... A 40-year-oldcriminology student who described himself as the "crossbow ...
      www.manchesterwired.co.uk/news.../10199-Pembrokeshire-New-Year-snowed-off-in-Gwaun -Cached
  2. G.Gruffydd.