OUR HISTORY We

found this coin in the

walls while restoring

Ffynnon Clûn, a Grade

Two listed building.

It is the short-cross

'Tealby' penny of

Henry II (1154-89),

which was  circulating

in Wales when Gerald

of Monmouth passed

Ffynnon Clûn on his

journey from St Davids

to St Dogmaels,

preaching the Third

Crusade. The account

of his travels is in his

Itinerarium Cambriae.

600 years later Ffynnon Clûn was on the front line when French troops briefly

occupied the Pencaer peninsula of Pembrokeshire in1797, hoping to inspire

rebellion against London government in Ireland and Wales. The invasion ended in

drunken humiliation for 1300 troops, who marched past the gates of Ffynnon Clûn

to surrender on Goodwick Sands.

Another 200 years later, Griff Rhys Jones filmed the restoration of Ffynnon Clûn as

he started work on his own farmhouse up the lane. He is not the only one to be

startled by our (restored) wavy roof. Our builder wasn’t drunk. It is deliberate!