Subject: Re: James Motley's Notes to the Canwyll Corph
From: "jp_hailey" <jp_hailey@...>
Date: 22 Mar 2007 14:19
--- In mysterylights@yahoogroups.com, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@...> wrote: > > There was apparently a valley containing a tributary of the Rhondda > fawr in Monmouthshire/Glamorgan which was well known for the Goblin > fire, getting it the name "the Valley of glooms or spirits". It might > be nice to attempt to locate this on a map. > I live about 25 miles from the general Rhondda area, its too long a main river to know which tributary he refers too... there's a major geological fault listed called the Dinas Fault, and the Rhondda is of course a coal area... so maybe plenty of gases The reference to 'glooms' seems a common desription of land, due to poems of the time or common English usage... ...maybe I'll contact the local museums see if they know of Valley of the Glooms.. Paul