Lord Morgans Walk

Another strange weather day that has alternated between thunder and lightning and sun. After making the wife's sandwiches and packing them and her off to work the rest of the day was mine. I sat down to do one of my regular back-ups of my photo's onto a separate hard drive, when I got a double call out.

Afterwards, I decided on photographing Tredegar House from a viewpoint you don't see very often. Indeed, even rarer now as the farm, in Bassaleg, is now a private residence which houses the hill overlooking Tredegar House. There is a line of trees, on either side of the house, that continue to the top of the hill. It was a walk the Morgans of Tredegar did to picnic at the top, obviously accompanied by servants. As you can see, the views overlook the house and across the Bristol Channel to England. The line of trees is now intersected by The M4 which was constructed along this stretch in 1966.

Tredegar House was completed in 1672 on the site of a house dating back to the 15th century. For over five hundred years was home to the Morgan family, later Lords Tredegar.
The house is described as "The grandest and most exuberant country house" in Monmouthshire and one of the "outstanding houses of the Restoration period in the whole of Britain". The mansion stands in the 90 acres of Tredegar Park.
During the civil war after the Battle of Naseby, King Charles I visited Tredegar House in 1645.

I used to live in Bassaleg near the hill and it was a regular walk, well worth the effort for the stunning views.

For those interested the photo is uncropped and is in low photometric colour.