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Gareth Phillips, Cowbridge
Cowbridge Town is a lovely place to live. The beautiful countryside and villages around it are a delight. The actual Cowbridge people, although very few and far between, are a lovely, friendly bunch, although now, totally out numbered by the 'snobby' new comers. Pushing our children out of town, due to the huge prices on houses! You'd be pushed to hear a Welsh accent here ... shame!!
Jacob Ellis from Corntown
I think that it is the best place for a person that loves the wildlife, countryside and nature it provides all of this in Corntown. If you ever need the fresh air come to the countryside of Corntown.
Sue Gardiner nee MacDonald (Pontypridd)
My Mum and Aunt had the castle gardens at Penllyn many years ago and we lived in the old school house on the castle estate. I have so many happy memories of the little village and my friends Chris Llewellyn, Great House Farm, and June Thomas who lived in Graig Penllyn. I went to Cowbridge High School for Girls during the era when respect was a vital part of school life and girls stood when the teacher entered the room. I lecture myself now but respect for staff members or fellow peers is sadly no longer even considered.
I remember going riding through Penllyn, Graig Penllyn up to St. Mary Hill and around Treos on my pony along with my friends and I am certain my mother never worried that we were gone for more than four hours. We never seemed to be worried about meeting 'strangers' along the way and our growing up just seemed to amble along in a very pleasant happy childhood.
I visit Cowbridge often, especially at Christmas time when it just seems to have a much more 'Christmassy' feel to it and although the houses around the town have now increased in numbers it still retains that small country town feeling. It's a special little place!!
Lucie Morris ne griffin essex
I was born in 1954,just outside cowbridge at new beaupre house,i left when i was 13yrs old ,went to st mary church infants ,then balfour house in st athans ,Have very happy memories of my chilhood ,riding down to Llantwit Major on the ponies,cowbridge carnival,haymaking on the farm,catching the bus to cardiff ,and coming home with a rabbit or some pet bought from the indoor market,those halcyon days have gone i fear,any body else remember those days ?
andrew painter, aldershot
lived there all my life, family still live there. joined the army 1988. when i return on leave feel like a stranger. still a beautiful place, pity about housing prices. never mind, might win the lottery.
John Akers in Panama City, Central America
My reminders of Cowbridge go back to early 50s when we used to play rugby for Llandaff Cathedral School against Cowbridge Grammar School. The last time I was in Cowbridge was in 1978 - we found out the pubs opened an hour later than in Cardiff, so off to Cowbridge. We went to the Duke of Wellington on the High Street ... does it still exist? Hope so because I'm planning a trip to Wales next year.
Margaret Alexander from Barry
The Vale has a superb coastal path from Barry to Southerndown, with great views, fascinating rock formations and heaps of plant and animal life. As well as good pubs a little way inland...
Peter in Delaware, USA
Isn't it time the people of Llantwit Major rebelled against their town's name and have a petition to restore it to its former Welsh name: Llanilltyd Fawr? For those who can't pronounce it, it will take only a generation to have it fully accepted.
Steve Maitland Thomas from Porthcawl
Not a lot of people know that the town's first charter was copied word for word from that of a more successful medieval town - Kenfig. Coincidentally, I also believe that Kenfig is the site of the missing Roman fort of Bovium.
Sian Evans
The High Street is still full of individual shops, not the usual samey bunch of chains. Sadly there are now more clothes and gift shops than food stores - I imagine that's down to the high rents. We could do with a really good wholefood/organic type grocers, but I expect the mark-up on that type of thing wouldn't make it viable. People are really friendly - not in a yokelly old-fashioned way, just genuinely friendly when they get to know you. My mum is moving to Cowbridge, after 25 years in rural Mid Wales, and she has found Cowbridge full of interesting people ready to welcome her into all sorts of activities...which has made what could have been quite a traumatic move from family home in the country to smaller town house really easy. Cowbridge also still has some proper pubs, not all tarted up into restaurants with beer...the Vale of Glamorgan, Masons Arms and Edmondes Arms come to mind. Good restaurants and coffee shops if that's more your thing...and the monthly Farmers Market is great...
Millie Bromley near Newport
My great-great-grandfather was born in the Cowbridge District in the late 1700s (Colwinston). So I had hoped to read details of what Cowbridge was like in those days. Can someone supply me with pics and description etc? Did they all speak Welsh? Was farming the main or only occupation?
