Plas yn Rhiw
United Kingdom · Europe
About
Plas yn Rhiw is an early 17th-century manor house in Y Rhiw, Gwynedd in northwestern Wales. The estate consists of a small house of Tudor/Georgian style, a garden of just under one acre in size, and many wooded acres. Located at the base of Mynydd Rhiw, the estate overlooks the beach of Porth Neigwl (Hell's Mouth), Cardigan Bay, and the Llŷn Peninsula.
The history of the manor's estate predates construction of the house to some 4000 years of the Neolithic period. After the house's construction in the early 17th century (an inscription of I.L. on a window lintel is dated 1634), the manor house witnessed a long historical family saga, which ended in the 1940s when the three sisters donated it to the National Trust in memory of their parents, Constance and William Keating. Before that, they had refurbished the garden and restored the manor house to its old glory. The three sisters, who lived in the house until each of their deaths, are buried in a churchyard near Porth Ysgo, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) from Plas yn Rhiw. Plas yn Rhiw is the only organic National Trust garden in Wales.
The original garden was expanded by the trust to include 150 acres (61 ha) of surrounding woodland. The garden and park are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.