Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . , see Lisburrie, Crosswood.) In theimmediate neighbourhood, on the other side of the river, which is here crossed by a skeletonbridge amid overhanging woods, is Birckgrove, the embowered residence of the heir of theestate. Lord Vaughan, and usually appropriated to a cadet of the family. The valley of the Ystwyth, all the way from Crosswood to its discharge into the sea nearAberystwyth, offers a continued su
Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . , see Lisburrie, Crosswood.) In theimmediate neighbourhood, on the other side of the river, which is here crossed by a skeletonbridge amid overhanging woods, is Birckgrove, the embowered residence of the heir of theestate. Lord Vaughan, and usually appropriated to a cadet of the family. The valley of the Ystwyth, all the way from Crosswood to its discharge into the sea nearAberystwyth, offers a continued succession of bright and attractive views. The sides of thevale are often broken into ravines and gullies, whose recesses are clothed with the verdure ofthe larch and the birch, while the more barren sides and uplands are enlivened by trimcottages and homesteads, and every spot admitting of it is cultivated with diligent thrift. Inthis part of the valley we witness several elegant residences: Llidiarde, the seat ofG. W. Parry, Esq.; Castle Hill, the beautifully situated mansion of James Loxdale, Esq. ;Aber?naide (properly and anciently Abermf;d, the junction of the stream Mud with the. Nanteos: the Seat of Col. W. T. R. Powell. Ystwyth), where Lewis P. Pugh, Esq., is now (1871) erecting a sumptuous residence fromdesigns by the accomplished architect, J. P. Seddon, Esq. Further on, and to the left of thevale, is Ffosr/iyd-galcd, the seat of James Davies, Esq. ; and near the sea, Tanybwlc/i,the property of M. L. V. Davies, Esq. A little over the hills to the right, embosomed in a warm depression, where several PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF CARDIGANSHIRE. 131 rivulets meet—a place made by nature for a home of elegance—is the mansion of Auuiieossurrounded by hills and woodlands, and seen to advantage from the coach road. Whether the name of this delightful place, which means the nightingales dell, is thecreation of fancy or the record of fact is not known, but the shy and fastidious so
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