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Kenfig

Near Porthcawl, Bridgend

A medieval town lost under the sand dunes.

Kenfig was a thriving medieval town with a castle and a church. From the 1300s, great storms drove sand over it, and by the 1500s the townspeople had given up.

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When
Buried by 1500s
Where
51.5200, -3.7300
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Kenfig National Nature Reserve has a visitor centre and dune walks.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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