Llanyrafon Manor Rural Heritage Site. Cwmbran.

After an amazingly relaxing morning out yesterday at local arts centre, my friend and I ended up at 'The Raspberry Tea Rooms' at Llanyrafon Manor. The autumn sunshine was warm enough for us to sit outside and we had a beautifully prepared and presented Welsh Rarebit for lunch. This was followed by home made cake and preservative free ice cream. Delicious! This is not the first time I have visited this lovely old Manor House (which is being restored to it's former state) where I had been for a cream tea previously. The standard has not dropped, if anything it has improved! All this within five miles or so of where I live. You have to count your blessings sometimes.
 

 

I have now become interested in this lovely place and discovered through reading and research that it is run, not too dissimilarly, along the lines of the Nantgarw pottery project.

 

I discovered that if it weren’t for a group of local volunteers who gathered together in 2006 with a view to saving the building, the Manor would not be there, in it's preserved state, as it is today. These campaigners became the Llanyrafon Manor Community Group (LMCG) and it was this group that secured various funding streams which covered the refurbishment of the Manor and its consequent opening.



They have been heavily involved in the restoration and re-use of the Manor and Torfaen County Borough Council retained their pro-active involvement in planning for its future. Well done to committed people like this who are looking out for, and succeeding in, preserving local history.