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Article: The second battle of Pilleth: Juliet Boobbyer tells the story of the restoration of a church on the site of an historic battle between the Welsh and English.(Healing History)(St. Mary's Church)
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- For A Change
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- April 1, 2005
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On a hillside, standing sentinel over one of the most beautiful valleys on the Welsh Marches, stands the ancient and weather-beaten church of St Mary's, Pilleth.
This is border country with a long and turbulent history. Everyone knows that borderlands can be flash points. England and Wales meet here and in the past fought it out, stealing each other's cattle, firing villages and building castles to enforce the ownership of occupied lands. For ordinary people it must have been a precarious existence.
This history has produced a people with an identity of their own. They don't consider themselves either Welsh or English: 'We are from Radnorshire,' they ...