It looks like Parc le Breos house is now a guesthouse. There is also a field
that the Scouts use called Parc le Breos, just off the road to the house.
http://www.parclebreos.co.uk/. Contact page gives postcode and how to find
it.
Courthouse Farm
Parkmill, Swansea, West Glamorgan SA3 2EE
http://www.parc-le-breos.co.uk/walk23.htm describes a walk I have done in
the opposite direction with my brother-in-law. Best not done after heavy
rain as Bishopston valley gets a bit wet underfoot.
Courthouse farm is shown in the wrong place on Google maps but the right
place on
www.old-maps.co.uk if you start with the postcode. From memory it
looks like parts of it have been there for a very long time indeed.
If you've got your bus pass you could enjoy a ride on the greyhound to
Swansea and a trip out to Gower. The 118 takes you out along the main road
where at various stops you can get off to trek into the wilds.
I wonder whether the pedigree you found lists its sources.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert williams" <canton_cardiff_wales(a)yahoo.com>
To: <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:17 PM
Subject: [GLA] Courthouse Ilston.
My Thanks to Jeff,and Richard for the informative response to my question
on Nicholaston Hall.
I was in the Central Library today and asked the Librarian if he could order
a book for me
about "The BOWEN family of Courthouse".
I gave him the reference number,told him the book was from 1927,and he said
to me
"Hang on a minute!"
Then lo and behold,He produced the very same book from one of the open
shelves.
So I thought to myself,Thats where I had seen the mention of this place
before.
Going through this book on every page was details of my family.
Not only confirming the stuff I already had on them all,Mentioning that The
Place was purchased in 1441,
But in the back of the book was a five page Joined together A.4 sized Family
Tree of all of them back to about
1400.
This family links up to the Bleddyn ap Maenyrch,[c.1010-1093],and much
further back through Bleddyn's wife
Ellen,daughter of Tewdwr Mawr,back to Rhodri Mawr.[died 878]
The above book was compiled by Lt;Col;E.R;COTTINGHAM,M.V.O;
and entitled "Pedigree of BOWEN of Court House.
I also found a small map in the Library showing where Courthouse was in
Ilston.
Close by was Parc le Breos.Yet another place in my family tree.
Do either of these places still exist?
Cheers Graham.
From:- Graham WILLIAMS,of Canton,Cardiff.
Glamorgan F.H.S;#551.