Thanks for watching, everyone. I’ve been messing around with some microphone settings, and talking in a more natural cadence, so I apologise if this sounds like a bass-boosted ASMR or something, but hopefully it sounds better than the last videos. Also, unfortunately almost none of the churches featured have any photos... except for Eglwys Ederyn. They appear to be copyrighted though, so while I couldn't include them in the video, you can see a picture of the excavation of the cemetery here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43589/images?term=Eglwys%20Edern Diolch!
Likely all those churches are still around, just that the stone was repurposed into walls, fencing and such over time, as they became parts of later built houses in the direct area around the site.
I love it! I get caught up in similar endeavors myself, but since it’s the US, it’s looking back decades more than centuries. I can really appreciate the feeling of finding something like an old cemetery or ghost town and wondering when the last time was it used, maintained, thought about…Well done sir! 🫡
Any chance you could share that manuscript? Im wondering if the potential Church site on the slope below Bangor University that we're gonna try to excavate at some point is on there
I love that my favorite UA-cam channel is ran by a Welsh lovecraftian deity that teaches me about Welsh history, locations, people and existential dread
There is a celtic god by the name of Nodens that is a fusion of celtic deities names that would later be made into an Elder God in the Dreamcycle stories
I've done it a few times, but for preservation's sake, I also encourage others to put this information up in Wikipedias and other places as well, having all this on a single video on a fickle website like UA-cam is just one point of failure away from losing it all over again. Better yet, if anyone lives in the region and is particularly taken by the idea of preserving this information, make a plaque or something and install them at the sites (with permission ofc).
As a French-Canadian from southern Ontario, I’m not sure why the history of lost churches and chapels in Wales from the 16th century is so profoundly important to me but I’m glad it is
@@kingpresiden I occasionally get comments saying he’s apparently quite famous in the folklore world, which is funny because to me he’s just a little analogue horror creature
@@CambrianChronicles Is he the same S(abine) Baring-Gould who wrote Onward Christian Soldiers? I may have asked this on another of your videos, I can't remember
If anyone wonders why so many farms are built ontop of these chapels/churches. In the west of Ireland (where I am from) planning permission is extremely hard for new buildings so that it doesn't "spoil the natural beauty of the landscape" aka pay the planning board a bribe (I'm serious). So what people do is that they buy a site with a ruin and then build their house out of that ruin, since it already exists as a building it is a lot easier to get planning permission compared to a new build. This means that lots of houses and farms in the west of Ireland are built on top of ruins, in one case I was talking to one woman who wanted to preserve the stonework of the old cottage but the builders ended up collapsing the walls in on the cottage to form the foundation of the house... (This was back in the 1980s). For any farm houses older than the 1950s (when Ireland had a great push to make sure everyone had proper modern houses) it was just a case of buildings going where the land is good. Aka a chapel was built there because the ground was good, so after it was ruined a farmer would build his house with that stone on that spot because it was a good spot.
It's the opposite in Hungary: sites of ruins (especially medieval, we don't have a lot of those thanks to the Ottomans) are almost always protected, you are not allowed to build over them.
@@OCinneide ah that’s very interesting, thank you for the info. There’s definitely a lot of rebuilding out of ruins in Wales, I’ve read several antiquarians in the 1800s complaining about houses, walls, and barns being built out of old stone foundations, and I imagine that plays an equally important part
@@CambrianChronicles There's a legend from Lough Ree in Roscommon about a quaker in the 1800s who moved onto one of the islands in the lake. When building his house he decided to take the corner stone of a chapel that had become a ruin on the island. That night the wildlife on the island turned against him, his horse that he brought to the island turned on him and went wild forcing him to put the horse down. Suposedly there were cattle on the island as well and they, along with a storm, destroyed the Quaker's cabin on the island and forced him to flee back to the mainland. The information on all of this is really sparse, I don't even know if it is true. What I retold is what I've heard from local historians and from information beside the island. Whenever I search it online it just says the locals call it "Quaker Island" because a Quaker owned it in the 1800s but it's name is Inchcleraun officially because of the OS mapping guys. I know you only do Wales but if you ever want to do something in Ireland I think it's obscure enough that it would be fun for you to uncover what the actual history behind it.
@@OCinneide That sounds like a hogwash 'morality' tale. The only way I can see that being in any way true is if something did in fact spook the guy's livestock, and the locals inferred a causation from his use of materials from the chapel. It might have been a joke, it might have been a pastor trying to keep his flock away from the heathens. But yeah. Press F to doubt its literal truth.
I have always liked the history of more remote people a bit more. Maybe because everybody know about William the Conqueror, but I want to learn more and new stuffs. The Welsh the Sogdians, the Tocharians, temple cities in Hellenistic anatolia and that's things we can know something about.
I always wondered how cities looked before the eventual sprawl of civilization took over, but never stopped to think about how much of our nature actually hides the past. Fascinating!
@@huntertrum3658 it’s pretty interesting, the soil hides so much, but even a small forest can shelter a lot. There’s a few castle ruins in Wales that can’t be seen from the air because they’re covered, I think I got pretty lucky in this video since all of the sites are in the open
@@CambrianChronicles The research you are doing is needed, you might just end up in textbooks. But yes, you are absolutely right about how just a little foliage can shelter alot. I live in Louisiana, and it's astonishing how much buried history is already there. A few days ago I stumbled upon an archeological state landmark. It's an "earthwork" made by the Union during the American Civil War. Where was this? Next to a dog adoption center in a busy part of town. As an American, it's very humbling to think about how much history there is already in my country, but also little it is compared to the average European, and how miniscule it is compared to the history that isn't even recorded from the continent that I live on.
@@huntertrum3658 I'm from Boston, MA and I used to give walking tours in the city downtown. I always joked with my visitors that we Bostonians would visit California, see their oldest buildings from the 1800s, and go "that's cute." Then Europeans would come visit us, see our oldest buildings from the 1700s, and go "that's cute." Then Egyptians would visit Europe, see their oldest buildings from the early 1000s (or whenever) and go "that's cute." 😂
I was waiting for this video! I'm on my own 'lost church journey' in my own country Hungary, it is so exciting to see that I'm not alone in my obsessions.
Your videos hit a special niche for me, interesting enough to put on at work and just listen to but also calming enough to fall asleep too. Ive watched damn near your whole channel now... more please, my sanity demands it
Fascinating. I just had to pull up the Lidar image for the Llanfair yn Tyn Dryfol field (SH4071). There appears to be the outline of a rectangular(ish) enclosure on the eastern side of the field (south end is by the kink in the field boundary, where the paler grass is in the google earth image)
I clicked on this video within the first 17 seconds but had to leave a few minutes later, worst mistake of my life lol. I know you might not see this Mr Chronicles, but I just wanted to say that your channel has quickly become arguably my favorite channel on UA-cam, I watch every one of your videos religiously, both on this acc and my dads, and this channel provides me a sense of wonder and amazement I can scarcely get anywhere else. You make my favorite subject all the more enjoyable, and even though there’s no reason whatsoever that I should logically be interested in Welsh history, I think that’s a tribute to how amazing this channel is, because it has me hooked on Welsh history like heroin. I love the style and the way all the information is layed out and it’s just a delight every time. It also inspired me to start learning Welsh, and while I’m admittedly not the best, it’s really interesting and fun and I’m having a blast. This channel will forever be one of my favorites. Diolch, Mr. Chronicles
Field names - modern or old, such as on 18th/19th century enclosure maps - can be useful in deducing locations which are nowadays abandoned. Excellent video, as always.
Dear Cam, Like anyone from the country, I grew up around a lot of llans, and just wanted to know a bit more about how a llan was 'made', so I went to wiki. Please investigate the Welsh history around the sanctification of a site to make it into a space dedicated to a saint, because I was looking into it just now and found a real corker on the wiki page for Llan (placename) and now I really want to know if something this nutty is true. "The founder of a new llan was obliged to reside at the site and to eat only once a day, each time taking a bit of bread and an egg and drinking only water and milk. This lasted for forty days, Sundays excepted, after which the land was considered sanctified for ever." If we, as suggested, except those Sundays (4 Sundays per 40 day dinings), we are left with a possible 22,680 days of a meagre egg sandwich with a cup of milk (or about 62 years - based on the estimate given on wiki of 630+ llans, which I just settled at 630 for). A great burden carried by so few to give us holiness. I can't help but imagine there are some really silly personal and political histories wrapped up in this, because it is such an odd ritual. e; Aahahahahahaha I just checked the cited reference on Wiki - you'll love it
@@kobblestonemc thank you, I’m sure there are many more missing churches in the list. Ynys Môn was easier since there were so many, but if people like this video then I’ll gladly keep looking
Usually I write in Welsh but, those last words you uttered were the pinnacle of us as humans, caught up in our own memory, only to be soon forgotten by our descendants. They were a golden choice of wording, da iawn am hyna, Fydd na fardd i ddod allan ohono chdi eto! Great Video once again, cadw'r gwaith da i fyny!
You might be able to automate some of the checks using some programming. Lookign for strings that are close matches using a string distance function. For example Python has a library called difflib that has an object called SequenceMatcher that returns a ratio from 0 to 1, where 1 indicates an exact match and zero a completely different word. Oracle also has some functions that can help with something called Levenshtein distance. These examples are like fuzzy text (string of characters) matching. Running one list (your ancient one) against a list of known places today might give you some that pop out as near enough to check manually.
Would love to see this implemented, although I have to admit that a lot of the appeal of these videos (at least to me) is the unhinged lengths he goes to.
i love your videos so much, even though i dont know much of anything about Wales. you have so much passion and interest in the topic that it makes me interested as well. you're correcting centuries old errors and shining light on the true past. i cant wait for you next video!
I am incredibly impressed how funny you can make welsh history. I mean we do seem to have similar ideas of interesting hobbies, as reading a 16th century historical list absolutely sounds like a good time to me, but I'm not even european and generally find European history to be very uninteresting compared to the rest of the world, making me enjoy learning about wales is quite an impressive feat
I have the flu and so I was really excited to see that the video I dropped so that I had something decent to watch on UA-cam and then you go and open it with humorous comments about reading 16th century manuscripts and I had a coughing fit so I'm hoping that the rest of it is just as entertaining 😂
02:22 I nearly missed this, but you cannot elude me for long Cambrian Chronicler… 10:08 What do we have here? Another anomaly? 14:00 This feels like I’m on a spiral into insanity furiously scribbling futile notes to ward off future visitors of the dangers to come. Poignant ending, delightful turn of phrases as always (83,000 days, wearing a suit of skin, waking up on a bed of them) especially emphasised where you’re watching it half asleep, delirious at midnight soiling your pants when the despondent soundtrack once again rears its ugly head. 10/10 lost my mind by proxy, would definitely recommend.
@@raritania7581 I first started searching for it after watching the end credits of The Internet’s Flag That Doesn’t Exist, but i think the first time Cambrian used the image explicitly was in the start of Wikipedia’s King Who Doesn’t Exists, then you can see two brief appearances of the image in The Royal Title That No One Can Remember and most recent - excluding this video, was in The Conquest Written Out of History. You could probably find my comment lurking somewhere under the videos with timestamps of each of the appearances. This one was particularly fun because I nearly missed it since it’s only a one second frame compared to the others, but I think my brain has imprinted the image of that cave into the back of my skull or something.
@@AutisticEditz13 Not sure if Cambria has any other plans for them but i think it’s less of an ARG and more of an easter egg for long time viewers of his, but I’m not opposed if he made it one haha
@@raritania7581 I first started searching for it when I finished The Internet’s Flag That Doesn’t Exist’s end credits with the first mention of Cadwaldr in the channel, but i think the first appearance of the cave was an explicit one in the beginning of Wikipedia’s King Who Doesn’t Exists. Then you can see two brief appearances in The Royal Title That No One Can Remember and the latest one - excluding this video, was in The Conquest Written Out of History. You could probably find my comments with the timestamps for each of the appearances lurking under the comment sections.
No PERSONALLY taking a trip to Llandinam to photograph the door yourself?? You're getting sloppy! I kid. I love this channel. Thanks so much for being so counterintuitively interesting
It is 0:00 am on Friday, December 20. The university exams are overwhelming you, you keep remembering her and you are going to spend the holidays studying, but all that doesn't matter because Camcrical Chornicles has uploaded a new video. You are happy
You know that between 1534 and 1560 the acts of supremacy and the suppression acts dissolved many churches and monasteries, that could explain most of the losses you see.
Nedelec laouen kenvroaz! Thank you so much for all the work you are doing by keeping the memory of these places. It's quite sad to think that these places beloved by whole communities are now left as the door of a barn or the rock filled corner of a field. Nine saints, that's a lot. I thought the record was held the seven saints church we have in britanny (cool place btw, standing on a massive dolmen). What would be the reason for this abandonment? Is it related to the change from roman catholicism to protestantism? Did the congregates of these parishes left them for the bigger churches in nearby towns?
You should combine this with another UK mystery. The Carta Marina is a map from the 1500s depicting northen Europe, including the British isles. On the map, however, 5 islands are featured. Islandia (Iceland), Hetlandia (Shetlands) Orcad (Orkney) and Fare (Faroe). However there are two other islands, one of which is called Tile (The mythical land of Thule?). Interestingly, on Google Earth, in the exact location of the missing two islands, you can see underseas geographic structures that are in similar size and shape to the missing two islands from the Carta Marina. Then there is also the mythical Irish island of Hy-brasil that is found on older maps but the island is gone. What happened? And why does a map from as recent as the 1500s show these islands? Did the islands disappear that recently and we know nothing, or was the map based on older source maps? Does this tie in with the greater mystery of a hypothetical Atlantis (located in the similarly named Atlantic ocean?)? There is also the sunken structures found near Portugals Atlantic islands. And this Thule (Tile), what is this strange land? The Roman Tacitus wrote about it and there was the Nazi occult group the Thule Society who believed it was real and the mythical homeland of the fabled Hyperboreans. There isn't much to find about this mystery, and I'd love a new video for you: The Mystery of the Missing Islands.
This is why I subscribed to your channel, your obscure history videos. Thank you for looking for lost history like this and bringing this information back.
"I encountered one of my favourite things: a giant list from a long time ago" bro this is the most relatable thing a UA-camr has ever said. All I want to do is to go through books to find giant lists from a long time ago
I'm commenting this before finishing the vid, so idk if he ends up mentioning any of what I'm going to say, but: The placenames of Ynys Môn, and how they've been recorded over the years are a mess. From inventing names that seemed to never have been used, to absolutely horrendous Anglicizations of perfectly sensible Welsh names used by English cartographers- it's genuinely baffling. My hometown, Llangefni, means Curch[land] [by the river] Cefni (Cefni itself means something like 'ridges'). Simple enough. But if you look at the town's website it says that the town used to be called Llangyngar (Church of St. Cyngar, a supposed Prince from either Brycheiniog or what we'd now call Cornwall and Devon) and that it was changed to Llangefni... but if you look at any map of Ynys Môn from any point, it's either listed as Llangefni, or Llangeinwen (Itself misspelled as Llangynewen, Llangynewin, etc), which I think is an old name for a parish which contained Llangefni. Then there are the horrible Anglicizations that basically delete every semblance of being able to understand the etymologies of certain names: Kirghiog Llaghhiillet Llanuehill Lleaghgunserwyr Like, none if this means anything to me as a fluent Welsh speaker who's lived here his whole life. Mae'r petha 'ma'n wallgo This is why preserving Welsh placenames is so important- we lose so much if we just give them up Also, fun fact, that Ercagn would be Modern Welsh Ergaen. Llanfair yn nin tryfol makes perfect sense. After D mutates to N in certsin circumstances, so Yn Dinas Bangor should be Yn ninas Bangor. Llanfair yn nin tryfor = the church of mary in the fort/city of Tryfor (tryfor could be tre mawr, or tre môr)
I think it would be ‘Llanfair yn Nhyn Dryfol’ because of the nasal mutation, explaining the original appearance of ‘nin’ in the book. Funnily enough, if it was spelled with an ‘i’ instead of a ‘y’ it would translate as “the church of St Mary up Dryfol’s arse” in modern Welsh
That final speech was absolutely incredible. It is so sad that these places that were once so central to community life fell into abeyance and in some cases were obliterated from both physical existence and memory. Llanfair yn Tyn Dryfol was once a place of christenings, marriages, funerals and prayers, and for a brief moment you have revived it. You have done a service here. Edit: 10:10 has an extremely fascinating energy
@CambrianChronicles For real though, you should set your videos to release on the 3 or 4 minutes not the 00's... This way you are still in the list if the phone was unattended and 9 other channels they are subscribed to dropped videos on the hour or half hour...
In terms of editing and production value, I think this video here is one of your best yet! Such an atmosphere Cambrian chronicles provides, I feel like im watching a movie.
Man, I _love_ these vids you produce. Thank you for sharing your peculiar hobby with us, it's fascinating, and your sense of humor and gravity really elevate the presentation to the next level
You keep on finding topics of interest!!! I was worried you might eventually run out of curious things to stumble upon, but Welsh history seems to be beautifully rich in obscure details. Yay!
if you'd like to read up on a medieval welsh church with a ridiculous excess of sourcing, i have something for you - st melangell's church in powys. has a lot of fascinating history and folklore attached to it. i wrote the featured-status wikipedia article on the church, as well as those on its patron saint and her hagiography. love your videos! :)
There is something particularly emotional about these small finds. When you hear the names of these small churches now wiped away by later generations, its a very unique feeling. To be proud an pleased to have caught a piece of history just before its vanished, sad to realise just how much has been lost to time and the odd and eerie sensation of being some of the few people to remember that whole communities of people even existed. And on top of it all a reminder of how easy it is to collectively forget or ignore history. All these churches, representing thousands of people, thousands of lives, now nothing more than an obscure name on a map. Suffice to say that people like Cambrian Chronicles are invaluable and always underappreciated.
2:40 You cant just say 37, and not expect us to count it. if the bottom text is the full title of The church plate of Radnorshire it's 37 words in total. So you only shortened it by 32 words Someone's probably already pointed this out.
All right, it is confirmed: Wales it is, withouth any questions and doubts, a fantasy world filled with secrets. Only the Welsh and the Irish can achieve such levels of worldbuilding.
I've been reading MacLeod's 'Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld' and, although it's not about old churches/chapels, the 'name corruption' issue when identifying ancient Irish/Scottish/Welsh deities in old texts comes up a lot. I enjoyed your description of the quest to find these 'missing' churches. To me that is what makes history interesting - certainly the results matter but the way we get there, and the uncertainties historians have to juggle in doing so, are more important. Thanks for taking such a niche topic and making a fascinating video about it. Look forward to more 'bass-boosted ASMR' from you in the future.
The more I learn about Welsh history, the more convinced I am that Wales is secretly a gateway to the lands of the fae: 1. Missing Kingdoms, Seas, Churches 2. A Man fighting sharks 3. Cat Laws during the Medieval period 4. An Irish King in Wales It's so bizarre, yet so intriquing that I think Wales should be the first thing I study when studying the Medieval period
As always, I found this quite informative! Now, I know about six lost churches in Anglesey: some buried, others demolished, others in ruins. I don't think I would have ever found out about these buildings, if not for your hobby of looking through antique documents. If it's any reassurance, I think modern society is more reverent of its history than those that inhabited said history, so I don't think your graveyard will go missing. Also, I found the Gould portrait at 10:11 and the upright dog at 13:54 quite amusing! Thanks for the video!
this video was amazing!! this is the sort of deep shit that makes me want to study history in the first place. i like to imagine what the people who’s world centred around these forgotten churches would think about this video. i like to think they’d appreciate the fact we’re still thinking about them, still saying their names. history is crazy man
Thanks for watching, everyone. I’ve been messing around with some microphone settings, and talking in a more natural cadence, so I apologise if this sounds like a bass-boosted ASMR or something, but hopefully it sounds better than the last videos.
Also, unfortunately almost none of the churches featured have any photos... except for Eglwys Ederyn. They appear to be copyrighted though, so while I couldn't include them in the video, you can see a picture of the excavation of the cemetery here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43589/images?term=Eglwys%20Edern
Diolch!
that's ok, I use your videos to help me sleep anyways
Likely all those churches are still around, just that the stone was repurposed into walls, fencing and such over time, as they became parts of later built houses in the direct area around the site.
The video sounds great :)
I love it! I get caught up in similar endeavors myself, but since it’s the US, it’s looking back decades more than centuries. I can really appreciate the feeling of finding something like an old cemetery or ghost town and wondering when the last time was it used, maintained, thought about…Well done sir! 🫡
Any chance you could share that manuscript? Im wondering if the potential Church site on the slope below Bangor University that we're gonna try to excavate at some point is on there
When we needed him most, our resident Welsh carbon monoxide ignorer came through with another video.
@@realKitJones I forgot about the carbon monoxide, that certainly explains all the hallucinations
"I've been losing my mind recently."
And that's why we watch you.
lol my first thoughts when I heard that were “we know” & “me too”
The shortest video in the series but a concise update. See you in 3 months.
Whenever I feel the need to get a history lesson with a touch of existential dread, I go straight to Cambrian.
I love that my favorite UA-cam channel is ran by a Welsh lovecraftian deity that teaches me about Welsh history, locations, people and existential dread
@@SenkouNoMahimeEne thank you, I think that’s the best description anyone has ever given me!
That explain's Tolkien's Nameless Things 😅
Dont forget deadbeat dad!
There is a celtic god by the name of Nodens that is a fusion of celtic deities names that would later be made into an Elder God in the Dreamcycle stories
Wow true
Thank you for doing this, you are actively preserving history that would otherwise be forgotten. I am so glad you do these things. thank you.
@bowencalder4268 thank you too, it wouldn’t be possible if people weren’t interested in watching and learning
I've done it a few times, but for preservation's sake, I also encourage others to put this information up in Wikipedias and other places as well, having all this on a single video on a fickle website like UA-cam is just one point of failure away from losing it all over again. Better yet, if anyone lives in the region and is particularly taken by the idea of preserving this information, make a plaque or something and install them at the sites (with permission ofc).
As a French-Canadian from southern Ontario, I’m not sure why the history of lost churches and chapels in Wales from the 16th century is so profoundly important to me but I’m glad it is
10:07 Gotta love that S. Baring-Gould is a certified analog horror creature
indeed
@@kingpresiden I occasionally get comments saying he’s apparently quite famous in the folklore world, which is funny because to me he’s just a little analogue horror creature
@@CambrianChronicles Is he the same S(abine) Baring-Gould who wrote Onward Christian Soldiers? I may have asked this on another of your videos, I can't remember
Yes, he was a vicar and wrote several hymns and translated carols from other countries. He had a great interest in folklore and ancient legends.
If anyone wonders why so many farms are built ontop of these chapels/churches. In the west of Ireland (where I am from) planning permission is extremely hard for new buildings so that it doesn't "spoil the natural beauty of the landscape" aka pay the planning board a bribe (I'm serious). So what people do is that they buy a site with a ruin and then build their house out of that ruin, since it already exists as a building it is a lot easier to get planning permission compared to a new build. This means that lots of houses and farms in the west of Ireland are built on top of ruins, in one case I was talking to one woman who wanted to preserve the stonework of the old cottage but the builders ended up collapsing the walls in on the cottage to form the foundation of the house... (This was back in the 1980s).
For any farm houses older than the 1950s (when Ireland had a great push to make sure everyone had proper modern houses) it was just a case of buildings going where the land is good. Aka a chapel was built there because the ground was good, so after it was ruined a farmer would build his house with that stone on that spot because it was a good spot.
It's the opposite in Hungary: sites of ruins (especially medieval, we don't have a lot of those thanks to the Ottomans) are almost always protected, you are not allowed to build over them.
@@OCinneide ah that’s very interesting, thank you for the info.
There’s definitely a lot of rebuilding out of ruins in Wales, I’ve read several antiquarians in the 1800s complaining about houses, walls, and barns being built out of old stone foundations, and I imagine that plays an equally important part
@@CambrianChronicles There's a legend from Lough Ree in Roscommon about a quaker in the 1800s who moved onto one of the islands in the lake. When building his house he decided to take the corner stone of a chapel that had become a ruin on the island. That night the wildlife on the island turned against him, his horse that he brought to the island turned on him and went wild forcing him to put the horse down. Suposedly there were cattle on the island as well and they, along with a storm, destroyed the Quaker's cabin on the island and forced him to flee back to the mainland.
The information on all of this is really sparse, I don't even know if it is true. What I retold is what I've heard from local historians and from information beside the island. Whenever I search it online it just says the locals call it "Quaker Island" because a Quaker owned it in the 1800s but it's name is Inchcleraun officially because of the OS mapping guys. I know you only do Wales but if you ever want to do something in Ireland I think it's obscure enough that it would be fun for you to uncover what the actual history behind it.
@CambrianChronicles For a modern day example of this, watch Clarksons Farm. Him trying to build a shed on his own property was a nightmare.
@@OCinneide That sounds like a hogwash 'morality' tale. The only way I can see that being in any way true is if something did in fact spook the guy's livestock, and the locals inferred a causation from his use of materials from the chapel. It might have been a joke, it might have been a pastor trying to keep his flock away from the heathens. But yeah. Press F to doubt its literal truth.
It must have felt great being able to pretty confidently pin these lost churches on the map. Banger video as always!
@@ChrispyP It was! Very frustrating to start with when I couldn’t find anything, but it was really cool to be able to find these old places
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That’s what you think…
Cambrian Chronicles returns with a spooky video for the spookiest of seasons
Thank you, not as spooky as a future one I have planned
Very interesting video. Thank you. Now I'll watch it again. 🗺️ 🔍❤ 🏴. xxx
Ah yes, the spookiest season of the year... and I'm not just talking about bloody tax time!
Christmas?
@@CambrianChronicles I look forward to it!
Time to drop everything, new Cambrian Chronicles upload.
Instructions not to be read if you’re holding your newborn baby
@@CambrianChronicles*instructions meant to be read loudly and proudly, especially when holding a newborn baby
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@@CambrianChronicles Probably should have said that sooner…
Well, medieval Welsh History isn’t a hobby I ever thought I’d have, but here we are.
@@johntr5964 glad to hear!
I have always liked the history of more remote people a bit more. Maybe because everybody know about William the Conqueror, but I want to learn more and new stuffs. The Welsh the Sogdians, the Tocharians, temple cities in Hellenistic anatolia and that's things we can know something about.
I always wondered how cities looked before the eventual sprawl of civilization took over, but never stopped to think about how much of our nature actually hides the past. Fascinating!
@@huntertrum3658 it’s pretty interesting, the soil hides so much, but even a small forest can shelter a lot. There’s a few castle ruins in Wales that can’t be seen from the air because they’re covered, I think I got pretty lucky in this video since all of the sites are in the open
@@CambrianChronicles The research you are doing is needed, you might just end up in textbooks. But yes, you are absolutely right about how just a little foliage can shelter alot.
I live in Louisiana, and it's astonishing how much buried history is already there. A few days ago I stumbled upon an archeological state landmark. It's an "earthwork" made by the Union during the American Civil War. Where was this? Next to a dog adoption center in a busy part of town.
As an American, it's very humbling to think about how much history there is already in my country, but also little it is compared to the average European, and how miniscule it is compared to the history that isn't even recorded from the continent that I live on.
@@huntertrum3658 I'm from Boston, MA and I used to give walking tours in the city downtown. I always joked with my visitors that we Bostonians would visit California, see their oldest buildings from the 1800s, and go "that's cute." Then Europeans would come visit us, see our oldest buildings from the 1700s, and go "that's cute." Then Egyptians would visit Europe, see their oldest buildings from the early 1000s (or whenever) and go "that's cute." 😂
I was waiting for this video! I'm on my own 'lost church journey' in my own country Hungary, it is so exciting to see that I'm not alone in my obsessions.
@@Vizivirag I’m glad to hear, best of luck with your research!
És ez pontosan mit takar a te kutatásodban?
@@Gil-games középkori elveszett templomokat keresek, először térképen, de majd terepen is
@@CambrianChronicles thank you!^^
@@Vizivirag that's awesome. But do you have enough written source to research?
As a Floridian this information was vital to me and I enjoyed every single minute of this video same as always!
its kinda sad hearing how much history is just... lost forever
I can say very confidently that I know no one who creates anything like what you do. Thank you for existing and doing this channel
WAKE UP THE BEST EVER UA-cam CHANNEL TO EXIST HAS UPLOADED
@@Felix_Carvalho haha thank you, I hope you liked the video!
I dropped studying midterms for this. (Worth it)
@ZorroOfTheLaw glad to hear it was worth it lol
2:22 It's that dang picture again. Hope we'll find out soon what the deal is with it. There is too much hype!
Thanks a lot, now I will have nightmares of an S. Baring-Gould zombie chasing me.
I appreciate these videos as a fellow person who likes old lists of things
Your videos hit a special niche for me, interesting enough to put on at work and just listen to but also calming enough to fall asleep too. Ive watched damn near your whole channel now... more please, my sanity demands it
Fascinating. I just had to pull up the Lidar image for the Llanfair yn Tyn Dryfol field (SH4071). There appears to be the outline of a rectangular(ish) enclosure on the eastern side of the field (south end is by the kink in the field boundary, where the paler grass is in the google earth image)
Therapist: The living portrait of S. Baring-Gould isn't real, it can't hurt you.
The living portrait of S. Baring-Gould:
I discovered your channel 6 days ago. I have now watched ALL of your content. 10/10
I clicked on this video within the first 17 seconds but had to leave a few minutes later, worst mistake of my life lol. I know you might not see this Mr Chronicles, but I just wanted to say that your channel has quickly become arguably my favorite channel on UA-cam, I watch every one of your videos religiously, both on this acc and my dads, and this channel provides me a sense of wonder and amazement I can scarcely get anywhere else. You make my favorite subject all the more enjoyable, and even though there’s no reason whatsoever that I should logically be interested in Welsh history, I think that’s a tribute to how amazing this channel is, because it has me hooked on Welsh history like heroin. I love the style and the way all the information is layed out and it’s just a delight every time. It also inspired me to start learning Welsh, and while I’m admittedly not the best, it’s really interesting and fun and I’m having a blast. This channel will forever be one of my favorites.
Diolch, Mr. Chronicles
Field names - modern or old, such as on 18th/19th century enclosure maps - can be useful in deducing locations which are nowadays abandoned.
Excellent video, as always.
NEW CAMBRIAN CHRONICLES VIDEO I’M HERE I’M HERE
I hope you liked it!
Dear Cam,
Like anyone from the country, I grew up around a lot of llans, and just wanted to know a bit more about how a llan was 'made', so I went to wiki. Please investigate the Welsh history around the sanctification of a site to make it into a space dedicated to a saint, because I was looking into it just now and found a real corker on the wiki page for Llan (placename) and now I really want to know if something this nutty is true.
"The founder of a new llan was obliged to reside at the site and to eat only once a day, each time taking a bit of bread and an egg and drinking only water and milk. This lasted for forty days, Sundays excepted, after which the land was considered sanctified for ever."
If we, as suggested, except those Sundays (4 Sundays per 40 day dinings), we are left with a possible 22,680 days of a meagre egg sandwich with a cup of milk (or about 62 years - based on the estimate given on wiki of 630+ llans, which I just settled at 630 for). A great burden carried by so few to give us holiness. I can't help but imagine there are some really silly personal and political histories wrapped up in this, because it is such an odd ritual.
e; Aahahahahahaha I just checked the cited reference on Wiki - you'll love it
Right after I got out of work a new video drops, while I was already on a Cambrian chronicles binge? hells yeah!
Hope you like it!
I love you Cambrian Chronicles
I’d love to see a part 2 or even a series of this
@@kobblestonemc thank you, I’m sure there are many more missing churches in the list. Ynys Môn was easier since there were so many, but if people like this video then I’ll gladly keep looking
new video from my favorite teacher of a random topic i really care about just dropped !!!
Haha, I hope you enjoy it
@@CambrianChronicles it was really good dude your microphone sounds way better
Usually I write in Welsh but, those last words you uttered were the pinnacle of us as humans, caught up in our own memory, only to be soon forgotten by our descendants. They were a golden choice of wording, da iawn am hyna, Fydd na fardd i ddod allan ohono chdi eto!
Great Video once again, cadw'r gwaith da i fyny!
0:19 this is my new favourite quote, i shared it with my dad and we were both giggling about it for a while
You might be able to automate some of the checks using some programming. Lookign for strings that are close matches using a string distance function. For example Python has a library called difflib that has an object called SequenceMatcher that returns a ratio from 0 to 1, where 1 indicates an exact match and zero a completely different word. Oracle also has some functions that can help with something called Levenshtein distance. These examples are like fuzzy text (string of characters) matching. Running one list (your ancient one) against a list of known places today might give you some that pop out as near enough to check manually.
Would love to see this implemented, although I have to admit that a lot of the appeal of these videos (at least to me) is the unhinged lengths he goes to.
i love your videos so much, even though i dont know much of anything about Wales. you have so much passion and interest in the topic that it makes me interested as well. you're correcting centuries old errors and shining light on the true past. i cant wait for you next video!
I am incredibly impressed how funny you can make welsh history. I mean we do seem to have similar ideas of interesting hobbies, as reading a 16th century historical list absolutely sounds like a good time to me, but I'm not even european and generally find European history to be very uninteresting compared to the rest of the world, making me enjoy learning about wales is quite an impressive feat
CC: "Llanedeyrn does not exist".
Cardiffians: "thank God! It was all a terrible nightmare".
This gave me a laugh
3 minutes ago I'm so glad I stayed up before sleeping tonight
I hope the video was worth the wait lol
@CambrianChronicles You know it was lol
Last time I was this early these churches were still here
Banger
Bro watching from 1566
@@CambrianChronicles glad to help with the video (I wrote the manuscript)
@@Eugene-tm8fm much appreciated!
😂
"I have been losing my mind recently"
always a good start to a youtube video lol
A midnight upload! I can fall asleep to this!
The liminal space vibe of your videos is so on point, it really highlights the "lost" nature of the topics you cover. I love your work!
The existential crisis at the end is a nice touch. Love this video
I have the flu and so I was really excited to see that the video I dropped so that I had something decent to watch on UA-cam and then you go and open it with humorous comments about reading 16th century manuscripts and I had a coughing fit so I'm hoping that the rest of it is just as entertaining 😂
Haha thank you, hope you enjoy the vid and get well soon
02:22 I nearly missed this, but you cannot elude me for long Cambrian Chronicler…
10:08 What do we have here? Another anomaly?
14:00 This feels like I’m on a spiral into insanity furiously scribbling futile notes to ward off future visitors of the dangers to come.
Poignant ending, delightful turn of phrases as always (83,000 days, wearing a suit of skin, waking up on a bed of them) especially emphasised where you’re watching it half asleep, delirious at midnight soiling your pants when the despondent soundtrack once again rears its ugly head. 10/10 lost my mind by proxy, would definitely recommend.
How many times have you caught that image? The one of Llewellyn's cave.
Llewelyn's Cave. It's gotta be some sort of ARG, right?
@@raritania7581 I first started searching for it after watching the end credits of The Internet’s Flag That Doesn’t Exist, but i think the first time Cambrian used the image explicitly was in the start of Wikipedia’s King Who Doesn’t Exists, then you can see two brief appearances of the image in The Royal Title That No One Can Remember and most recent - excluding this video, was in The Conquest Written Out of History. You could probably find my comment lurking somewhere under the videos with timestamps of each of the appearances. This one was particularly fun because I nearly missed it since it’s only a one second frame compared to the others, but I think my brain has imprinted the image of that cave into the back of my skull or something.
@@AutisticEditz13 Not sure if Cambria has any other plans for them but i think it’s less of an ARG and more of an easter egg for long time viewers of his, but I’m not opposed if he made it one haha
@@raritania7581 I first started searching for it when I finished The Internet’s Flag That Doesn’t Exist’s end credits with the first mention of Cadwaldr in the channel, but i think the first appearance of the cave was an explicit one in the beginning of Wikipedia’s King Who Doesn’t Exists. Then you can see two brief appearances in The Royal Title That No One Can Remember and the latest one - excluding this video, was in The Conquest Written Out of History. You could probably find my comments with the timestamps for each of the appearances lurking under the comment sections.
Nadolig llawen! thanks for the christmas present
I love how thoroughly you research your subjects ❤
Great video my beloved
No PERSONALLY taking a trip to Llandinam to photograph the door yourself?? You're getting sloppy!
I kid. I love this channel. Thanks so much for being so counterintuitively interesting
@@IreneIguanas lol that would’ve been fun, I’ll consider it if I cover some more obscure ruins in the future
Time to head back to a past nobody even remembers with Cambrian Chronicles again, good shit
If Baring Gould would have been born today, he would have been a welsh history youtuber.
time to relish another one of your fascinating history lessons... i enjoy your videos so much!
It is 0:00 am on Friday, December 20. The university exams are overwhelming you, you keep remembering her and you are going to spend the holidays studying, but all that doesn't matter because Camcrical Chornicles has uploaded a new video. You are happy
You know that between 1534 and 1560 the acts of supremacy and the suppression acts dissolved many churches and monasteries, that could explain most of the losses you see.
Nedelec laouen kenvroaz!
Thank you so much for all the work you are doing by keeping the memory of these places.
It's quite sad to think that these places beloved by whole communities are now left as the door of a barn or the rock filled corner of a field.
Nine saints, that's a lot. I thought the record was held the seven saints church we have in britanny (cool place btw, standing on a massive dolmen).
What would be the reason for this abandonment? Is it related to the change from roman catholicism to protestantism? Did the congregates of these parishes left them for the bigger churches in nearby towns?
Nice video.
Thank you!
Babe, wake up! There’s a new Cambrian Chronicles video!
Hope you enjoy it!
You should combine this with another UK mystery. The Carta Marina is a map from the 1500s depicting northen Europe, including the British isles.
On the map, however, 5 islands are featured.
Islandia (Iceland), Hetlandia (Shetlands) Orcad (Orkney) and Fare (Faroe). However there are two other islands, one of which is called Tile (The mythical land of Thule?). Interestingly, on Google Earth, in the exact location of the missing two islands, you can see underseas geographic structures that are in similar size and shape to the missing two islands from the Carta Marina.
Then there is also the mythical Irish island of Hy-brasil that is found on older maps but the island is gone.
What happened? And why does a map from as recent as the 1500s show these islands? Did the islands disappear that recently and we know nothing, or was the map based on older source maps?
Does this tie in with the greater mystery of a hypothetical Atlantis (located in the similarly named Atlantic ocean?)? There is also the sunken structures found near Portugals Atlantic islands.
And this Thule (Tile), what is this strange land? The Roman Tacitus wrote about it and there was the Nazi occult group the Thule Society who believed it was real and the mythical homeland of the fabled Hyperboreans.
There isn't much to find about this mystery, and I'd love a new video for you:
The Mystery of the Missing Islands.
I absolutely love this channel 💕
This is why I subscribed to your channel, your obscure history videos. Thank you for looking for lost history like this and bringing this information back.
"I encountered one of my favourite things: a giant list from a long time ago" bro this is the most relatable thing a UA-camr has ever said. All I want to do is to go through books to find giant lists from a long time ago
Yes! This video was awesome.
Also, great work finding all those lost churches!
Thr origami swan gets me Everytime
I'm commenting this before finishing the vid, so idk if he ends up mentioning any of what I'm going to say, but:
The placenames of Ynys Môn, and how they've been recorded over the years are a mess. From inventing names that seemed to never have been used, to absolutely horrendous Anglicizations of perfectly sensible Welsh names used by English cartographers- it's genuinely baffling.
My hometown, Llangefni, means Curch[land] [by the river] Cefni (Cefni itself means something like 'ridges'). Simple enough. But if you look at the town's website it says that the town used to be called Llangyngar (Church of St. Cyngar, a supposed Prince from either Brycheiniog or what we'd now call Cornwall and Devon) and that it was changed to Llangefni... but if you look at any map of Ynys Môn from any point, it's either listed as Llangefni, or Llangeinwen (Itself misspelled as Llangynewen, Llangynewin, etc), which I think is an old name for a parish which contained Llangefni.
Then there are the horrible Anglicizations that basically delete every semblance of being able to understand the etymologies of certain names:
Kirghiog
Llaghhiillet
Llanuehill
Lleaghgunserwyr
Like, none if this means anything to me as a fluent Welsh speaker who's lived here his whole life.
Mae'r petha 'ma'n wallgo
This is why preserving Welsh placenames is so important- we lose so much if we just give them up
Also, fun fact, that Ercagn would be Modern Welsh Ergaen.
Llanfair yn nin tryfol makes perfect sense. After D mutates to N in certsin circumstances, so Yn Dinas Bangor should be Yn ninas Bangor.
Llanfair yn nin tryfor = the church of mary in the fort/city of Tryfor (tryfor could be tre mawr, or tre môr)
I think it would be ‘Llanfair yn Nhyn Dryfol’ because of the nasal mutation, explaining the original appearance of ‘nin’ in the book.
Funnily enough, if it was spelled with an ‘i’ instead of a ‘y’ it would translate as “the church of St Mary up Dryfol’s arse” in modern Welsh
You're damn good at what you do.
Always a pleasure to watch.
That final speech was absolutely incredible. It is so sad that these places that were once so central to community life fell into abeyance and in some cases were obliterated from both physical existence and memory. Llanfair yn Tyn Dryfol was once a place of christenings, marriages, funerals and prayers, and for a brief moment you have revived it. You have done a service here.
Edit: 10:10 has an extremely fascinating energy
Can’t believe I had to wait 1 minute before it showed up on my feed
The UA-cam algorithm oppresses me personally like that
@CambrianChronicles For real though, you should set your videos to release on the 3 or 4 minutes not the 00's... This way you are still in the list if the phone was unattended and 9 other channels they are subscribed to dropped videos on the hour or half hour...
**slams mug on desk, dying instantly**
•from þe grave• “ANOÞER!”
I wonder if the Diocese would have records, perhaps some old church ladies would be able to help you dig stuff up.
All the best hobbies are strange and unnecessary. Keep reading those manuscripts.
In terms of editing and production value, I think this video here is one of your best yet! Such an atmosphere Cambrian chronicles provides, I feel like im watching a movie.
Man, I _love_ these vids you produce. Thank you for sharing your peculiar hobby with us, it's fascinating, and your sense of humor and gravity really elevate the presentation to the next level
I dont even really care about the exact content of your videos, im absolutely captivated by the level of detail and research you do for your videos.
You keep on finding topics of interest!!! I was worried you might eventually run out of curious things to stumble upon, but Welsh history seems to be beautifully rich in obscure details. Yay!
if you'd like to read up on a medieval welsh church with a ridiculous excess of sourcing, i have something for you - st melangell's church in powys. has a lot of fascinating history and folklore attached to it. i wrote the featured-status wikipedia article on the church, as well as those on its patron saint and her hagiography. love your videos! :)
There is something particularly emotional about these small finds. When you hear the names of these small churches now wiped away by later generations, its a very unique feeling. To be proud an pleased to have caught a piece of history just before its vanished, sad to realise just how much has been lost to time and the odd and eerie sensation of being some of the few people to remember that whole communities of people even existed. And on top of it all a reminder of how easy it is to collectively forget or ignore history. All these churches, representing thousands of people, thousands of lives, now nothing more than an obscure name on a map. Suffice to say that people like Cambrian Chronicles are invaluable and always underappreciated.
Another great and incredibly interesting piece of research as always
2:40
You cant just say 37, and not expect us to count it.
if the bottom text is the full title of The church plate of Radnorshire it's 37 words in total. So you only shortened it by 32 words
Someone's probably already pointed this out.
All right, it is confirmed: Wales it is, withouth any questions and doubts, a fantasy world filled with secrets. Only the Welsh and the Irish can achieve such levels of worldbuilding.
Great topic, great video 👍
Excellent video as always.
I've been reading MacLeod's 'Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld' and, although it's not about old churches/chapels, the 'name corruption' issue when identifying ancient Irish/Scottish/Welsh deities in old texts comes up a lot.
I enjoyed your description of the quest to find these 'missing' churches. To me that is what makes history interesting - certainly the results matter but the way we get there, and the uncertainties historians have to juggle in doing so, are more important.
Thanks for taking such a niche topic and making a fascinating video about it. Look forward to more 'bass-boosted ASMR' from you in the future.
I divorced my wife because she interrupted me while I was watching my favorite surrealist horror Welsh history UA-camr.
Man I just love every video you put out
Love this channel.
This is truly beautiful work.
been a while i've been here, nice to come listen to someone researching about a culture i'm not even part of
first time i'm early for a cambrian chronicles!!! great as always
The more I learn about Welsh history, the more convinced I am that Wales is secretly a gateway to the lands of the fae:
1. Missing Kingdoms, Seas, Churches
2. A Man fighting sharks
3. Cat Laws during the Medieval period
4. An Irish King in Wales
It's so bizarre, yet so intriquing that I think Wales should be the first thing I study when studying the Medieval period
As always, I found this quite informative! Now, I know about six lost churches in Anglesey: some buried, others demolished, others in ruins. I don't think I would have ever found out about these buildings, if not for your hobby of looking through antique documents. If it's any reassurance, I think modern society is more reverent of its history than those that inhabited said history, so I don't think your graveyard will go missing.
Also, I found the Gould portrait at 10:11 and the upright dog at 13:54 quite amusing!
Thanks for the video!
I honestly love your videos. I learn SO MUCH about Welsh history and you do it so well, keeping it clear and entertaining. Great job! 👏🏻
I don’t care at all about Welsh history. But also somehow I do?? Absolutely brilliant storytelling from one of my favourite channels.
Really liking the eerie, existential feel that your videos are taking recently, keep up the amazing work :D
Making pasta and got this notification. Hell yeah!
this video was amazing!! this is the sort of deep shit that makes me want to study history in the first place. i like to imagine what the people who’s world centred around these forgotten churches would think about this video. i like to think they’d appreciate the fact we’re still thinking about them, still saying their names. history is crazy man