Please join me on 11th May 2025 at Arthur’s Stone near Hereford, South Wales.
This Neolithic chambered tomb is over 5,000 years old and part of a series of prehistoric monuments in the upper Golden Valley. The chamber was formed of nine upright stones and was once covered by a long earthen mound. According to legend, it was King Arthur’s final resting place, where he battled a rival king or slew a giant.
Related trips include:
- Visit to the ancient coronation stone on 7th May 2025, at Kingston upon Thames in London.
- Visit to the Stone of Scone at Perth Museum. Also visited Scone Abbey, Dunollie Castle and the sacred island of Iona. 14th/15th May 2024
- Visit to Flushing in Cornwall, on 26th June 2023, to locate a property that the McAdam family rented whilst he worked as a ‘re-victualizing’ agent for the navy in the western ports.
- Visit to Falmouth in Cornwall, on 24th April 2023, to make local contacts and find the Flushing address.
- Visit to Bristol, on 24th May 2023, to visit residences in Berkeley Square and Sion Hill along with John Loudon McAdam’s office sites in Park Street and Small Street. Also, a visit to Bristol Cathedral to view a plaque in memory of my 4th Great Grandmother, Gloriana Margaretta McAdam who was buried on 17th February 1825, aged 65.
- Visit to Scotland, on 21st – 23rd February 2023, to visit the ancestral lands of Glenstrae, Glenlochy, Glen Lyon and Glen Orchy along with Loch Awe, the Sauhrie estate and ‘Lagwyne’ in Ayrshire.
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‘I counted John Loudon McAdam, the inventor of the greatest advance in road construction since Roman times, among my ancestors. Their line came down from the 9th century King Alpin, was entitled to wear the clan crest, a crowned lion’s head, and lived by the motto ‘S Rioghal Mo Dhream’, Gaelic for “Royal Is My Race”. They once held the lands of Glenstrae, Glenlochy, Glen Lyon and Glen Orchy, to the west and north of Loch Lomond but clan McGregor lost their lands by ‘legal manipulation’. When outlawed under James’s 2nd of Scotland (1430 – 1460), Adam, a grandson of the chief Gregor McGregor, settled in the lowlands and changed his name to McAdam. The efforts of his descendant, John McAdam, contributed to a network of mail-coach communication and prepared the way for a railway system.’