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History

Posted: 12/06/2021 by Admin

An older adult wearing an orange shirt walks through a garden, carrying two watering cans, viewed through a stone archway. Lush greenery and sunlight are visible in the background.

The Bishops Park and Gardens is brimming with history.  From the ancient trees which have stood watch here for centuries, to the walled garden which provided exotic food and flowers for the bishop’s table, to the oxbow lake and the shifting landscape of the Tywi Valley flood plain, to the medieval bishops palace which the Park surrounds and the people that lived and worked here.

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The Abergwili Bishops

Posted: 23/10/2015 by Admin

The history of the Abergwili Bishops is intriguing- and goes back over 700 years to the founding of a church college by Bishop Thomas Bek in the late thirteenth century.  It was Bek’s college that would eventually become the Bishop’s Palace in the mid sixteenth century, when successive Bishops were major figures in Welsh and …

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Introducing Connie – Work Placement Student at Bishop’s Park.

01/04/2026

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Engaging young people with heritage can be difficult. Working with students from Swansea University helps us understand how to do that better. This is Connie’s story. “Hi! My name is Connie.  I’m a 21-year-old Public History and Heritage Master’s student at Swansea University, and I’m doing my work placement at Parc Yr Esgob. I am …

Learn More | Dysgwch Mwy “Introducing Connie – Work Placement Student at Bishop’s Park.”
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