Rosie’s Week in Pictures – February 2026
01/04/2026
By Admin2
Engaging young people with heritage can be difficult, so we were delighted to welcome Rosie for 4 days of work experience in February 2026. This is Rosie’s Blog: Day 1 The day started with a quick tour of the parkland, beginning outside the Carmarthenshire museum in Jenkinson’s Garden, which I learned would once have been …
Tag: Bishops Palace
History
Posted: 12/06/2021 by Admin
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.
Category: Featured Tabs, History Tags: bishops, Bishops Palace, garden history, history
The Old Bishop’s Palace
Posted: 06/10/2015 by Admin
The connection between the Bishops of St Davids and Abergwili goes back over 700 years. It began at the end of the thirteenth century when Bishop Thomas Bek established a church college of 21 priests in Abergwili. This was at a time when the church owned extensive lands in the area and Abergwili was one …
Category: Bishop's Palace Tags: Bishops Palace, history