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Eryn White, Reader, Aberystwyth University

Hen Galan: why one Welsh community celebrates the new year on January 14

The children of Cwm Gwaun go door to door singing and collecting calennig in 1961. Geoff Charles/National Library of Wales

A small community in Pembrokeshire will be holding its annual new year celebrations on January 14, or Hen Galan as it is known in Welsh.

But the residents of Cwm Gwaun near Fishguard are not a fortnight late. Rather, the people of this small wooded hamlet still observe the dates of an old calendar, which was dispensed with by the rest of Britain more than 250 years ago.

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