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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Stuart Gillespie

Twynholm commemoration marks the loss of Welsh family more than 200 years ago

A special commemoration has taken place in Twynholm to mark the loss of a Welsh family more than 200 years ago.

Elen Cadwalder, her husband Huw Prichard and their five children were making the trip home from Ireland when they died in bad weather near the village in 1816.

They had taken shelter in a gravel pit near Twynholm which collapsed during heavy rain and buried them alive.

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