WILD WALES
Contents Travellers in Wales
The Journey
Llangollen and Encounters with the Welsh Language
Travelling South ...
Conclusion Travellers in Wales
This treatise is follow-on from the previous article on Giraldus Cambrensis, which dealt with the journey made around Wales in the company of Archbishop Baldwyn of Canterbury in the year 1188.
George Borrow made a similar journey around Wales in 1854, mostly on foot.
The traveller and writer, George Borrow (1803 - 1881) was born in Dumpling Green, a small hamlet on the outskirts of East Dereham, 15 miles west of Norwich of a Cornish father and Norfolk mother. He was educated in Edinburgh High School and in Norwich at the King Edward VI Grammar School in the Cathedral Close.
In Norwich, on the hills of Mousehold, above the Cathedral, he spent time in the company of the gypsies. It was probably from listening to their tales of wandering that his urge to travel came.
Education over, he was articled to a solicitor. During his apprenticeship, he edited Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence (1825) | |
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