The Battle of Gower 1136
On the 1st of January1136 a battle took place on Garn Goch Common
which lies between Garden Village and Llewitha .The Battle between the Normans and the Welsh
had many casualties with the report of many bodies being scattered among the
fields.
The Welsh army was
led by the lord of Brycheiniog
(Brecknockshire),
Hywel ap Maredudd
containing men from Brycheiniog and Northern Gŵyr
that despised the Norman rule in Southern Gŵyr. It is alleged that the Normans expected to
meet a small collection of Welsh raiding bands, however the scale of the Welsh
army took them by surprise. In a bloody battle the Welsh army emerged victorious;
the Normans lost around 500 men.
The battle is remembered on a memorial stone erected on the
common and unveiled on 1st March 1986.
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