"... some of the stone walls draped across the hillsides of Snowdonia are among the best preserved and most complex examples of early land division in Europe." (p.83)
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"Some of the oldest hedgebanks, like the gorclawdd in Dinas and some of the ancient cloddiau in Snowdonia, are unsung functional monuments of real antiquity in the landscape, rivalling castles, standing stones and, in some cases, Stonehenge." (p.92)
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"Wales hosts some of the most diverse communities of fungi in the world, in large part because of the high proportion of the country that is covered by unimproved, marginal grassland, not enriched by Fertilisers." (p.135)
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"There are over 225 unambiguous ‘wolf’ place-names in Wales" (p.167)
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