Remember when the two Wales model, or was it the three, was all the rage. Something about how modern day Wales was still influenced by the division between the Principality and the March. It didn't make much sense to me as anglicisation was always a process not an event.
Anyway this map which I came across in a new book about the March illustrates that things were a bit more complex than could be described by drawing a simple line on a map. The cantrefi which later went to make up Radnorshire stand out as areas in the March which had resisted the Normans for 200 years, often successfully. It says something about Radnorian independence .......... perhaps there is something to be said for drawing lines after all.
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