History of the Old School

The land was gifted to the church for a School, so that the children of the poor were given an education.

Starting as a ‘Welsh Knot’ school with 44 children, they were not allowed to speak their native language in the school! The children came from the surrounding area, walking from up to an hour away.

In 1908 the church handed over the school to the local government, for it to be run as a National School, where from then on pupils were allowed to speak and be taught in Welsh.

To experience the atmosphere of the ‘Welsh not’ classroom, one can visit such as the Lloyd George museum, locally at Llanystudwy or St Fagans in Cardiff, where children can experience the strict conditions of the day.

When the School closed for the last time in 1967, there were only 4 children in attendance. Each have visited in recent years, as have many from other generations, including two in their nineties.

In 1976 the church sold the school for conversion into a private dwelling.

Finally, in 1991 the Old School started its new life as a Bed and Breakfast.