Travel Guide Nevern (Nanhyfer)

A place considered very important by the chiefs of Cemais, the Welsh Celts. Nevern was also a place of pilgrimage to St. David's. There is still a pilgrim's cross on the way up the hill. The village was later the base of the Normans. After their departure for Newport, Nevern's importance diminished considerably.Today it is a very pleasant village on the edge of the estuary, where stream, forest and flowers mingle. In front of the church, a strange construction once very common but now almost disappeared in Wales, "the Mounting Block": a sort of small staircase that goes up and down, leading nowhere, but which allowed the newlyweds to ride their horses, followed by the guests.