Talk:Hendrefoilan

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History

A History Section would be nice, so here are some notes from memory.

The "student village" was originally proposed and constructed in the early 1970's (refs/dates needed) and was created in the area known locally as Hendrefoilan Woods. Initially comprising several low-rise blocks of flats and small shared houses, it was later expanded with more flats, and towards the end of the 1990's the adjoining fields were developed to create the residential housing estate. Swansea Institute (then called the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education (WGIHE)) had a library that was located in an annexe to (what we called) Hendrefoilan House, so the location may have been related to the existing facility.

Around this time the (barely) single track lane that linked Dunvant to Tycoch was largely unknown to anyone but locals so meeting a car coming the oposite way was rare. In the mornings, the little traffic that there was mostly headed towards the town centre, with a natural change in direction for the commute home.

Prior to this, the area that the Hendrefoilan Residential estate now covers was the site of the Llanerch farm, which had lain derelict for many years. Where the wooded areas had been cleared for fields, local kids and walkers made extensive use of the area, especially in times of snow, when the steep valley sides down to the farm formed a natural winter playground.

--Ear1grey 12:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]