Hen Galan: why one Welsh community celebrates the new year on 14 January

Eryn White, Reader, Aberystwyth University A small community in Pembrokeshire will be holding its annual new year celebrations on January 14, or Hen Galan as it is known in Welsh. But the residents of Cwm Gwaun near Fishguard are not a fortnight late. Rather, the people of this small wooded hamlet still observe the dates of an old […]

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