THE KENFIG SOCIETY - CYMDEITHAS CYNFFIG

 

In the dunes of Kenfig you will find the forlorn remains of a castle poking out of the sand. This is all that is left of the once thriving town of Kenfig.

In this book, the first in the series of Kenfig Folk Barrie Griffiths tells the story of how the town was founded by Anglo-Norman invaders, how it (mostly) withstood the attacks of the local Welsh, and how it was eventually swallowed up by the sand.

This book also digs deeper to uncover some of the mysteries buried in the sand: Why did the town and castle of Kenfig become such a focus for Welsh resentment? How did it survive despite being the target of at least nine attacks upon it in less than two centuries?

Most important of all perhaps—how, why and when, having survived these repeated attempts to obliterate it, was it subsequently abandoned beneath the sand dune