On our return home from our stay in Cardigan we stopped at Cenarth to visit the falls and the bridge. A Romantic, harmonic coupling of the nature and man. Of Romanticism and Enlightenment. And a lovely thing is this bridge, the work of David Evans, built between 1785-7. David was the son of William Edwards, Methodist minister and architect, builder of the famous bridge at Pontypridd. Edwards senior also built the Wychtree Bridge at Morriston which, alas, was shamefully demolished by the council in the late Fifties. These elegant structures are some of the architectural and engineering marvels of not only Wales but the whole Kingdom. It has to be said that the falls, which have attracted any number of artists during the Romantic period and since, were a little quiet the day we were there; it being the end of summer and all that. In full spate, however, they are apparently quite the thing.
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