along almost any main road, any working day in Mid Wales or The Marches, you're likely to see at least one distinctive racing green and yellow liveried Pontrilas Timber truck loaded with logs and heading back to the sawmill, Situated in the village of Pontrilas, roughly half way between Hereford and Abergavenny, this is one of the few surving family owned mills in The Marches still cutting home-grown timber in volume. Like the castles which ranged from Chepstow to Chester, a string of strategically located sawmills used to follow Offa's Dyke along the Welsh Marches; a mill for every Marcher Lordship. Many of these sawmills, such as Monmouth, are lone gone and many others, hav-ing closed their sawlines, now trade as timber merchants only. Pontrilas Timber stands out as one of a few survivors.
展开▼
