Bibliography

Publications which mention Ruperra

  • Malcolm Airs The Buildings of Britain, Tudor and Jacobean Barrie and Jenkins 1982
  • Cadw Register of Landscapes, Parks & Gardens of Special Historical Interest in Wales. Icomos UK 1998
  • Alexander Cresswell The Silent Houses of Britain Macdonald & Co 1991
  • G T Clark Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae 1886
  • John B Hilling The Historic Architecture of Wales Cardiff 1976
  • Thomas Lloyd The Lost Houses of Wales SAVE Britain's Heritage 1986
  • Benjamin Malkin The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales London 1804
  • John Newman The Buildings of Wales, Glamorgan Penguin 1995
  • Roger Phillips Tredegar the Self Publishing Company 1990
  • Gwynedd O Pierce Place-Names in Glamorgan Merton Priory press 2002
  • RCAHM (W) An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, Vol IV Part I, The Greater Houses HMSO 1981
  • RCAHM (W) An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, Vol III Part Ia, Early Castles
  • Peter Smith Houses of the Welsh Countyside London 1975
  • Time Tracks, Caerphilly county borough council's heritage trail 2001 HMSO 1981

Other Reading

  • Jim Arbury & Sally Pinbury Pears Wells and Winter 1997
  • Robert Bevan-Jones The Ancient Yew Windgather press 2002
  • Collins New Naturalists Series HarperCollins
  • Penny David A Garden Lost in Time Weidenfield and Nicholson 1999
  • Mark Girouard Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House Yale Univ. Press 1983
  • Cyril Hart British Trees in Colour Michael Joseph 1973
  • William Linnard Woods and Forests, a History Gomer Press 2000
  • Pamela A Sambrook The Country House Servant Sutton Publishing 1999
  • Simon Schama Landscape and Memory Fontana Press 1996
  • Tim Smit The Lost Gardens of Heligan Victor Gollanz 1997
  • Paul Sterry Complete British Wildlife Collins

Acknowledgements to the RCAHM(Wales) for some of the drawings and photographs. Most were given by local people and relatives of servants at the Castle. The photograph of the Castle today (with cows in the foreground) is by Richard Kenward ABIPP of Abergavenny. Some nature pictures are taken from Collins' Complete British Wildlife.

Michael John Day, a student from UWIC, designed this website.