kr236rk Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Hi,I have a copy of an old map from around the early 20th century which shows a village or hamlet called "St.Gilles" (near Mont St-Michel), exactly mid way between Ardevon and Brée on the road connecting these two places. But on modern maps St.Gilles does not show :-o Can anybody help please - what has happened to this village?Many thanks :)Ric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 [quote user="kr236rk"]I have a copy of an old map from around the early 20th century which shows a village or hamlet called "St.Gilles" (near Mont St-Michel), exactly mid way between Ardevon and Brée on the road connecting these two places. But on modern maps St.Gilles does not show :-o Can anybody help please - what has happened to this village?[/quote]If you go to this link:you will see a cluster of buildings which is in the place you suggest. If you then go to the infinitely better geoportail version and play around, you will see that the area associated with this cluster is marked as "St Gilles" on the plan cadastrale.Basically it was probably only ever a small lieu-dit rather than a village, and has now lost any importance that it once had.Edited to make the geoportail link work correctly.RegardsPickles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 There is a St Giles Church in the Vale of Glamorgan on the south coast of Wales.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GilestonPilgrims landed there to travel to the monastry of St Illtud in Llantwit Major (further inland). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonrouge Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Cathy is it St Illtyd? as in Merthyr Tydfil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I don't see that it makes much difference as the one will sound exactly like the other?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kr236rk Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Wow, that's fantastic thanks! :)I am researching the area in an 'armchair' fashion (at the moment).St Giles is the patron saint of deer especially the hind and there are deer links in this part of Normandy/Brittany.Also in Wales there are deer links with Illtyd / Elltydhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Yu8FM2k_VM0J:people.bath.ac.uk/liskmj/living-spring/sourcearchive/ns6/ns6tgh1.htm+Illtyd+stag&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ukso a further link to St Giles might be expected (good one!)BestsRic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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