The site of Crug Hywel played a part in the 'invasion' by Henry tudur, Earl of Richmond in August 1485, on his route to the Battle at Bosworth field.
According to the book 'Visitation of Wales', by Lewys Dunne, lately Bishop of Bangor in 1688 on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I, Volume II, page 51 (in the reprint for Queen Victoria in 1846, the men of Rees ap Thomas, from Carmarthen erected a Standard of Henry Tudor at Crug Hywel to guide the men from Monmouth (under Sir William Herbert) to their meeting point at LLanddew (north of Brecon) where another Standard was erected. This is why the road at Crug Hywel is known as Standard Street.The meeting point also had his Standard, and is know as the Standell.
Eric Foulkes,
Bromborough Wirral Merseyside.
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