Cwm Gorlan above Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion, is a dispersed collection of small cottages established at the limits of cultivatable land, named `Tai Newyddion? (new houses) on nineteeth century maps. This was a lead mining hamlet but may have originated as a `squatter settlement? of tai unnos, or `one night houses?, hastily erected by squatters on common land during the eighteenth century. In the valley beyond lies the great silver lead mining landscape at Cwmystwyth, which offered the promise of work and a better life to these impoverished rural communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
