Using the 1881 census and contemporary historical sources, the History RATS have produced a series of portraits of parishes on the Levels in the late 19th century.
Railways across the Gwent Levels
Cheese-making on the Wentlooge Levels
After the monks: the Tudor Levels
Life alongside Monks Ditch Pill
Nonconformism on the Wentlooge Level
Sea walls and the 1884 Act of Commutation
Balloon tragedy at the Cardiff Exhibition
Churches on the Levels
The Newport Ship
Fishing in the Severn Estuary
Lewis Jones - Farmer and Poet of the Levels
Feeding the nation
Pillboxes on the Gwent Levels
Crossing the Severn
The Barland’s Farm Boat
The Magor Pill Boat
Mapping the Levels
Anne Williams – Brinker
A brinker is old Levels lingo for a person who owns land on one side of a reen, wall or pill and is responsible for its maintenance.