Gogerddan (also spelled Gogarthen) was an estate near to

Trefeurig Trefeurig is a Community (Wales), community in Ceredigion, Wales, situated around north-east of Aberystwyth. It is a site of particular prehistoric, Roman, and Iron Age interest, and has a long history as a mining area. In 2011 the local populat ...

and the most important in what was then the county of

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, Wales. Owned since at least the fifteenth century by the Pryse family, the main house, called Plas Gogerddan, still stands and is a

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. The estate became especially wealthy from the seventeenth century on the profits from

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, which is when the house was constructed. The house was significantly altered in the 1860s and was sold by Sir Pryse Loveden Saunders-Pryse to

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in 1949. Gogerddan provisionally held the high temperature record for Wales – 35.3°C, which was recorded on 18 July 2022. It replaced the previous record holder

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which held the record for almost 32 years. This record was short-lived, however, as by the end of the same day, Hawarden recorded a temperature of 37.1°C.

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National Library of Wales: Historic surveys and maps of the estateNational Library of Wales: Estate records and archives
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