Merched Beca — The Rebecca Riots of West Wales 1839–1844 — An Interactive Heritage Map and Digital Archive
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This article documents, for the first time in a single interactive digital resource, every confirmed event of the Rebecca Riots "Terfysgoedd Beca" overlaid directly onto the turnpike road network that caused them. It covers the full span of the riots from the first attack at Efailwen on 13 May 1839, through the peak of the movement in the summer of 1843, to the passage of the South Wales Turnpike Trusts Act in August 1844.
The project integrates a complete historical narrative of the three phases of the riots with an interactive Google My Maps layer of 16 field-verified event locations, a GPS coordinate ledger, individual map pin descriptions for each event, an explanatory note on the archaeological survey record, and a personal reflection by the researcher on why this story matters and what brought him to it.
The interactive map is built on 8 layers. The first is the turnpike infrastructure of west Wales as recorded in the Dyfed Archaeological Trust Turnpike and Pre-Turnpike Roads Scheduling Enhancement Project (2014 Interim Report), covering 489 archaeological sites across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Ceredigion. The second is the Rebecca Riots event layer, placing every confirmed attack in its precise geographical and historical context on the roads where it happened.
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