Welcome to Templar Wales

This site began with a simple observation: the Knights Templar were in Wales for nearly a hundred and seventy years, yet almost no one talks about them here. The Norman castles get the visitors, the Edwardian ones get the coach tours, and the Templars — who never built either — get overlooked.

That is a shame, because the Welsh Templar story is unusually clean. There are no crusading battles fought on Welsh soil, no dramatic sieges. What there is instead is a picture of a religious order at work: running farms, mills and ferries, managing wool exports, funding the Holy Land from the rents of Pembrokeshire fields.

Over the coming months this site will grow into a proper guide to that story: the documented Templar and Hospitaller sites in depth, an illustrated map, a weekend driving itinerary, and The Templar Chronicle of research notes and site visits. Eventually the whole thing will be published as an ebook. For now — welcome, and thanks for reading.