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| | icWales - Abbey's `four story' £10m facelift |
 | | David Austin, of the University of Wales, Lampeter, has spent three years assembling a project costing up to £10m to purchase land and buildings, excavate the huge abbey complex and provide facilities for visitors. |
 | | There is the ecological story of the upper Teifi Valley with the Cors Caron Tregaron Bog, the largest in England and Wales, and the surrounding woodlands and mountains, which already attract up to 30,000 visitors each year. |
 | | The story of Strata Florida itself forms the third strand, a massive transformation of the landscape and the introduction of sheep farming into Wales, which was then a cattle-rearing country. |
| icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0200wales/page.cfm?objectid=12298879&method=full&siteid=50082&CFID=7922410&CFTOKEN=97723351 (690 words) |
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