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Pen-y-Bont-Fawr

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Pen-y-Bont-Fawr
Village and community
The Railway Inn
Pen-y-Bont-Fawr is located in Powys
Pen-y-Bont-Fawr
Pen-y-Bont-Fawr
Location within Powys
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceDyfed-Powys
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
List of places
UK
Wales
Powys

52°48′38″N 3°21′23″W / 52.8105°N 3.3565°W / 52.8105; -3.3565

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Pen-y-Bont-Fawr (or Penybontfawr[1]) is a small village and community in the Tanat valley in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. In the 2011 UK Census it had a population of 440 with 58% born in England and 39% in Wales (many nearby hospitals are in England).[2]

It is in the electoral ward of Llanwddyn.

St Thomas's Church was built in 1855 in the Victorian Gothic style. It is a Grade II listed building.[3]

Robert Ellis (1812–1875), bardic name Cynddelw, was a Welsh language poet, editor and lexicographer, He was born nearby at Tyn y Meini, Bryndreiniog.[4]

Penybontfawr railway station was on the Tanat Valley Light Railway. The station opened in 1904 and closed in 1951.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ "Penybontfawr, Powys - Powys". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics".
  3. ↑ "Parish Church of St Thomas". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Ellis, Robert (1808 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Anniversary of Tanat Valley Light Railway closure". Unseen Steam. Retrieved 12 March 2017.


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