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Llanfair-ar-y-bryn

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The old parish church, Llanfair-ar-y-bryn
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Llanfair-y-bryn is the name of a rural community and Church in Wales parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Covering an area of some 95 km², it lies along and to the northwest and southeast of the A483 Swansea to Chester road immediately north of the town of Llandovery.^[1] The population of the community at the 2011 census was 624.^[2]

Description

Two particularities of Llanfair-ar-y-bryn (English meaning: "St Mary's on the hill") are that

the community and parish contain no settlement of that name: in 1801 it comprised the hamlets of Rhandir Abbot, Rhandir Canol, Rhandir Isaf, and Rhandir Uchaf;^[3] today the principal settlements are Cynghordy and Rhandir-mwyn
the parish church was, until 1883, located one mile outside the parish itself, in Llandingad (Llandovery); in 1883 a new church (also called St Mary's) was opened at a more central location in Cynghordy.

The area is served by trains operated between Swansea and Shrewsbury via Llandrindod Wells by Transport for Wales, which manages Cynghordy railway station, a request stop on the Heart of Wales Line from Llanelli to Craven Arms.

The community is bordered by the communities of: Myddfai; Llandovery; and Cilycwm, all being in Carmarthenshire; by Llanddewi Brefi in Ceredigion; and by: Llanwrtyd Wells; Llangamarch; Maescar; and Llywel, all in Powys.

The old parish church, Llanfair-ar-y-bryn

The original Church of St Mary stands a mile outside the parish on the northeastern edge of Llandovery, on the site of the Roman auxiliary fort of Alabum.^[4] William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), generally acknowledged as one of Wales's greatest hymn writers, is buried in the churchyard there, having been a resident of the parish for much of his life.

References

1. ^Google map of Llanfair-ar-y-bryn
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125873&c=SA20+0NW&d=16&e=62&g=6492265&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1429107763143&enc=1|title=Community population 2011 |accessdate=15 April 2015}}
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=ATITAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT311&lpg=PT311&dq=Rhandir+Abbot&source=bl&ots=6p8oXlY4Mf&sig=vRTNI6wG7j6MTmjpXZ0qHLX70Pg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wN-UUqKFApSThgfdiIDIBg&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Rhandir%20Abbot&f=false Nicholas Carlisle: A Topographical Dictionary of the Dominion of Wales]
4. ^CBHC/RCAHMW: Coflein

External links

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CMN/Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn/index.html
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2056

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