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Bwlchygroes

Bwlchygroes
Bwlchygroes Calvinist Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 573150.jpg
Bwlchygroes Chapel
Bwlchygroes is located in Pembrokeshire
Bwlchygroes
Bwlchygroes
Bwlchygroes shown within Pembrokeshire
OS grid reference SN240360
Community
  • Clydau
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Llanfyrnach
Postcode district SA35
Dialling code 01239
Police Dyfed-Powys
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
EU Parliament Wales
List of places
UK
Wales
PembrokeshireCoordinates: 51°59′42″N 4°33′50″W / 51.995°N 4.564°W / 51.995; -4.564

Bwlchygroes (sometimes spelled Bwlch-y-groes) is a small upland rural village in the community and parish of Clydau, north Pembrokeshire, Wales, 5 miles (8 km) SW of Newcastle Emlyn and the same distance east of Crymych.

Bwlchygroes Community Hall occupies part of the former village school, which closed in 2000. Clydau School, in Tegryn, now serves pupils from Bwlchygroes. School records for 100 years to 1967 are held at the Pembrokeshre Record Office. The village post office closed in 2008. Bwlch-y-Groes Women's Institute papers 1964-2009 are held by Pembrokeshire Record Office.

There is a Calvinist Methodist chapel in the village, dating from 1777; date stones bear several later dates.

There is an agricultural merchant in the village as well as holiday accommodation. The old school is the headquarters of the Green Dragon community bus and scooter scheme, funded by the Welsh Government, and is home to the nursery group (ysgol feithrin).

Bwlchygroes resident Daniel Blackburn was one of the pioneers for using cooking oil as vehicle fuel in the early 2000s.

Bwlchygroes was rated the 6th safest place in Wales in 2014, according to data from UKCrimeStats.


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