Falcondale
Falcondale
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 Falcondale
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| Falcondale shown within Ceredigion | |
| OS grid reference | SN54NE28 |
| • Cardiff | 59.3 mi (95.4 km) |
| • London | 174.8 mi (281.3 km) |
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| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Lampeter |
| Dialling code | 01570 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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Falcondale (Welsh: Glyn Hebog) is a hamlet in the community of Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, and occupies a low bluff overlooking the Nant Creuddyn north-west of Lampeter.
Falcondale is represented in the National Assembly for Wales by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and the Member of Parliament is Mark Williams (Liberal Democrats).
Located 59.3 miles (95.4 km) from Cardiff and 174.8 miles (281.3 km) from London. A single track road (The South Drive) can be found on the A475 from Lampeter towards Newcastle Emlyn and Cardigan. The road contains bungalows mostly built in the 1980s. A second single track road (The North Drive) can be found on the A482 from Lampeter to Aberaeron, which is where you'll find worker's cottages, Home Farm and a Coach House dating from 1859. Both drives meet in the centre where you will find the main house, also called Falcondale, which was grade II listed in November 1992
There were three estates in and around Lampeter, Maesyfelin, Peterwell and Falcondale all having substantial houses. Only Falcondale (the youngest of the three) now exists.
Maesyfelin was resided in from the 16th century by the Lloyd family. Sir Lucius Lloyd, High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1746, married Anne, daughter of Walter Lloyd of Peterwell. On his death in 1750 his estates were inherited by his widow's family. Only a few garden walls remain of this property, as stones from this house were used to remodel Peterwell House.
Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet had remodelled Peterwell House with a rooftop garden and corner towers after 1755, but before his suicide in 1769. He left many debts and so the house remained empty and became derelict. It was firstly inherited by his nephew John Adams of Whitland Abbey, an MP in Carmarthenshire in 1774-1780, who amassed more debts and eventually sold the estate in 1776 to Albany Wallis the attorney who held the original mortgage. Peterwell Estate was sold to Richard Hart-Davies in 1807, who was a partner of Harford Bank in Bristol. John Scandrett Harford was a partner in the same bank and his son (also called John Scandrett Harford) married Richard Hart-Davies' daughter Louisa. John Scandrett Harford purchased the Peterwell estate from his father-in-law jointly with his younger brother in 1820.
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