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Felindre Farchog

Felindre Farchog
Pont Felindre Farchog - geograph.org.uk - 473985.jpg
The A487 bridge over the Nevern
Felindre Farchog is located in Pembrokeshire
Felindre Farchog
Felindre Farchog
Felindre Farchog shown within Pembrokeshire
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Newport, Pembrokeshire
Postcode district SA41
Dialling code 01239
Police Dyfed-Powys
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
EU Parliament Wales
UK Parliament
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Wales
Pembrokeshire
52°01′02″N 4°46′10″W / 52.0172°N 4.7695°W / 52.0172; -4.7695Coordinates: 52°01′02″N 4°46′10″W / 52.0172°N 4.7695°W / 52.0172; -4.7695

Felindre Farchog (rough English translation: mill village of the knight, or horseman) is a small village in the community of Nevern in Pembrokeshire, Wales, located around 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Cardigan, and within the parish of Bayvil. The A487 road from Cardigan to Newport runs through the village.

The village, on the River Nevern, consists of a few houses (including eight listed buildings, one a former college) and an inn.

There is a prehistoric earthwork in the south of the village, described as being circular and about 25m in diameter. A number of small mines used to exist to the south-west of the village.

To the east of the village the main road crosses the medieval bridge Pont Baldwyn over Nant Duad, believed to be named after Archbishop Baldwin who with Gerald of Wales campaigned and preached in the area in the late 12th century. To the west, the River Nevern is crossed by an unnamed bridge.

Felindre Farchog developed as a result of its position on the main route between the former ports of Cardigan and Newport, a road which is now part of the A487. In the 17th century the rural poor lived in earth houses, while a number of significant buildings were established nearby.

At the eastern end of the village is the College, a 17th-century building founded by Sir George Owen and modernised in 1852 by Sir Thomas Lloyd in Gothic style to house the Court of the Lordship of Cemais. The building became private accommodation in 1976. A few yards northeast of the College is a pair of estate cottages, numbers 1 and 2 Pendre, Henllys Road, both listed Grade II, built about 1860. No.1 retains the original sash windows.

Cwmgloyne is a 17th century Grade II listed mansion about half a mile north of the village. The house has been much altered since. Originally an estate with lands across several parishes, the estate was broken up towards the end of the 19th century.

Yr Hen Gapel is Grade II listed as a rare example of a small early chapel. Built in 1791, it was rebuilt in 1810, converted to a Sunday School in 1857 and later in the 19th century became the vestry to Cana Chapel. Cana Chapel is a Grade II listed building built in 1810, rebuilt in 1857, and still in use in 2006.


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