Swyddffynnon
Swyddffynnon
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| OS grid reference | SN692662 |
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| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | SY25 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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Swyddffynnon is a village in Ceredigion, Wales, situated 6 km to the north of Tregaron, near the northern edge of Cors Caron (Tregaron Bog). Swyddffynnon lies within the parish of Lledrod Uchaf ([English]: Upper LLedrod).
The solid geology of the area comprises Silurian mudstone of the Derwenlas Formation. Part of the village lies within the valley of the Camddwr Fach stream, the floodplain of which contains superficial deposits of glacial till (Devensian diamicton).
The name Swyddffynnon is a contraction of Swydd-y-ffynnon-oer (English: administrative area of the cold well/spring). The 'swydd' element being added to its earlier name 'Fennanoyr' (English: cold well/spring), which is first mentioned in the late 12th century, when the area was granted by Rhys ap Gruffudd to Strata Florida Abbey. Fennanoyr may have been a bond settlement or an administrative focus for the monastic grange of Mefenydd.
After the Dissolution all of Strata Florida's lands were granted to the Earl of Essex. Soon after, the land around Swyddffynnon appears to have been purchased by the Lloyds of Ffos-y-bleiddiaid (English: moat/ditch of the wolves) and later acquired by the Vaughans of Trawscoed (English; Crosswood).
The nature of the settlement prior to the 18th century remains obscure, but the fact that it does not appear on John Speed's 1610 map of Cardiganshire suggests that at the time it was very small. Later 18th and early 19th century maps depict the area very much as it appears today with scattered farms and small enclosures that give little indication as to when they were established.
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