Parc y Rhos

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Parc y Rhos is a small village in Carmarthenshire in mid Wales about 2 miles outside of Lampeter. Once a thriving community with a small shop, two pubs, and a falconry centre, it is now largely reduced to a dormitory village for Lampeter. Caersalem Baptist Church was built in 1840. [1]

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References

  1. Caersalem Welsh Baptist Chapel, Parc-y-rhos, Coflein (August 2009) (accessed 4 June 2022)

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