Pentre-bach, Powys

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Pentre-bach
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Pentre-bach
Location within Powys
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Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Brecon
Postcode district LD3
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51°59′08″N3°35′25″W / 51.985432°N 3.590319°W / 51.985432; -3.590319

Pentre-bach (Welsh for "small village") is a hamlet (one of several in Wales with similar names) in Powys, Wales, [1] in the former county and current Shire Committee Area of Breconshire or Brecknockshire. It is located on the Afon Cilieni, a small tributary of the River Usk, between Brecon and Llandovery. The hamlet has a pub called the "Shoemakers Arms" [2] or Tafarn y Crydd, and a former chapel, originally Calvinistic Methodist, named "Beili-du", [3] [4] Welsh for "black yard". The nearest church is in Llandeilo'r-Fan, 2 km to the NW, and the nearest shop is in Sennybridge, 4 km to the south.

Construction started of a railway line up the Cilieni valley, but was abandoned in 1867. (See Neath and Brecon Railway and. [5] )

References

  1. Pentre-bach, Powys - Powys - area information, map, walks and more
  2. Shoemakers Arms - Pentre Bach, Brecon, Wales, LD3 8UB
  3. Genuki: Beilidu Chapel, Bilidu, Pentre-Bach, Breconshire
  4. "Beilidu Chapel, English Presbyterian And Calvinistic Methodist;bilidu, Pentre-bach (6065)". Coflein. RCAHMW . Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  5. Shoemakers Arms