Pentre-bach
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Location within Powys | |
Principal area | |
Preserved county | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Brecon |
Postcode district | LD3 |
Police | Dyfed-Powys |
Fire | Mid and West Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
UK Parliament | |
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
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] )