Pont-rhyd-y-groes

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Pont-rhyd-y-groes
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Pont-rhyd-y-groes, the bridge over the Ystwyth.
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Pont-rhyd-y-groes
Location within Ceredigion
OS grid reference SN740727
  Cardiff 90 mi (140 km)SE
Principal area
Preserved county
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town YSTRAD MEURIG
Postcode district SY25
Dialling code 01974
Police Dyfed-Powys
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
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UK
Wales
Ceredigion
52°20′17″N3°50′57″W / 52.338163°N 3.849038°W / 52.338163; -3.849038

Pont-rhyd-y-groes (also known as Pontrhydygroes, 'the bridge of the ford of the cross') is a village near Cwmystwyth and Devil's Bridge (Welsh : Pont ar Fynach), in Ceredigion, Wales. The village takes its name from the bridge (pont) and (earlier) ford (rhyd) over the River Ystwyth.

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The area used to be dominated by the mining industry, in particular by the Lisburnes. The miners' bridge across the Ystwyth gorge and the waterfall have been rebuilt.

The remnants of the Fron Goch mines, which mined lead and zinc from ca. 1760 until ca. 1903, are situated approximately 1+34 miles (2+34 km) north of the village. [1]

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