Falcondale is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.1213°, -4.0960°.

Mountains & hills · Mid Wales

Falcondale

Falcondale in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Woodland track north-west of Lampeter, Ceredigion - geograph.org.uk - 4718472 — Roger Kidd — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 3 h–8 h
Best time of year: Late spring – early autumn (May–Oct)

Falcondale is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Falcondale (Welsh: Glyn Hebog) is a hamlet in the community of Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, and occupies a low bluff overlooking the Nant Creuddyn north-west of Lampeter. Falcondale is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and the Member of Parliament is Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru). Located 59.3 miles (95.4 km) from Cardiff and 174.8 miles (281.3 km) from London. A single track road (the South Drive) can be found on the A475 from Lampeter towards Newcastle Emlyn and Cardigan. The road contains bungalows mostly built in the 1980s. A second single track road (The North Drive) can be found on the A482 from Lampeter to Aberaeron, where workers' cottages are, Home Farm and a coach house dating from 1859. Both drives meet in the centre where the main house is situated, also called Falcondale, which was grade II listed in November 1992.

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Background

History

There were three estates in and around Lampeter, Maesyfelin, Peterwell and Falcondale all having substantial houses. Only Falcondale (the youngest of the three) now exists. Maesyfelin was resided in from the 16th century by the Lloyd family. Sir Lucius Lloyd, High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1746, married Anne, daughter of Walter Lloyd of Peterwell. On his death in 1750 his estates were inherited by his widow's family. Only a few garden walls remain of this property, as stones from this house were used to remodel Peterwell House. and corner towers after 1755, but before his suicide in 1769. Peterwell Estate was sold to Richard Hart-Davies in 1807, who was a partner of Harford Bank in…

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