Where is Llanafan Fawr?

Llanafan Fawr is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.1908°, -3.5102°.

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Llanafan Fawr

Llanafan Fawr in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

St Afan's Church at Llanafarn-fawr, Powys - geograph.org.uk - 2936015 — Roger Kidd — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Llanafan Fawr 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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Llanafan Fawr is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Powys, Wales. Located in the former cantref of Buellt (Builth) and historic county of Brecknockshire, the community includes the former parish of Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan. The parish has an area of slightly over 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) (about twenty square miles) and a scattered rural population of more than a thousand. It is named after Saint Afan and was the centre of Cantref Buallt in ancient times, before the building of Builth Wells about 9 miles (14 km) away. The former spa town of Llandrindod Wells lies about 8 miles (13 km) to the north east. An electoral ward of the same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 1,386.

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History

Afan was a 6th-century saint supposedly related to the Cuneddan dynasty of Gwynedd. He was said to have been martyred on the banks of the Afon Chwefru during an attack by Irish pirates or Danes. The Llanafan Fawr Agricultural Show is held on the third Sunday in September each year. The inaugural show was held in 1947 and it is believed to be one of the oldest shows in north Breconshire.

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