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Ponterwyd

Ponterwyd in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Old Milestone by the A44, Ponterwyd, Blaenrheidol parish - geograph.org.uk - 6049383

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About

Ponterwyd 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

Ponterwyd (Welsh pronunciation: [pɔntˈerʊi̯d]) is a village in Ceredigion, Wales. It lies in the Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales, approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Aberystwyth on the A44 road.

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Background

History

At the village's heart lies (English: The Old Bridge), a steep single-arch late 18th-century stone bridge over the Afon Rheidol river, which is adjacent to a late Georgian chapel. Buildings in Ponterwyd range in date from the Georgian period to the 1980s, when a development of bungalows named 'Penlon' was added to the village. The village pub, "The George Borrow Hotel", is named after the writer George Borrow, who travelled through Wales on foot in the 1860s. The scholar John Rhŷs was born in Ponterwyd in 1840, and the composer Albert Alan Owen lived there for over thirty years.

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Coordinates
52.4117, -3.8400

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Where is Ponterwyd?
Ponterwyd is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.4117°, -3.8400°.