Coordinates: 52°02′34″N 3°12′05″W / 52.04278°N 3.20149°W
| Aberllynfi | |
  Aberllynfi
Aberllynfi shown within Wales |
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| Population | n/a |
|---|---|
| Principal area | Powys |
| Ceremonial county | Powys |
| Constituent country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRECON |
| Postcode district | LD3 |
| Dialling code | 01497 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| European Parliament | Wales |
| UK Parliament | Brecon & Radnorshire |
| List of places: UK • Wales • | |
Aberllynfi (English Three Cocks) is a village in Powys, Wales close to Glasbury. The name refers to the mouth of the Afon Llynfi which enters the River Wye just east of the village. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye some 5 miles (8 km) to the east.
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Aberllynfi Castle
Aberllynfi Castle was built in the 12th century. In 1233 it belonged to Walter de Clifford, but was seized by King Henry III during a baronial dispute.[1] What remains of the small fortification is the motte raised above the surrounding marsh.[2]
Aberllynfi parish
Aberllynfi was once a separate ecclesiastical parish, but its church fell into disuse in the 18th century.[3]
Three Cocks
The curious English name of the village is comparatively recent and was taken from the former railway station (Three Cocks Junction, now a garden centre) where the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway met the Mid-Wales Railway. The station derived its name from the 15th century Three Cocks Inn (a coaching inn, still extant[4][5]) which in turn took its name from the armorial bearings of former local landowners, the Williams family of Old Gwernyfed.[6] These were supposed to have been based on the arms of the medieval Welsh prince Einon Sais, who lived in Aberllynfi, but this is probably a later invention.
Thomas Edwards, a former innkeeper of the Three Cocks, was also a bridge-builder, constructing the 7-arch Glasbury Bridge in 1777 (destroyed by floods in 1795) and rebuilding the 3-arch bridge over the Llynfi at Pont Ithel in 1783.[7]
Gwernyfed
The original house and deer park of Old Gwernyfed, to the south of the village, is of medieval origin, but the house was extensively rebuilt in the 17th century.[8] In 1600 it was purchased by Sir David Williams, MP for the Borough of Brecon (1584-93, 1597-1604). In 1613, it was inherited by his son, Sir Henry Williams, MP for the Borough of Brecon (1601-04) and for Breconshire (1620-28). His son, also Sir Henry Williams, was also MP for Breconshire (1628-29).[9] On 6th August 1645, he was said to have entertained King Charles I at Gwernyfed, following Charles' defeat at the Battle of Naseby.[10] Curiously, Sir Edward Williams was not a relation (despite his surname), but married the family heiress. This seems to have ensured that he too became MP for Breconshire (1697-98, 1705-21).[11] In 1776, Thomas Wood also married the family heiress. [12] Their son, Thomas Wood, was MP for Breconshire for forty-one years (1806-47).
Gwernyfed Park, a much later Jacobean-style house within the deer park, was built for Captain Thomas Wood by William Eden Nesfield in the 1870s.[13]During the Second World War, it was requisitioned and used by the South Wales Borderers.[14] Since 1950, it has formed part of Gwernyfed High School. A rugby union club, Gwernyfed RFC, was founded at the school in the 1960s, but now plays at and represents the nearby town of Talgarth.
Following local government reorganization in 1974, Aberllynfi has been placed in the Community of Gwernyfed, together with the neighbouring village of Felindre and the southern part of the village of Glasbury.[15]
Notes
- ^ http://www.castles99.ukprint.com/Essays/Aberllynfi.html
- ^ http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306023/images/ABERLLYNFI+CASTLE%3B+GREAT+HOUSE+MOUND/ photo
- ^ Rev. W.E.T. Morgan, Hay and neighbourhood, 1932.
- ^ http://www.threecockshotel.com/
- ^ http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318086 photo
- ^ http://www.coflein.gov.uk/pdf/CPG321/
- ^ A.W. Skempton, A biographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.1, pp 210-211 (2002) ISBN 072772939X
- ^ http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mworname.htm
- ^ http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WILL-GWE-1536.html
- ^ J. Britton et al., The Beauties of England and Wales, p. 100 (1815)
- ^ http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WILL-GWE-1536.html
- ^ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-acc1302&cid=0#0
- ^ http://www.coflein.gov.uk/pdf/CPG326/
- ^ http://www.gwernyfed-hs.powys.sch.uk/our_history.php
- ^ http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaMetadata.do?a=7&b=801391&c=presteigne&d=14&e=5&g=415358&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1248078356226&enc=1&areaId=801391 map
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