Garth is a village in

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, mid

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, in the community of

Treflys Treflys is a community in the county of Powys, Wales, and is 49.9 miles (80.4 km) from Cardiff and 154.4 miles (248.5 km) from London. In 2011 the population of Treflys was 484 with 15.1% of them able to speak Welsh. It is in the histor ...

. It lies on the

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road between

Builth Wells Builth Wells (; ) is a market town and community in the county of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh (or upper) part of the Wye Valley. In 20 ...

and Beulah at the point where the B4519 joins it from the south. The River Irfon flows to the south of the village. Garth railway station is a request station on the Heart of Wales Line.

Notable residents

Garth was associated with the Gwynne family, which included Marmaduke Gwynne (1691–1769) and his daughter

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(1726–1822) who were early converts to

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. Sarah married

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(1707–1788) at the nearby Llanlleonfel church in 1749.Marmaduke Gwynne
, llgc.org.uk, retrieved September 2013

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