Cemmaes Road ( cy, Glantwymyn; ) is a village in

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, Wales. It is in the

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(civil parish) of Glantwymyn. The village was named in

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after the now-closed station on the

Newtown and Machynlleth Railway The Newtown and Machynlleth Railway was a railway company in Wales. It built a line from a junction with the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway near Caersws to the market town of Machynlleth; the line opened in 1862. Newtown had become the hub of r ...

, now part of the

Cambrian Line The Cambrian Line ( cy, Llinell y Cambrian), also known as the Cambrian Main Line ( cy, Prif Linell y Cambrian) and Cambrian Coast Line ( cy, Llinell Arfordir y Cambrian), is a railway line that runs from Shrewsbury, England, westwards to Abe ...

. Cemmes Road was also the junction with the

Mawddwy Railway The Mawddwy Railway was a rural line in the Dyfi Valley in mid-Wales that connected Dinas Mawddwy with a junction at railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway section of the Cambrian Railways. Despite being only 6 miles 63 chain ...

. The

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name for the village, and for the

, is ''Glantwymyn'' ( en, The Twymyn Riverside), as it lies on the

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. According to the

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, the

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of the community is 1,072, increasing to 1,185 at the 2011 Census. The village of Cemmaes is miles to the northeast. Cemmaes Road lies at the junction of the major

A470 The A470 (also named the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road) is a trunk road in Wales. It is the country's longest road at and links the capital Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast. While previously one had to navigat ...

and

A489 road The A489, officially known as the Newtown to Machynlleth Trunk Road in Wales, is a trunk road in the United Kingdom running from Craven Arms, Shropshire to Machynlleth, Powys and crossing the Wales-England border. The road starts about one mile ...

s. The historic Mathafarn Hall is less than mile north-west of Cemmaes Road. Ysgol Glantwymyn

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is located in the village.

Governance

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in the Welsh name exists, which also covers the neighbouring community of

Cadfarch Cadfarch is a community a few miles to the south and southeast of Machynlleth in Powys (previously Montgomeryshire) in Wales. The community's western and southern border is with the neighbouring county of Ceredigion, while the northwest corner tou ...

. The ward had a population of 2,040 at the 2011 Census.

Welsh Language

According to the 2001 census, 58.5% of the people in the community can speak the

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. The age group with the highest number of Welsh speakers is the 15-year-olds, where every 15-year-old could speak the language.

References

External links

The former railway stationwww.geograph.co.uk : photos of Cemmaes Road / Glantwymyn & surrounding area
Villages in Powys Glantwymyn {{Powys-geo-stub