Tirabad is a village in
Powys
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, Wales, not to be confused with a place of the same name in Iran. The name means "the abbot's land"; the village belonged to
Strata Florida
Strata Florida Abbey ( cy, Abaty Ystrad Fflur) () is a former Cistercian abbey situated just outside Pontrhydfendigaid, near Tregaron in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. The abbey was founded in 1164. is a Latinisation of the Welsh ; 'Valley of ...
abbey in the Middle Ages. The village is located on the edge of the
Crychan Forest and is south of
Llanwrtyd and north of
Llanymddyfri. Many people had to leave the village during
World War II
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as the military used the area for
artillery
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training, but the village expanded substantially in the 1950s, when the
Forestry Commission
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The Forestry Commission was previously also resp ...
, now defunct, began tree plantations and built about 25 houses, a school, a village hall and a shop for their employees.
St. David's Church, built in 1726, is the only
Georgian church in
Breconshire
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. No services are currently held at the church due to structural problems with the building, although work is underway to enable it to be reopened.
Just outside the village is the Tirabad Centre, an
outdoor pursuits
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centre run by the Tirabad Residential Educational Trust and owned jointly by outsiders, three state schools in
Berkshire
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,
England
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- Charters in
Sunningdale
Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading ...
,
The Emmbrook near
Wokingham
Wokingham is a market town in Berkshire, England, west of London, southeast of Reading, north of Camberley and west of Bracknell.
History
Wokingham means 'Wocca's people's home'. Wocca was apparently a Saxon chieftain who may ...
and Maiden Erlegh in
Earley. The Centre was closed in March 2021 and its assets taken over by liquidators.
References
External links
Tirabad CentrePhotos of Tirabad and surrounding area on geograph
Villages in Powys
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