Llangynyw (also Llangyniew) is a hamlet and

community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire ( ) was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974. It was named after its county town, Montgomery, Powys, Montgomery, which in turn was named after ...

Powys Powys ( , ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It borders Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Wrexham County Borough, Wrexham to the north; the English Ceremonial counties of England, ceremo ...

, mid

Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...

. It is located on a hill inside a bend in the

River Banwy The River Banwy is a river about long in Powys, Wales. It is a tributary of the River Vyrnwy. The Banwy rises in the hills near the pass which takes the A458 road between Mallwyd and Welshpool. The river is called Nant Cerrig-y-groes at its ...

, approximately two miles north-east of

Llanfair Caereinion Llanfair Caereinion () is a market town and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales upon the River Banwy (also known as the River Einion), around 8 miles west of Welshpool. In 2011 the ward had a population of 1,810; the town itself had a p ...

. The community includes the hamlet of

Pontrobert Pontrobert is an ecclesiastical parish that was formed in September 1854. It comprises the townships of Teirtref and part of Nantymeichiaid in the parish Meifod, a portion of Cynhinfa which was in the parish of Llangynyw and portions of the t ...

. The focus of the hamlet is the Parish Church of St. Cynyw, which dates from between 1450 and 1500 and is a

Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

building. The parish of Llangynyw had a population of 551 when the 1801 census was taken, 430 in

1901 December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the unification of multiple British colonies in Australia on January ...

, and 295 in 1971, increasing back to 582 at the 2011 census.

Pentre Camp Pentre Camp is an Iron Age hillfort, near the hamlet of Llangynyw and about north-east of Llanfair Caereinion, in Powys, Wales. It is a scheduled monument. Description The fort is an oval, about by , enclosing an area of . There are several co ...

, an Iron Age hillfort, is near the hamlet.

References

External links

Llangyniew Community Council website
* ttps://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ1208 Photographs of Llangynyw and the surrounding area, Geograph Villages in Powys {{Powys-geo-stub