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OS grid reference
  
SN521511

Ceremonial county
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Elevation
  
795 m

Mountain range
  
Brecon Beacons

Parent range
  
Brecon Beacons

Principal area
  
Country
  
Wales

Post town
  
Prominence
  
130 m

Parent peak
  
Pen y Fan

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Similar
  
Pen y Fan, Corn Du, Fan y Big, Waun Rydd, Y Gyrn

Central brecon beacons horseshoe pen y fan cribyn


Cribyn is a small village in Ceredigion, Wales, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Lampeter and with the villages of Troed y Rhiw, Mydroilyn and Dihewyd to the north.

Contents

Map of Cribyn, Brecon, UK

Brecon beacons corn du pen y fan cribyn july 2016


History and amenities

Once a thriving community with two pubs, a garage and a post office, it is now largely reduced to a dormitory town or commuter village for Lampeter.

The primary school in the village, founded by local hero Gwilym Butler-Wilkins, has maintained its status as primarily Welsh speaking since its establishment in 1876.

Cribyn has one of the few Unitarian chapels in Ceredigion, which was established in 1790 by Dafydd Davis Castellhywel and Evan Davies, Cwmbedw. There was an old cottage next to the Nonconformist chapel which was older than the chapel, and a school was held here for many years until the primary school was founded.

Four parishes meet in Cribyn, and most parishioners went to the parish church in Llanfihangel Ystrad until the present church was established at the end of the 19th century.

Capel Sant Silin on the road from Cribyn to Gorsgoch is the oldest part of the village. Saint Silin built a small church here in the 6th or 7th century. A horse fair was held here until the 1930s and the village used to come to a standstill when the fair was on. A small stone-built building on the corner by Penlancapel was used as a kitchen during the fair and food was sold from here. Penlancapel is the oldest dwelling in the village apart from the old corn mill. Felin Hafodwen was part of the estate of the abbey at Ystrad Ceilliau, Strata Florida Abbey. It was still milling corn in the twentieth century.

On the road to Mydroilyn, there was a woollen mill and the cottage near the coarse fishing ponds was the fuller's cottage, Pandy.

Opposite the school, on the road to Temple Bar, is Cae Hir. The farmhouse and outbuildings were one long row with a passage separating the living quarters from the livestock. These days it is the reception area for Cae Hir Gardens and Tea Room.

References

Cribyn Wikipedia


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