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Dist:0.2km<br/>There is a network of lanes and paths in this area. Here they cross a stream that runs into the Afon Brynberian.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>I cannot say how this was before but it appears that an ingenious scheme has been devised to deal with a stream that crosses the path and may cause flooding when in spate. The water has been diverted down the steps to flow into a sump and through an underground culvert. The work was still in progress.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Work was in progress here where a stream appeared to have caused flood damage quite recently. There has been some reconstruction of a path junction and the creation of a sump to drain away water.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The property has been converted. There appears to be the remains of a mill leat passing the entrance.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>This has the appearance of a very old route, probably a cart track to and from the mill. The banks are high and lined with mature trees. It's now part of a network of public footpaths.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>This was a fulling mill called Pant-y-graig Factory.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A tidy house in the centre of the village.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Traditional cottage 'done up' with original door and windows retained and a smart new roof.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This is as close to a 'centre' that the dispersed upland settlement of Brynberian gets - just a cluster of houses around the chapel and the rest mostly scattered along roads and among pastureland, both enclosed and unenclosed, below the Preselis. It's a very traditional Welsh hill farming community and preserves the use of the Welsh language.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Just to the north of Brynberian this field is typical of the area with its rushes, the result of a high water table, and its ant hills indicating that these upland pastures have long remained untilled.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Brynberian no longer has shop, garage, school or post office. Even this phone box is disconnected and available for 'adoption'. Traditionally a scattered upland community, this small cluster of houses followed the establishment of the first, independent, chapel here in 1690.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>I believe this is the name of the dwelling pictured here. I can't help wondering if it formerly had a Welsh name.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Tiny window of a small scullery in a ruined cottage next to the chapel.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The river is hidden by the trees but the rushes in this field indicate that the land is damp and acid.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The huge oak beam that supported the simne fawr (great chimney) above the hearth is still in place although much else has collapsed.
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