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Hamlet at crossroads on the B4329, named after the old well, with pump, seen here. It's likely to have been an important stop on the way between Haverfordwest and Cardigan; the historical map confirmed my suspicion that the house was once an inn.
©ceridwen
Not visually improved by the roadworks signs and other clutter (there was some parapet repair work taking place on the bridge just north of the village). The wellhead pump is still there, but much of the other picturesque paraphernalia seen in [[620754]] seems to have vanished; not clear whether it's in storage, or permanently gone.
©Richard Law
©Dylan Moore
The place takes its name from the well at this crossroads where horses could slake their thirst before or after crossing the hills. Their drivers/riders might have preferred to avail themselves of the pub that once existed here. Various rural bygones add interest now; the machine in the foreground would have been used for grinding fodder, roots perhaps.
©ceridwen
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©Rob Bainbridge
Dist:0.4km<br/>Neat little nonconformist chapel (Independent) erected around 1840, on the road next to Pontgynon (Cynon's bridge) over the infant Afon Nyfer/River Nevern. Like so many of these rural chapels it stands not within a village but at some distance away, a fact which must have served to accentuate the church/chapel divide.
©ceridwen
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.7km<br/>The Nyfer eventually discharges into the sea at Newport, about 7 or 8 miles downstream of here.
©Richard Law
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©Richard Law
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©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.8km<br/>After several days' rain, not a good time to try driving through this.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.8km<br/>I am informed, thanks to Dylan Moore's image [[1612240]], that this ford is called Rhyd-saith-gareg/Ford of the seven stones, although I do not know which stones are referred to. In contrast to the previous image the river Brynberian is shallow after a dry period. There is a footbridge on the right.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.8km<br/>A quiet back road fords the little Brynberian river on its course northwards from the mountainside towards the Nevern.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.8km<br/>A ford, plus a footbridge on the upstream side for walkers and mountain bikers who don't much fancy a wetting.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.9km<br/>Cottage beside Afon Brynberian where the road fords the river.
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