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Dist:0.1km<br/>Smart dragon at entrance to Business Park Crymych

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Dist:0.3km<br/>Just to the northwest of the village the sparsely-occupied cemetery lies on the route of the old railway. Behind is a rugby pitch for livelier members of the community with Mynydd Frenni Fawr looming beyond.

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Dist:0.5km<br/>Stark and simple 'zinc' structure with grassy lawn and heap of boulders, alongside the pavement in Crymych. Could be a barn or a garage? It seems to possess its own special aesthetic.

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Dist:0.5km<br/>This agricultural machine depot, on the Newport Road, with its 1950's style corrugated-tin structures is a good introduction to what this upland farming community is about: rural life and not a lot of change.

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Dist:0.5km<br/>It must have been a thrill to see the Cardigan to Whitland train emerging from this tunnel right into the station at this point.
Now it has become the backdrop to greenhouses and a duckpond, someone having made imaginative use of the old cutting.

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Dist:0.5km<br/>One of the stalls at Gwyl Fwyd y Frenni/Frenni Food Festival, Crymych

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Dist:0.6km<br/>The inn gave its name to the village, having long stood at the convergence of six roads crossing the upland area of Pembrokeshire, and must served many a drover, farmer and traveller as a meeting place and a stop-over. When the railway arrived in 1875 the inn gained in importance but it has survived the closing of the line and remains the only hostelry in this isolated community.

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Dist:0.6km<br/>Slate plaque outside the market hall.
Ploveilh (called in French Plomelin) is a small town near Quimper in Finisterre, Brittany.
Many Welsh towns and villages have Breton twins, for obvious reasons.

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Dist:0.6km<br/>The tourist information point next to the market hall looks like being eclipsed by this handy gossip station for local people!

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Dist:0.6km<br/>The slogan of the cheesemakers from the Cothi valley, Carmarthenshire, whose products (made from goats' milk) were for sale at this annual summer food fair in Crymych, Gwyl Fwyd y Frenni.

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Dist:0.6km<br/>Frenni Food Fair is an annual summer event of recent years that takes place in the market hall at Crymych. Most of the participants, both producers and purchasers, are local, but with a sprinkling of visitors from further afield.

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Dist:0.6km<br/>Useful sustenance on the corner of Newport Road and Heol Parc y Ffair/Fairfield Road which today leads to... a fun fair.

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Dist:0.6km<br/>The NFU, the post office and the Chinese take-away...some of the essential services in this upland community in Wales' wild west.

This street was once the way to the station but even though the railway line has gone the village retains its importance in the area with a Welsh-medium secondary school, small rural businesses and light industry.

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Dist:0.6km<br/>The station was built in 1875 to the design of J.W.Szlumper who was surveyor for the county of Cardigan and also a railway engineer responsible for several Welsh lines.
The goods sheds has become part of the industrial estate while the station itself is now a private dwelling.

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