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Dist:0.2km<br/>A small housing development on the eastern edge of the village. The Preseli hills, topped by Moel Cwmcerwyn, rise behind.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The village name has featured in a couple of major advertisements on account of its supposedly challenging pronunciation! If you remember that in Welsh 'w' sounds like 'oo' then there really isn't a problem.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The name 'Ty Man Crydd' on the wall of the stone house indicates that it must once have been a shoemaker's workshop/home.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A nice view made bizarre by an accumulation of street furniture.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Sycamore tree in Church Lane grips the wall with wooden toes.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The churchyard surrounding the church is elevated above the road at the western end. One of the many possible etymologies suggested for the name of the village is Eglwys-hwrwg, church on a hillock.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>On the wall in the lane behind the church is this attachment for a water tap, with large stone alongside.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The parish name probably means "church of the Virgin", but the church is dedicated to the obscure 6th-century Welsh saint Cristiolus. The church enclosure is circular (except from a bit eaten away on the north boundary) and typical of very early (6th century?) foundation, perhaps on a pre-christian site. However, the church was rebuilt in 1883, and shows little earlier detail.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Although this building dates from 1829 there has been a church on the site since ancient times.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Opposite the former Serjeants' Inn is this building in which the serjeants-at-arms would store their weapons while enjoying the hospitality laid on for them over the road.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This little river is culverted under the road through the village but emerges ahead to snake around the backs of the houses on the northern edge. It joins the Afon Duad near Felindre Farchog.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This Victorian reconstruction of an more modest earlier building is dedicated to Christiolus, a 7th century Welsh saint, although the name of the village, Eglwyswrw, is often translated as 'Wrw's church'. (However there may be an alternative explanation for the name, see [[292865]].) The saint's day, November 3, was traditionally celebrated in the parish.
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