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Dist:0.2km<br/>Not everyone can enjoy owning a mature specimen like this.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>This group of houses was built a little before 1871 to house workers on the Maesgwynne estate.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>I should think that the out-houses would have been a coal house and an outside toilet.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Landsker Borderlands Trail heads southwestwards out of the village, passing between high hedgerows and verdant banks. It appears to have occasional vehicular use, is also used by the occasional horse rider and of course walkers.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>Ym mynwent Eglwys Sant Brynach, Llanboidy ceir 'Cerflun o Alar' - gwaith cynnar pwysig gan y Cymro William Goscombe John. Mae'r cerflun er cof i W.R.H. Powell, tirfeddiannwr nodedig a hoffus lleol a fu farw yn 1891. Dros dreigl yr amser dirywiwyd y cerflun gan yr elfennau ond mae cynllun ar y gweill i'w adnewyddu. The 'Statue of Grief' is located at St Brynach's churchyard, Llanboidy. It is an important early work of the Welsh sculptor, William Goscombe John. It is a memorial to W.R.H Powell, a notable and well liked local landowner who died in 1891. Over the years the statue has suffered from neglect but there are plans afoot to save it from further decay.
©Alan Richards
Dist:0.3km<br/>Facing the road at the bottom end of the churchyard.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>What a magnificent village hall. There isn't one thing about it that I dislike. And plenty to really like.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>There are three dates on the front. The chapel was first built in 1800, and was presumably altered in 1848. The gable on the front looks by its style to have been added in 1903.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>The back and side are tile-hung. The walls taper outwardstowards the bottom. There is a rather smart gravestone on the right (although it does remind me of the black queen of a chess set!).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>built in the 1860s by the Powell family, the squires from Maesgwynne, the local "big house". Also had a court room and a room opening one day a week as a bank. Appears to have closed quite recently.
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.4km<br/>This was the village's biggest public house, but seems to have lost its status altogether. I'm no expert publican, property developer, hotelier or entrepreneur but I can see potential here for someone with the vision (and dosh) to transform this place into an historic destination dining hotel.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>Outside the village hall, and inscribed “This fountain is erected to commemorate the completion of the work for supplying this village with water in compliance with the last wish of W. R. H. Powell M.P.”. The village hall was built in 1881 as a market hall, and the water supply and sewerage system was installed in 1890, the first piped water in Carmarthenshire.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.5km<br/>What a shame that a magnificent building like this is boarded up and non-operational. It looks like it has great potential as a hotel, gastro pub etc.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.5km<br/>Little seems known about this site. It is not known or recorded as 'Llanboidy Castle' and as it has never been excavated little is known about its date or founding, or founder, who could be either Norman English or Welsh. It is most likely a Norman motte and bailey 12th century foundation but fell out of use soon after and was never re-built in stone. It stands on private land.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.6km<br/>This castle mound is in a field near to the 'Maesgwynne Arms'.
©Humphrey Bolton

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