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Dist:0.3km<br/>Clearly an ancient bridge which crosses the infant river Nevern between Eglwyswrw to the NW and Crymuch to the SE. It appears to have two arches separated by a spit of land in the middle: the one shown spans the smaller stream, possibly a mill leat.
Pont faen, the name of the crossroads to the south, simply means stone bridge.

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Dist:1.0km north<br/>

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Dist:1.0km south<br/>A brief shower passes over the Preseli ridge.

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Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>Could this short length of public footpath be all that remains of an ancient trackway? The way it is cut deep into the surrounding farmland makes me think it might. It runs for about a hundred yards NE from Penyrallt Uchaf farm.

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Dist:1.1km north<br/>

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Dist:1.1km north<br/>

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Dist:1.1km north<br/>Looking east from the road through a screen of rosebay willowherb. There is no village here, but the church stands at the entrance to a gentry house, Pantyderi, once the home of the Bowen family.
It has been suggested that the name Nant Gwyn/white brook comes from the amount of quartz stone on the surface of the ground in the area.

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Dist:1.1km south<br/>The name of this roadside farm, between Eglwyswrw and Crymych, indicates it was once a 'white dwelling'.

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Dist:1.2km south<br/>Welsh is an economical language: lladd means to slay or to kill as well as to cut/cut down; gwair serves for grass whether in its fresh or its dried form.
(As usual, the roadsign man seems to be wrestling with a giant umberella!)

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Dist:1.2km northeast<br/>

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Dist:1.2km north<br/>Substantial farm with large house and range of stone outbuildings, no doubt once associated with the 'big house' of Pantyderi nearby. Now has a herd of Jersey cattle.
East of Eglwyswrw on the road to Crymych.

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Dist:1.3km west<br/>Victorian reconstruction, closed since 1999.

'This parish, which is supposed to have derived its name from the white colour of the stone of which the original church was built, is situated in a retired part of the county, at a distance from any turnpike road. It comprises a large tract of enclosed arable and pasture land, a considerable tract of mountainous common, affording pasturage for sheep, and some good turbaries, from which the inhabitants are supplied with fuel. The soil is various, and the inhabitants are principally employed in agriculture: the stone in this part of the country contains a great proportion of quartz, which is found in abundance within the parish.'
From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833:

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Dist:1.3km west<br/>Judging by the surroundings the church is now a family home although gravestones still stand in the front churchyard.
Those steps on the right - from inside the church surely?

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