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In common with many churches in the area, this has an outdoor baptistry, located in a wooded glade in the village.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.1km<br/>My guidebook said the village also had a post office, but that has closed too.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is the only church in the village and there is no Anglican church locally. The building has been rebuilt twice since the original one from 1794, with a subsequent refurbishment in 1940.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.1km<br/>The playground has recently been refurbished. Bird boxes have been attached to various parts of the equipment too, such as the one on the corner of the wooden 'castle' at the back. This begs the question as to how well the nestboxes are used if the playground is in regular use in the springtime?
©Richard Law
Dist:0.1km<br/>Not unusual to find these corrugated metal structures in this area - a cheap and practical way to build in the mid C20.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.1km<br/>"Built 1794, rebuilt 1821 & rebuilt 1875, adnewyddwyd 1940"
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.3km<br/>House in the village street with stones on the wall.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.4km<br/>The name of this remote Preseli village is usually thought to derive from the Welsh for 'black monks' but it has also been suggested it may be a corruption of mynach Llandudoch/the monks of Llandudoch which is the Welsh name for St Dogmael's where there is an abbey to which the village belonged (the same saint also the patron of the parish church).
©ceridwen
Dist:0.5km<br/>Farm at a road junction just west of Mynachlog-ddu. The name means white, or blessed, spring - it can still be seen in emerging from the bank opposite.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.7km<br/>Cattle grid where this unclassified road emerges onto the open moorland. The gate on the left is for use by livestock.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.7km<br/>Caermeini Farm is behind the camera.
©Dylan Moore
Dist:0.8km<br/>The standing stones are memorials. I believe one is to Waldo Williams the Welsh poet. In the distance is Mynydd Preseli from where they took the bluestones for Stonehenge.
©Ruth Jowett
Dist:0.8km<br/>Rhos Fach is a open common at the foot of the Preseli hills to the west of Mynachlogddu. It times gone by this would have been an area where squatters could attempt to lay claim to freehold by erecting a 'ty-unnos' (overnight house) of wood and turf, later to be converted into a stone dwelling.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.8km<br/>The telecommunications mast in [[SN1730]] can be seen beyond.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.8km<br/>This little structure (shed? dwelling?) harks back to the makeshift 'ty unnos' squatters' homes that would one have been a feature of this common.
©ceridwen

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