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Dist:0.4km<br/>The wooden bridge is narrow and the handrail is set high, so feels a little awkward to cross. It serves a vital purpose though, as in wet weather the valley is obviously a quagmire.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>The footpath here follows a small earthen embankment through woodland.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Pontdroed wedi ei wneud o hen 'sleepers' rheilffordd ar Lwybr Landsker, Llanboidy Footbridge made from old railway sleepers on Landsker Trail, Llanboidy
©Alan Richards
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©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.5km<br/>A corn mill that operated until 1945.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Llanboidy village is divided into two hamlets, upper and lower (Uchaf and Isaf).
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Another view of this house at the south-eastern end of the village – a popular subject!
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km<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:0.6km<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!).
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Dist:0.6km<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:0.6km<br/>This castle mound is in a field near to the 'Maesgwynne Arms'.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km<br/>is the name of the house. The somewhat rusty railings are the bridge over Afon Gronw.
©Roger W Haworth
Dist:0.6km<br/>These two adjacent properties are both, it seems, unoccupied and were I assume previously lived in by elderly residents, as the furniture and decor is firmly stuck way back in time. Very poignant time capsules. If modernised and 'improved' I hope they don't lose their character.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.7km<br/>A lane that does not go anywhere in particular, but links with a lane south-eastwards to Meidrim.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.7km<br/>What a magnificent village hall. There isn't one thing about it that I dislike. And plenty to really like.
©Jeremy Bolwell

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