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Dist:0.2km<br/>On my older edition of the Ordnance Survey map this house is marked by a cross indicating a religious building. I think it was the church hall as there is a church of the same name half a mile to the south. This building is now used as a dwelling house.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.4km<br/>Standing beside the A475 is a milestone. Milestones are the original roadside heritage features with many dating back hundreds of years and these historic items are under threat from highway developments. Milestones did not come into general use until the Turnpike Act of 1766 made them compulsory on turnpike roads, these roads were built by private enterprise under licence from the Government and maintained by tolls on those who used them. Before this Act milestones were put up occasionally, often as charitable acts and commemorations. Many Turnpike Act stones still exist. They are usually 2-3 ft high, with the initial letter or abbreviation of the nearest market town show on two faces, and the distance from it.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The milestone is beside the A475 and has an Ordnance Survey bench mark engraved into the face. For a wider view http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2086021 and for further information about the bench mark http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35625 A bench mark is an Ordnance Survey arrowhead sign found on walls, bridges, churches and specially erected triangulation pillars where the altitude above sea-level has been accurately measured by surveyors. The arrowhead points to a horizontal line above it which marks the exact altitude. With rivets and pivots there is no datum (horizontal line) cut, the pointed-to horizontal surface defining the datum height.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is the only house anywhere near the church now. A vicar no longer lives here because Llanfair Orllwyn is part of a group of churches with one vicar between them.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.6km<br/>This church is in an isolated spot on a dead-end road and it is difficult to imagine why it was built in this spot, so far from the nearby villages. Perhaps the explanation is that there was an earlier church on this spot centuries ago, and at that time people did live close by, in houses that no longer exist.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.7km<br/>Pub and restaurant at Penrhiwllan standing on the opposite side of the A475 from the junction with the unclassified road to Croeslan and the post office.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.7km<br/>This group of Jerseys seems to consist of one adult cow and several calves of different ages, one of which is suckling in the photograph. The steep-sided hill in the background seems to have more trees on it than you would expect from looking at the map. There are probably no livestock grazing there allowing scrub and later trees to grow.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.8km<br/>An iron age fort now covered in trees but once a place of refuge surrounded by banks and ditches. There is still water in the ditch near the bottom of the photograph and it looks as if badgers have taken up residence, producing well worn paths when they go out to forage.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.8km<br/>Tucked away between the road and the stream near Trebedw, this sewage pumping station is owned by Dwr Cymru. It has an electricity supply from the pole in the picture to power the pump. Cycle Route 82 passes this spot.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.9km<br/>The river is meandering down this wider part of its course, and this deep pool near the bend is a favourite haunt of fishermen.
©Marion Phillips
Dist:0.9km<br/>The A475 takes an extraordinary sidestep in Aber-banc to facilitate crossing the steep sided valley of Afon Cynllo. The road's situation is complicated by its junction with the B4334. It's a case where less velocity for the velocipede is better than more!
©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.9km<br/>Junction of Newcastle Emlyn and Henllan roads.
©John Duckfield
Dist:1.0km southwest<br/>Once the boiler is fired up and the head of steam returns.Life returned to the sleeping engine. Broken machines celebrate.
©patrick connolly
Dist:1.0km southwest<br/>
©Row17

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