Penybontfawr Traditional Cache
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A small cache but big enough to hold a few little trinkets and a log book and pencil.
I placed this cache here after spending a night or two at my parents caravan just down the road. I thought i'd just drop one here whilst we stopped to change the babies nappy!!
Penybontfawr is a 19th-century village and surroundings, with church, chapel, school and inn which grew up at the junction of turnpikes, and superseding more remote medieval parish centre. Penybontfawr has the hills of Cyrniau character area to the west.
It is a late 18th- and early 19th-century settlement built at the crossroads of two turnpike roads linking the borderland with west and north-west Wales. The village is unique in Montgomeryshire in being a relatively modern settlement that became an ecclesiastical parish and civil community in its own right.
A small village of about 250 inhabitants in a predominantly farming area.
The village lies at the foot of the Berwyn Mountains in the lovely Tanat Valley, with the stillness of the Pilgrimage Shrine of St Melangell in Pennant Melangell at its head. Close by is one of the seven wonders of Wales, Pistyll Rhyaeadr (it really is worth a visit there- there is a couple of caches that way too)and the village of Llanrhaeadr–ym-Mochnant itself, where in 1588 the then Vicar, who later became Bishop William Morgan, translated the Bible into Welsh. It is near to the well known Lake Vyrnwy which was built to supply the city of Liverpool with water. The natural Lake Bala is very close too, as are the market towns of Welshpool and Oswestry. The Marches towns of Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Hereford are an easy day trip, as too are the seaside resorts on Cardigan Bay in the other direction.
The roads around here are amazing (if you like a chance to put your foot down once in a while!!)
Happy hunting! Hint to follow after FTF
Additional Hints
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Uvag gb sbyybj nsgre SGS