Llangynyw (also Llangyniew) is a hamlet and

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, villag ...

Montgomeryshire , HQ= Montgomery , Government= Montgomeryshire County Council (1889–1974)Montgomeryshire District Council (1974–1996) , Origin= , Status= , Start= , End= ...

Powys Powys (; ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh succession of states, successor state, petty kingdom and princi ...

, mid

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

. It is located on a hill inside a bend in the River Banwy, approximately two miles north-east of

Llanfair Caereinion Llanfair Caereinion is a market town and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales upon the River Banwy (also known as the River Einion), around 8 miles west of Welshpool. In 2011 the ward had a population of 1,810; the town itself had a po ...

. The community includes the hamlet of Pontrobert. The focus of the hamlet is the Parish Church of St. Cynyw, which dates from between 1450 and 1500 and is a

Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern I ...

building. The parish of Llangynyw had a population of 551 when the 1801 census was taken, 430 in 1901, and 295 in 1971, increasing back to 582 at the 2011 census.

Pentre Camp Pentre Camp is an Iron Age hillfort, near the hamlet of Llangynyw and about north-east of Llanfair Caereinion, in Powys, Wales. It is a scheduled monument. Description The fort is an oval, about by , enclosing an area of . There are several con ...

, an Iron Age hillfort, is near the hamlet.

References

External links

Llangyniew Community Council website
* ttps://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ1208 Photographs of Llangynyw and the surrounding area, Geograph Villages in Powys {{Powys-geo-stub