Cwmwysg ( Welsh for "Usk valley") is a small rural community southwest of

Trecastle Trecastle ( cy, Trecastell) ("the town of the castle") is a village in Powys, Wales, situated on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park ( cy, Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) and in the community of Llywel. The village has a populatio ...

in the valley of the

Usk Usk ( cy, Brynbuga) is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, northeast of Newport. It is located on the River Usk, which is spanned by an arched stone bridge at the western entrance to the town. Usk Castle, above the town, overlooks th ...

river,

Powys Powys (; ) is a county and preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain. Geog ...

, Wales. It includes the Saron Independent Chapel, originally built in 1822 and rebuilt in 1856. The humpback stone river bridge over the Usk is Grade II listed. The Welsh painter

Aneurin Jones Aneurin M. Jones (1930 – 25 September 2017) was a Welsh painter. Life and work Jones was born in Cwm Wysg on the Brecknockshire/Carmarthenshire border to a farmer's family. He studied Fine Art at Swansea College of Art from 1950 to 1955. He ...

(1930–2017) was born in Cwmwysg.

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