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Llanbister is a small village and
There is a Victorian pub and bed and breakfast hotel (The Lion Hotel) in the village and a caravan and camping site to the north west of the village, near the former police station.
There is an area of common land to the east of the village, named Llanbister Common. In July 1991 an unlicensed free music festival was held there, which was not well received by the local population, so in summer 1992 manure was spread on the land to make a repeat less likely. There is evidence of possible medieval ridge and furrow cultivation on Llanbister Common.
In 2018 the horror film You Should Have Left was partly filmed at a property near Llanbister, the
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community
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with a 2011 population of 382 in 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 ...
, mid Wales, in the historic county of Radnorshire.
Facilities
The village is not directly served by a railway station: the nearest isLlanbister Road railway station
Llanbister Road railway station is a countryside stop about from the village of Llanbister, Powys, Wales. The station is south west of Shrewsbury on the Heart of Wales Line.
The unstaffed station is located at street level adjacent to the br ...
which is about 5 miles east of the village. It is served by a bus service (the T4 operated by Stagecoach Wales) which connects Cardiff
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to Newtown via Merthyr Tydfil, Brecon
Brecon (; cy, Aberhonddu; ), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701. The population in 2001 was 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census. Historically it was the coun ...
, Builth Wells and Llandrindod Wells.
Llanbister is situated on the A483 main road from Newtown to Llandrindod Wells
Llandrindod Wells (, ; cy, Llandrindod, /ɬanˈdɾindɔd/ "Trinity Parish"), sometimes known colloquially as Llandod, is a town and community in Powys, within the historic boundaries of Radnorshire, Wales. It serves as the seat of Powy ...
, at its junction with the B4356 road. It also lies next to the River Ithon which flows southward just west of the village.
In the past, there was a police station in Llanbister, on the north west outskirts of the village, but this has since been sold off as private housing.
Other facilities include a primary school, Llanbister C P School, a children's play area and a 200-person capacity community hall built in 1996 which has a stage and a 6.25m x 4m dance floor. There used to be a Post Office in the centre of the village but it is no longer operating: it was proposed for closure in 2008.
There is a Victorian pub and bed and breakfast hotel (The Lion Hotel) in the village and a caravan and camping site to the north west of the village, near the former police station.
There is an area of common land to the east of the village, named Llanbister Common. In July 1991 an unlicensed free music festival was held there, which was not well received by the local population, so in summer 1992 manure was spread on the land to make a repeat less likely. There is evidence of possible medieval ridge and furrow cultivation on Llanbister Common.
In 2018 the horror film You Should Have Left was partly filmed at a property near Llanbister, the John Pawson
John Ward Pawson , (born 1949, Halifax, England) is a British architect whose work is known for its minimalist aesthetic. Architectural Registration Board (ARB) of UK asked Dezeen magazine not to refer him as architect although this was criti ...
-designed Life House (Tŷ Bywyd) just east of the village.
Churches
The village has an Anglican church in the centre, St Cynllo's Parish Church (part of theChurch in Wales
The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The p ...
), parts of which date from around AD 1300, as well as a Methodist church on the southern outskirts.
Notable residents
Eleanor Bufton, the actress, was born here in 1842.Joseph Knight, ‘Bufton , Eleanor (1842–1893)’, rev. J. Gilliland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200accessed 25 Jan 2015
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References
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