The A489, officially known as the Newtown to Machynlleth Trunk Road in Wales, is a trunk road in the

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running from Craven Arms,

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Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a po ...

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and crossing the Wales-England border. The road starts about one mile north of Craven Arms. From here it travels through Lydham, Churchstoke, Newtown,

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Cemmaes Road Cemmaes Road (; ) is a village in Powys, Wales. It is in the Community (Wales), community (civil parish) of Glantwymyn. The village was named in English language, English after the now-closed station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway, now ...

and Machynlleth. Between Caersws and Cemmaes Road, the road is concurrent with the A470, which takes priority. Similarly in Lydham, albeit for a much shorter distance, the road overlaps with the A488. A new section of road, the Newtown Bypass, was completed in 2019.

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