Bryncrug (), sometimes spelt Bryn-crug, is a village and

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, Wales.

Afon Fathew The Afon Fathew () is a river in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The river is downstream from the Dolgoch Falls which is a popular nature site, and is followed for much of its course by the Talyllyn Railway. Name The basic name of the river in W ...

flows through the village and into the

River Dysynni The River Dysynni () is a river in mid Wales. Its source is the Tal-y-llyn Lake () just south of the Cadair Idris massif and its mouth is in the Cardigan Bay area of the Irish Sea to the north of Tywyn. It measures about in length. Course T ...

. The village is situated to the north east of the town of

Tywyn Tywyn (; ), formerly spelled Towyn, is a town, community, and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd, Wales. It was previously in the historic county of Merionethshire. It is famous as the location of the Cadfan Stone, a ...

, at the junction of the A493 and B4405 roads. Although the village is usually spelt ''Bryncrug'' in

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, the community name uses the

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version, ''Bryn-crug''. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 622. To the south west of the village stood

Ynysymaengwyn Ynysymaengwyn was a gentry house in the parish of Tywyn, Gwynedd (formerly Merioneth), situated near the left bank of the River Dysynni. The name means 'the white stone island'. Early history It was in the commote of Ystumanner or Ystum Anner ...

, a mansion built in 1758 but now demolished. To the south stood Cynfal

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castle, built in 1137 by

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, brother of

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. The poet David Richards (1751–1827), bardic name

Dafydd Ionawr David Richards (22 January 1751 – 12 May 1827), better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born at Glanyrafon near Bryn-crug in the parish of Tywyn in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd), north-west Wales. He took an in ...

, was born at Glanyrafon near Bryncrug. Mary Jones, famous for walking to

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at the age of sixteen to buy a

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, lived in the village when older, and was buried in the village after her death in 1864. The football club, Tywyn & Bryncrug FC (

: Clwb Pêl-droed Tywyn a Bryncrug), play their home matches in the village.

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