Soar is a small village in

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, Wales, 37 miles North West of

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. It sits at the foot of Mynydd Epynt, and is near

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in the historic county of

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. The nearby settlement of Ffinnant - divided into the hamlets of Upper Ffinnant (Ffinnant Uchaf Soar) and Lower Ffinnant (Ffinnant Isaf Soar) - may have been the site of the Battle of Ffinnant at which Ithel ap Hywel (king of

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) was killed. The village contains a baptist chapel built in 1827 and rebuilt in 1874. Soar used to have two tailors, a midwife, a shoemaker, a blacksmith and a preacher but never had a pub.

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