Caersws
Caersws is a village and community on the River Severn, in the Welsh county of Powys; it was formerly in Montgomeryshire. It is located 5 miles west of Newtown, halfway between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury.Photo: Its snowing in East Asia, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 816 residents
- Description: village and community in Powys, Wales
- Also known as: “Caersŵs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caersws railway station and Maesmawr Hall.
Caersws railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Caersws railway station is on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the village of Caersws. It is notable in that there are 22 miles separating this station and Machynlleth, the longest distance between two intermediate stations in Wales.
Maesmawr Hall
Hotel
Photo: Tyssul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maesmawr Hall is a historic timber-framed house, situated to the southeast of Caersws, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, which now forms part of Powys in Wales.
Cefn Carnedd
Archaeological site
Cefn Carnedd is an Iron Age hillfort, about 1.5 miles south-west of Caersws, in Powys, Wales. It is a scheduled monument. It is on a hill overlooking the River Severn to the east, and Afon Cerist and Afon Trannon to the north; there is a river confluence to the north-east, between the fort and Caersws.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanwnnog and Pontdolgoch.
Llanwnnog
Village
Photo: Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanwnnog is a village in Powys, Wales. It is located one-and-a half miles north of Caersws in the community of the same name, on the B4568 road. The Ordnance Survey spell the name with a single 'n'. Until 1987 Llanwnog was a community.
Pontdolgoch
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontdolgoch is a very small village in Powys, Wales. It is located on the A470 road, some 2 miles northwest of Caersws. The River Carno flows through the village. Pontdolgoch is situated 2 miles northwest of Caersws.
Llandinam
Village
Photo: Ronhiggins, Public domain.
Llandinam is a village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, central Wales, between Newtown and Llanidloes, located on the A470. As a community, Llandinam is made up of the village itself, small hamlets including Plas Dinam and Little London and several farms. Llandinam is situated 2 miles south of Caersws.
Caersws
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Caersws, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.51669° or 52° 31′ 0″ northLongitude
-3.42878° or 3° 25′ 44″ westPopulation
816Elevation
407 feet (124 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AWSOpen location code
9C4RGH8C+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29730662OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Caersws” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Caersws”
- Breton: “Caersws”
- Breton: “Caersŵs”
- Bulgarian: “Кайрсус”
- Catalan: “Caersws”
- Cebuano: “Caersws”
- Chinese: “Caersws”
- Cornish: “Caersws”
- Dutch: “Caersws”
- French: “Caersws”
- Irish: “Caersws”
- Irish: “Caersŵs”
- Italian: “Caersws”
- Italian: “Caersŵs”
- Lithuanian: “Kersusas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Caersws”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caersws”
- Norwegian: “Caersws”
- Persian: “کارسوس”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caersws”
- Spanish: “Caersws”
- Swedish: “Caersws”
- Welsh: “Caersŵs”
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