Nant Glas
Nant Glas is a village in the Elan Valley near Rhayader and Llandrindod Wells in Powys, Wales. It is on a side road between the A44 to the northeast and the A470 to the southwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in the county of Powys, Wales
- Also known as: “Nant-glas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llyn Gwyn and Rhayader Castle.
Rhayader Castle
Castle
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhayader Castle is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in the town of Rhayader, Powys, Wales. The available documentary sources are not clear enough to distinguish between this site and the castle mound across the river and one or the other was probably built by Rhys ap Gruffydd, Prince of Deheubarth, in 1177. Rhayader Castle is situated 2½ miles northwest of Nant Glas.
Rhayader Museum and Gallery
Museum
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhayader Museum and Gallery is situated 2½ miles northwest of Nant Glas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanwrthwl and Rhayader.
Llanwrthwl
Village
Photo: Stephen Elwyn RODDICK, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanwrthwl is a village and community in Powys, mid Wales, and the historic county of Brecknockshire. Llanwrthwl lies off the A470 road, north by road from Builth Wells and Newbridge-on-Wye and south of Rhayader.
Rhayader
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Rhayader is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, within the historic county of Radnorshire. The town is 20 miles from the source of the River Wye on Plynlimon, the highest point of the Cambrian Mountains, and is located at the junction of the A470 road and the A44 road 13 miles north of Builth Wells and 30 miles east of Aberystwyth.
Nantmel
Village
Photo: Mark Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nantmel is a village and a community in Radnorshire, Powys, Wales, and is 76.5 miles from Cardiff and 150.5 miles from London. In 2011 the population of Nantmel was 621 with 11.8% of them able to speak Welsh. Nantmel is situated 2½ miles east of Nant Glas.
Nant Glas
- Category: locality
- Location: Nantmel, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.27471° or 52° 16′ 29″ northLongitude
-3.47472° or 3° 28′ 29″ westElevation
787 feet (240 metres)Open location code
9C4R7GFG+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29274509OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Nant Glas” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nant Glas”
- Breton: “Nant Glas”
- Dutch: “Nant Glas”
- French: “Nant Glas”
- Irish: “Nant-glas”
- Welsh: “Nant-glas”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nant Glas”. Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.