Rhayader
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,820 residents
- Description: town in Wales, Radnorshire, UK
- Also known as: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rhayader Castle and Rhayader Library.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanwrthwl and Nant Glas.
Llanwrthwl
Village
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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. Llanwrthwl is situated 2½ miles south of Rhayader.
Nant Glas
Hamlet
Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Nant Glas is situated 2½ miles southeast of Rhayader.
St Harmon
Village
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St Harmon is a village and community in Radnorshire, Powys, Wales. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 593. It is located on the Afon Marteg on the B4518 road running between Llanidloes and Rhayader. St Harmon is situated 3½ miles north of Rhayader.
Rhayader
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.2995° or 52° 17′ 58″ northLongitude
-3.51° or 3° 30′ 36″ westPopulation
1,820Elevation
719 feet (219 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RYAOpen location code
9C4R7FXR+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 255304915OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Rhayader” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rhayader”
- Breton: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
- Bulgarian: “Рейъдър”
- Catalan: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
- Cebuano: “Rhayader”
- Chinese: “Rhayader”
- Chinese: “賴厄德”
- Chinese: “赖厄德”
- Cornish: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
- Dutch: “Rhayader”
- Esperanto: “Rhayader”
- French: “Rhayader”
- German: “Rhayader”
- Irish: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
- Italian: “Rhayader”
- Japanese: “ラアアデル”
- Lithuanian: “Rajaderis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rhayader”
- Persian: “ریادر”
- Polish: “Rhayader”
- Russian: “Райадер”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
- Spanish: “Rhayader”
- Swedish: “Rhayader”
- Welsh: “Rhaeadr Gwy”
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