Pentwyn
Pentwyn is a reservoir in Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales. Pentwyn is situated nearby to the locality Blaen-y-Glyn, as well as near Waun y Gorlan.Photo: Paul Burnett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: lake in Powys, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Pentwyn Reservoir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dolygaer railway station and Pontsticill railway station.
Dolygaer railway station
Railway station
Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dolygaer railway station was a station serving the hamlet of Dol-y-gaer and the area adjacent to Pen-twyn Reservoir in Powys, Wales.
Pontsticill railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontsticill railway station is an intermediate station on the Brecon Mountain Railway at Pontsticill, in the historic Welsh county of Brecknockshire, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.
Cefn yr Ystrad
Peak
Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.
Cefn yr Ystrad is a mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. It is an outlier of the Central Beacons group. The broad northeast - southwest aligned ridge reaches an elevation of 619 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontsticill and Pant.
Pontsticill
Village
Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontsticill is a village within the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It lies within the valley of the Taf Fechan on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Pant
Village
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pant is a village and community on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, a large former mining town in the South Wales Valleys, Wales. Pant is notable for being the starting point of the Brecon Mountain Railway, and the site of the former Morlais railway tunnel, which runs underneath the village and emerges in the middle of it.
Pentwyn
- Categories: lake and body of water
- Location: Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8262° or 51° 49′ 34″ northLongitude
-3.3764° or 3° 22′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C3RRJGF+FCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1493775078OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirWikidata ID
Q107716341
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Satellite Map
Discover Pentwyn from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Irish to Welsh—“Pentwyn” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Pentwyn”
- Welsh: “Cronfa Ddŵr Pen-twyn”
- Welsh: “Pentwyn”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Blaen-y-Glyn and Waun y Gorlan.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dolygaer Activity Centre and Pant y Creigiau.
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