Country: | Wales |
Welsh Name: | Pont-rhyd-y-groes |
Official Name: | Pont-rhyd-y-groes |
Coordinates: | 52.3382°N -3.849°W |
Unitary Wales: | Ceredigion |
Lieutenancy Wales: | Dyfed |
Constituency Westminster: | Ceredigion Preseli |
Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Ceredigion |
Post Town: | YSTRAD MEURIG |
Postcode District: | SY25 |
Postcode Area: | SY |
Dial Code: | 01974 |
Os Grid Reference: | SN740727 |
Cardiff Distance Mi: | 90 |
Cardiff Distance: | SE |
Static Image: | Pont-Rhyd-y-groes-by-OLU.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 230px |
Static Image Caption: | Pont-Rhyd-y-groes, the bridge over the Ystwyth. |
Pont-rhyd-y-groes (also known as Pontrhydygroes, English: the bridge of the ford of the cross) is a village near Cwm Ystwyth and Pont ar Fynach (Devil's Bridge), in Ceredigion, Wales. The village takes its name from the bridge (Welsh: pont) and (earlier) ford (Welsh: rhyd) over the River Ystwyth.
The area used to be dominated by the mining industry, in particular by the Lisburnes. The miners' bridge across the Ystwyth gorge and the waterfall have been rebuilt.
The remnants of the Fron Goch mines, which mined lead and zinc from ca. 1760 until ca. 1903, are situated approximately miles (km) north of the village.[1]