Hay-on-Wye
Sign in to saveHay-on-Wye, or simply Hay (; or simply ), is a market town and community in Powys, Wales. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as a "town of books"; it is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. The community had a population of 1,675 at the 2021 census.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.welsh_name
- Y Gelli Gandryll
- UK place.official_name
- Hay-on-Wye
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.community_wales
- Hay
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Powys
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Powys
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Brecon and Radnorshire
- UK place.post_town
- HEREFORD
- UK place.postcode_district
- HR3
- UK place.postcode_area
- HR
- UK place.dial_code
- 01497
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO225425
- UK place.static_image_name
- Hay-on-Wye Clock Tower (2).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Hay on Wye clock-tower
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- book town
- Official name
- Hay-on-Wye
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1598
- Official website
- www.hay-on-wye.co.uk
- Image
- Hay on Wye Bookshop2.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Timbuktu
- Commons category
- Hay-on-Wye
- OS grid reference
- SO225425
- topic's main category
- Category:Hay-on-Wye
- historic county
- Brecknockshire
- P8168
- Parham
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Andrew Johnson
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Location
- Toponymy
- History
- Book town
- Hay Festival
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Transport
- Sport
- Music and philosophy
- Notable buildings
- Kingdom of Hay-on-Wye
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Hay-on-Wye, or simply Hay (; or simply ), is a market town and community in Powys, Wales. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as a "town of books"; it is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. The community had a population of 1,675 at the 2021 census.
The town is twinned with Redu, a village in the Belgian municipality of Libin, and with Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hay-on-Wye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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