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- Locality
- Painscastle
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Painscastle
- UK place.type
- Village and community
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.static_image_name
- Painscastle - geograph.org.uk - 403187.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Painscastle, aerial view
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Powys
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Official name
- Castell-paen
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Powys
- Population
- 483
- Area
- 5487.45
- Image
- Painscastle - geograph.org.uk - 403187.jpg
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- Commons category
- Painscastle
- historic county
- Radnorshire
- P8168
- monophyly
- OS grid reference
- SO165465
- P12749
- Coassolo Torinese
Sources (5)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Castle
- References
- External links
thumb|Adullam Baptist Chapel, Painscastle
Painscastle () is a village and community in Powys (formerly Radnorshire), Wales which takes its name from the castle at its heart. It lies between Builth and Hay-on-Wye, approximately 3 miles from the Wales-England border today. The community also includes the villages and settlements of Rhosgoch, Bryngwyn, Llandeilo Graban and Llanbedr. The population as of the 2011 UK Census was 524. It is represented by the Painscastle and Rhosgoch Community Council, which comprises eight community councillors. It is included in the Glasbury electoral ward for Powys County Council elections.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Painscastle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations