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Penparcau
Sign in to savePenparcau () is a village and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales, situated to the south of Aberystwyth.
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Place details
- Locality
- Penparcau
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 3,088
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Toponym
- History
- Mesolithic
- Submerged Forest
- Bronze and Iron Ages
- Modern History
- Culture
- Notable residents
- Governance
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- Myth, folklore and legend
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Penparcau () is a village and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales, situated to the south of Aberystwyth.
The original village was a hamlet, but the building of extensive Art Deco style semi-detached social housing from the 1920s on transformed it. It lies in the shadow of the Celtic Iron Age hill fort of Pen Dinas, and between the sea at Tan Y Bwlch beach, the River Ystwyth and the Rheidol. Penparcau has the only UNESCO Biosphere reserve in the Dyfi Biosphere. A section of the Wales Coast Path runs over Tan y Bwlch beach.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penparcau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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