Groesffordd is a small village within the community of Llanfrynach in the county of Powys, Wales, and the historic county of Brecknockshire. The Welsh name signifies the 'crossroads'. It lies just to the east of Brecon straddling the northern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The village sits just to the north of the A40 road between Brecon and Crickhowell and north of the River Usk and Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
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Groesffordd Halt railway station was a station situated to the east of Brecon, Powys, Wales. The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1934 and was closed in 1962. The station was demolished after closure, the area covered by a housing development.
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Llechfaen is a village about 2 miles east of Brecon, Powys, Wales, in the foothills between the Brecon Beacons to the west and the Black Mountains to the east.
The surrounding villages include Groesffordd, Llanywern and Llanfihangel Tal-y-llyn to the east.
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The Infantry Battle School, Brecon is a British Army training establishment at Dering Lines in Brecon, Wales.
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Fforest Fawr Geopark is a Geopark in the Brecon Beacons National Park, south Wales. It is the first designated Geopark in Wales having gained membership of both the European Geoparks Network and the UNESCO-assisted Global Network of National Geoparks in October 2005. The Geopark aims to promote and support sustainable tourism and other opportunities to improve the economy of the area whilst safeguarding the natural environment. Its aims largely coincide with the statutory duties and purpose of the National Park within which it sits.
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Brecon Congregational Memorial College was a Congregational college in Brecon, Powys, Mid Wales. The college graduated ministers and missionaries who were posted to Africa and India. There were classes in biblical literature, chemistry, classical languages, logic, psychology, theism, theology, trigonometry, German language, and Welsh language. The college was established in Carmarthen in 1757, and was located in Brecon from 1839. The Memorial College building in Brecon was opened in 1869. After the last principal left in 1959, the college was closed. The building is now named Camden Court and is used for sheltered housing.
The track of the former Brecon and Merthyr Railway runs through the village The population of the whole community (not just Groesffordd) as taken at the 2011 census was 571.