Forden with Leighton and Trelystan

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Forden with Leighton and Trelystan (en anglais) ou Ffordun gyda Thre'r-llai a Threlystan (en gallois) est une communauté du Powys, au pays de Galles.

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Nearby Places

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Nantcribba

Nantcribba is a township in the parish of Forden in the historic county of Montgomeryshire and now in Powys It is also the site of Nantcribba Castle which was built by the Corbett, Barons of Caus, of Caus Castle in Shropshire. To the south of the Castle site was Nantcribba Hall, which was owned by the Devereux family and the Marquises of Hereford. In the 19th century Nantcribba became part of the Leighton Hall estates.

Castle Historic Site

Leighton Hall, Powys

Leighton Hall is an estate located to the east of Welshpool in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys, in Wales. Leighton Hall is a listed grade I property. It is located on the opposite side of the valley of the river Severn to Powis Castle. The Leighton Hall Estate is particularly notable for the hall which was decorated and furnished by the Craces to designs by Pugin in his Houses of Parliament style, for the Home Farm, a model farm, which was to be in the forefront of the Victorian industrialised High Farming, and for the gardens which have their own Grade I listing on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. Leighton Hall was also the birthplace of the much disparaged hybrid Cupressocyparis leylandii hedge tree. The hall is in private ownership and is not accessible to the public, although it can still be viewed from the road. The home farm is currently under restoration.

Historic Site Landmark

Forden

Forden is a village near Welshpool in Powys, Wales, formerly in the historic county of Montgomeryshire. It forms part of the community of Forden with Leighton and Trelystan with the neighbouring settlements of Trelystan, Leighton and Kingswood. Looking down on the parish is the Long Mountain, which stretches north eastwards from Forden through the border between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, England.

Landmark Neighbourhood

Church of St Michael and All Angels, Forden

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a church in Forden, Powys, Wales, located about half a mile to the west of the road from Welshpool to Montgomery. For some three hundred years the church was the burial-place of the family of Devereux, whose estate of Nantcribba is within the parish. The marble font, oval in shape, was presented in 1794 by Richard Edmunds, Esq. It was enlarged in 1830. The architect was Thomas Nicholson and the stained glass was designed by Edward Burne-Jones.

Church Landmark

Trelystan

Trelystan is a remote parish and township on the border of the historic county of Montgomeryshire with Shropshire. Trelystan now forms part of the community of Forden with Leighton and Trelystan in Powys, having previously been its own community until 1987. Trelystan was a chapel of ease within the parish of Worthen and it also served the township of Leighton. In some old sources the parish is also referred to as Wolston Mynd.

Church Historic Site

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Géographie

La communauté de Forden with Leighton and Trelystan se trouve dans le nord-est du Powys, dans le comté historique du Montgomeryshire, le long de la frontière entre l'Angleterre et le pays de Galles, entre les villes de Welshpool au nord et Montgomery au sud. Comme son nom l'indique, elle se compose des villages et hameaux de Forden / Ffordun (en), Leighton / Tre'r-llai (cy) et Trelystan (en). Elle comprend également le village de Kingswood / Coedybrenin (cy).

Démographie

Au recensement de 2011, la communauté de Forden with Leighton and Trelystan comptait 1 426 habitants.

Culture locale et patrimoine

La communauté comprend plus de 100 monuments classés. Le manoir de Leighton Hall (en), construit entre 1850 et 1856, est un monument classé de grade I depuis 1982.