Ffynnon-wen Cardiganshire

Images are sourced within 2km of 52.152/-4.038 or Grid Reference SN6052. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Ordnance Survey Cut Mark

This OS cut mark can be found on the churn stand east side of the road. It marks a point 141.877m above mean sea level. Link

Adrian Dust

Churn Stand

There is an Ordnance Survey cut mark on the front of the stand. Link

Adrian Dust

A485 at Llangybi village boundary

Colin Pyle

Derry Ormond Tower

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Sandy Gerrard

Ordnance Survey Cut Mark

This OS cut mark can be found on the gatepost south side of the road. It marks a point 189.311m above mean sea level.

Adrian Dust

Ordnance Survey Cut Mark

This OS cut mark can be found on the SW angle of St Bledrws' Church. It marks a point 133.707m above mean sea level.

Adrian Dust

Ordnance Survey Flush Bracket (G3325)

This OS Flush Bracket can be found on the roadside barn at Bettws Farm. It marks a point 133.651m above mean sea level.

Adrian Dust

A485 in Betws Bledrws

Colin Pyle

A485 by Bettws Plantation

Colin Pyle

Derry Ormond Tower

Viewed from the north.

Peter Wood

Derry Ormond Tower across the fields

Jeff Tomlinson

Derry Ormond Halt

Derry Ormond Halt served the village of Betws Bledrws immediately to the north and the nearby Derry Ormond Estate, after which it was named. It closed in 1964 with the cessation of passenger services on this line but is exceptionally well-preserved, retaining its original shelter in G.W.R. 'chocolate and cream' paint scheme. This looks northeast along the old trackbed in the east of the gridsquare

Dan Gregory

Betws Bledrws

The small village of Betws Bledrws lies three miles from Lampeter on either side of the A485. It comprises two parts: Bro Deri, a row of council houses in the north of square SN5951 and the village proper shown here. The white building is New Lodge, built in c.1840 to the design of Charles Cockerell, who also designed the house whose gate it guarded, Derry Ormond Park (demolished in 1953). Cockerell was also responsible for the designs of St. David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) and Derry Ormond Tower.

Dan Gregory

Parish church: Betws Bledrws

The 1:50000 and 1:25000 OS maps do not show unambiguously which square this is in. According to the large-scale OS digital maps, the centre-point of the church is just north of the line (by 15 cm, I estimate) so I have put it in this square. This is an "estate church" originally supported by the nearby Derry Ormond estate, and is dedicated to the obscure St Bledrws.

Dylan Moore

Main gate to the Derry Ormond estate

The main entrance to Derry Ormond Park, the seat of the Jones (Latterly Inglis-Jones) family. The house and grounds were built for John Jones in 1824-1827 to the design of by C. R. Cockerell. The mansion was sold for £3,000 in 1950, and demolished in 1953 and this gate now serves as a rather grand entrance to the handful of labourer's cottages and converted outbuildings which remain. On the right can be seen what was presumably the walled garden.

Dan Gregory

Line of the Manchester and Milford Railway

The trackbed south of Derry Ormond station, now obviously a vehicle track to somewhere. Where, or why gates of this nature are required, isn't clear.

Nigel Brown

Derry Ormond station

Originally named Bettws after the then name of the nearby village, Betws Bledrws, it was renamed to Derry Ormond, after the estate of a local influential landowner. Since SN5951 : Derry Ormond Halt was taken, it seems to have become a dumping ground for all manner of derelict machinery, a quite common occurrence around here. Perhaps planning rules don't apply.

Nigel Brown