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Penpont

Nearest town: Brecon

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: Bettws Penpont Church - no dedication

Diocese: Swansea and Brecon

County: Powys

Country: Wales

Grid ref: SN97282852

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: 5-Aug-98

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Church in Wales

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 7m+, Lost

Notes: It is suggested that the present younger yews replaced a circle of ancient yews, long gone. 'A medieval chapel on this site is a possibility' (CPAT). Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849) describes the chapel as 'a very small neat edifice with a cupola at the west end, pleasantly situated close to the turnpike-road, in an extensive cemetery, inclosed within a ring fence, and surrounded with some venerable yews of luxuriant growth, intermixed with other trees'.

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