Where is Bettws-y-Crwyn?

Bettws-y-Crwyn is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.4230°, -3.1710°.

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Bettws-y-Crwyn

Also known as: Betws-y-crwyn

Bettws-y-Crwyn in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Telephone box at Bettws-y-Crwyn - geograph.org.uk - 1921390 — Oliver Dixon — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Bettws-y-Crwyn is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Bettws-y-Crwyn is a small, remote village and civil parish in south-west Shropshire, England. It is close to the England–Wales border and is one of a number of English villages to have a Welsh language placename.

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The parish, including the hamlets of Anchor (which has a pub of the same name), Quabbs and Hall of the Forest had a total population of 212 at the 2001 census, increasing to 239 at the 2011 census. It lies at 400 m above sea level, making it one of the highest settlements in Shropshire and England too. The village is about 16 mi west of the Shropshire town of Craven Arms, and only about 9 mi south-east of Newtown in Powys, Wales. Bettws had a school which closed in 1951; its building is now the village hall, containing a First World War memorial board. The parish lies within the Clun electoral division of Shropshire Council.

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