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Ffos-y-ffin is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.2206°, -4.2746°.

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Ffos-y-ffin

Ffos-y-ffin in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

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Ffos-y-ffin 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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Ffos-y-ffin is a village near Aberaeron, Wales. The village is situated in Ceredigion, west Wales, and the historic county of Cardiganshire. With a population of approximately 200 residents, it serves as a small rural community offering scenic views across Cardigan Bay and access to the Ceredigion Coast Path.

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Ffos-y-ffin is a linear roadside village in the county of Ceredigion, west Wales, straddling the A487 3 km south-west of Aberaeron at National Grid reference SN 446,600. The Welsh Language Commissioner records the standard form as Ffos-y-ffin—literally 'boundary ditch'—a topographical allusion to an early field dyke still visible from the bridge at the village centre. Historical notes compiled by the Ceredigion Historical Society place the settlement on the former Cardiganshire turnpike between Aberaeron and Llwyncelyn, with scattered nineteenth-century cottages later consolidated by ribbon housing in the 1960s and 1980s. Sheltered by low coastal hills, the village looks across grazed salt…

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