Crickhowell
Crickhowell
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![]() Crickhowell Market Hall and the Lucas Memorial Fountain | |
Location within Powys | |
Population | 2,063 (2011)[1] |
OS grid reference | SO217186 |
Principal area | |
Preserved county | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CRICKHOWELL |
Postcode district | NP8 |
Dialling code | 01873 |
Police | Dyfed-Powys |
Fire | Mid and West Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
Brecon & Radnorshire | |
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Crickhowell (/krɪkˈhaʊəl/; Welsh: Crucywel pronounced [krɨkːəu̯ɛl], non-standard spelling Crughywel) is a town and community in southeastern Powys, Wales, near Abergavenny, and is in the historic county of Brecknockshire.
Location
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The town lies on the
Etymology and language
The name Crickhowell is an anglicised spelling that corresponds to the
The town
![Engraving of Crickhowell Castle by James Basire (1805)](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Crickhowel_Castle._From_a_Survey_in_the_beginning_of_the_6th_Cent.jpeg/220px-Crickhowel_Castle._From_a_Survey_in_the_beginning_of_the_6th_Cent.jpeg)
Public services in Crickhowell are provided by
The churches in Crickhowell include
In 2015, Crickhowell appeared in a TV documentary, claiming it as the first British settlement to purposely use similar tax avoidance tactics used by multinational businesses to avoid paying taxes themselves, in protest at the way large corporations use legal loopholes to avoid paying UK corporation tax.[9]
A market and fair have been recorded since 1281.[10]
Governance
An
Tourism
Today, Crickhowell is a popular
Notable buildings
Notable features in Crickhowell include the seventeenth-century stone bridge over the River Usk with its odd arches (twelve on one side, thirteen on the other) and its seat built into the walls, the 14th-century parish church of St Edmund, and the ruins of Crickhowell Castle on the green "tump" set back from the A40 Brecon to Abergavenny road.[14]
Market Hall
Crickhowell Market Hall (originally the Town Hall) on The Square dates from 1834, nowadays with market stalls on the ground floor and a cafe in the first floor old courtroom. In 2007 Powys County Council handed over responsibility of the hall to a charity, the Market Hall Trust.[15] The stone building, raised on twin doric columns, is Grade II* listed.[16]
Schools
Crickhowell has two schools: Crickhowell Community Primary School and a secondary school, Crickhowell High School.[17]
Notable people
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- Watkin Herbert (ca.1517 – ca.1564), a politician and MP for Breconshire in 1558.
- Admiral John Gell (1740–1806), a commander in the Royal Navy for 30 years, died locally.[18]
- Colonel Sir George Everest (1790–1866), eponym for Mount Everest. Surveyor and geographer, served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. His father had an estate nearby called "Gwernvale Manor".[19]
- Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, 1st Baronet (1871–1956), a Royal Navy officer in both World Wars
- Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell (1934–2018), politician and MP for Pembrokeshire from 1970 until 1987 and Secretary of State for Wales
- Sir Roderic Llewellyn, 5th Baronet (born 1947), baronet, garden designer, journalist, author, and TV presenter.
- Roger Williams (born 1948), politician and MP for Brecon and Radnorshire from 2001 to 2015.
- caver
- Mark Wyatt (born 1957), played ten games for Wales national rugby union team
- royal nanny. Her childhood home was Glanusk Park estate. She still lives near the town as proprietor of Tŷ'r Chanter bed and breakfast lodgings.[20]
Golf course
The former Crickhowell & Penmyarth Golf Club was founded in 1897 and played on a course at Glanusk Park. The club and course disappeared in the late 1960s.[21]
Surrounding villages
- Cwmdu[22]
- Glangrwyney[23]
- Llanbedr[24][25]
- Llangenny[28]
- Llangynidr[29][30]
- Tretower—[31] Tretower Castle and Tretower Court, a manor house still in very good condition
References
- ^ "Town population 2011". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ^ "Glanusk Park". Victorian Crickhowell. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ Hywel Wyn Owen and Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2007), p. 102.
- ^ Southall, John E. (1893). Wales and her language. D. Nutt.
- ^ "Crickhowell High Street (C) George Tod". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Welcome". The Dragon. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "Crickhowell Evangelical Church".
- ^ "St Joseph Catholic Church". Catholic Directory. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- Independent.co.uk. 10 November 2015.
- ^ "Wales - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ^ "Your Councillors". powys.moderngov.co.uk (in Welsh). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ Sherwin, Adam (1 December 2013). "'It's nice to go bonkers in a field': The Green Man music festival's". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ Martin Shipton (7 August 2008) "Cafe war breaks out over market hall", Wales Online. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ "Welcome". Crickhowell High School. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ The Literary Panorama. Cox, Son and Baylis. 1807. p. 1385. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ISBN 9781474226653.
- ^ The Tiggy Experience Archived 8 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine at tyrchanter.com, official web site. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
- ^ "Crickhowell & Penmyarth Golf Club, Glanusk Park, Powys". Golf's Missing Links.
- ^ "Church of the Archangel Michael, Cwmdu (C) Jonathan Billinger". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "The Blue Bell Inn (C) Jennifer Luther Thomas". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ Ian Rushin. "Llanbedr Church and Table Mountain". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ Ian Rushin. "Llanbedr below Sugar Loaf". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal,... (C) George Tod". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Llangattock (C) Jonathan Billinger". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Descending the Sugar Loaf towards... (C) John Thorn". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Llangynidr Bridge in spring (C) Alan Bowring". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Mynydd Llangynidr (C) Peter Wasp". www.geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Tretower Court (C) andy dolman". www.geograph.org.uk.
External links
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