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Three Cocks Village

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NPRN402633
Map ReferenceSO13NE
Grid ReferenceSO1734537833
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPowys
Old CountyBrecknockshire
CommunityGwernyfed
Type Of SiteVILLAGE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Three Cocks or Aberllynfi is a village near Glasbury in Powys, Wales. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye some 5 miles (8.5 km) to the North East.
The English name of the village is comparatively recent and was taken from the former railway station (Three Cocks Junction, now a garden centre) where the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway met the Mid-Wales Railway. The station derived its name from the 15th century Three Cocks Inn (a coaching inn, still extant, which in turn took its name from the armorial bearings of former local landowners, the Williams family of Old Gwernyfed. These were supposed to have been based on the arms of the medieval Welsh prince Einon Sais, who lived in Aberllynfi, but this is probably a later invention. The station, together with all the services which ran through it, was closed in December 1962.
Photographed during RCAHMW aerial reconnaissance in June 2014.
Additional source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cocks

RCAHMW, 17 July 2017