Pentrefoelas

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Village and community in Conwy, Wales

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::summary Village and community in Conwy, Wales ::

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Field	Value
static_image_name	Pentrefoelas, The Foelas Arms - geograph.org.uk - 55301.jpg
static_image_caption	The Foelas Arms
label_position	bottom
official_name	Pentrefoelas
country	Wales
os_grid_reference	SH872514
coordinates
population	356
population_ref	(2011)
community_wales	Pentrefoelas
unitary_wales	Conwy
lieutenancy_wales	Clwyd
constituency_welsh_assembly	Clwyd West
constituency_westminster	Bangor Aberconwy
post_town	BETWS-Y-COED
postcode_district	LL24
postcode_area	LL
dial_code	01690
module	[[File:Wales Conwy Community Pentrefoelas map.svg
Map of the community
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Pentrefoelas is a village and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The village lies on the A5 road between Betws-y-Coed to the west and Cerrigydrudion to the east. Afon Merddwr, a tributary of the River Conwy, flows through it. The community had a population of 356 in the 2011 census, 70% were able to speak Welsh. It has an area of 53.86 km2 and covers a large region around the village including part of Mynydd Hiraethog, Llyn Alwen and part of Alwen Reservoir. It is in the electoral ward of Llangernyw. The community includes the small settlement of Rhydlydan.

The name of the village comes from and a nearby hill, Foel Las (). The hill is the site of a motte built around 1164 in the time of Owain Gwynedd. Old Voelas House (or Plas Foel Las), mansion of the Wynne family, was built at the foot of the hill in 1545. It was demolished in 1819 and a new site was established two kilometres to the west. The current Voelas Hall was built in 1961 and was designed by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis.

Other buildings around the village include:

Plas Iolyn, home to Rhys Fawr ap Maredudd, his son Robert ap Rhys (the chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey), his grandson the 16th-century MP Elis Prys (known as Dr Coch and notorious for his oppression of the district) and his great-grandson, the poet Tomos Prys. It is now a farmhouse.
Gilar, built in the 16th century for the poet Rhys Wyn ap Cadwaladr (fl. c. 1600), perhaps by his father Cadwaladr ap Maurice after receiving a substantial grant of land from Henry VIII in 1545–1546, which included the land later occupied by Plas Iolyn and Old Voelas House.
The village had a chapelry of Ysbyty Ifan built in 1766 and known as Voelas Chapel. The Parish Church was built on the same site in 1857–1859.
The Pentrefoelas watermill (Melin Voelas) for grinding flour dates from 1815 and was restored by Clwyd County Council as part of a heritage scheme. The ironwork for the external overshot waterwheel was originally cast by the Llanrwst Foundry probably sometime in the 19th century File:Pentrefoelas.jpg|View towards the village File:Plas Iolyn 768546.jpg|Plas Iolyn File:Gilar - geograph.org.uk - 768450.jpg|Gilar File:The church, Pentrefoelas NLW3361362.jpg|Parish Church c. 1875 File:Graveyard, Pentrefoelas - geograph.org.uk - 612273.jpg|Graveyard, Pentrefoelas File:Pentrefoelas, watermill - geograph.org.uk - 55300.jpg|Pentrefoelas watermill

Climate

|Jan high C = 6.3 |Feb high C = 6.4 |Mar high C = 8.4 |Apr high C = 11.1 |May high C = 14.4 |Jun high C = 16.6 |Jul high C = 18.4 |Aug high C = 17.8 |Sep high C = 15.8 |Oct high C = 12.2 |Nov high C = 9.0 |Dec high C = 6.8 |year high C = |Jan mean C = 3.1 |Feb mean C = 3.2 |Mar mean C = 4.7 |Apr mean C = 6.8 |May mean C = 9.8 |Jun mean C = 12.3 |Jul mean C = 14.3 |Aug mean C = 13.9 |Sep mean C = 11.8 |Oct mean C = 8.8 |Nov mean C = 5.9 |Dec mean C = 3.6 |year mean C = |Jan low C = 0.0 |Feb low C = 0.1 |Mar low C = 0.9 |Apr low C = 2.6 |May low C = 5.3 |Jun low C = 8.0 |Jul low C = 10.1 |Aug low C = 9.8 |Sep low C = 7.8 |Oct low C = 5.4 |Nov low C = 2.7 |Dec low C = 0.5 |year low C = |Jan record low C = -16.7 |Feb record low C = -16.7 |Mar record low C = -17.2 |Apr record low C = -9.5 |May record low C = -6.1 |Jun record low C = -2.5 |Jul record low C = -1.1 |Aug record low C = -1.1 |Sep record low C = -3.3 |Oct record low C = -5.0 |Nov record low C = -12.0 |Dec record low C = -16.8 |year record low C = |unit rain days= 1.0 mm |Jan rain mm = 149.4 |Feb rain mm = 116.0 |Mar rain mm = 96.5 |Apr rain mm = 90.4 |May rain mm = 87.6 |Jun rain mm = 81.0 |Jul rain mm = 84.6 |Aug rain mm = 90.9 |Sep rain mm = 104.2 |Oct rain mm = 141.8 |Nov rain mm = 152.7 |Dec rain mm = 178.2 |year rain mm= |Jan rain days = 18.1 |Feb rain days = 15.3 |Mar rain days = 15.0 |Apr rain days = 13.8 |May rain days = 13.4 |Jun rain days = 11.8 |Jul rain days = 13.3 |Aug rain days = 14.3 |Sep rain days = 14.0 |Oct rain days = 16.8 |Nov rain days = 19.6 |Dec rain days = 19.1 |year rain days= |source 1 = Meteoclimat{{cite web | url = http://climate-datas-weather.dynalias.org/listenormale-1991-2020-1-p183.php#ss | title = Aldergrove Climate Period: 1991-2020 | publisher = Meteoclimat | access-date = 28 January 2021 | archive-date = 6 February 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210206023248/http://climate-datas-weather.dynalias.org/listenormale-1991-2020-1-p183.php#ss | url-status = dead |source 2 = KNMI (extremes){{cite web |url = https://climexp.knmi.nl/ecatmin.cgi?id=someone@somewhere&WMO=1826&STATION=ALWEN&extraargs= | title = KNMI - Alwen minimum temperature time series | access-date = 25 April 2024 | publisher = KNMI}} |date=January 2021}}

Notable residents

Charlotte Godley (née Griffiths-Wynne), born in Voelas House, was the wife of John Robert Godley, founder of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Edward Wynne-Finch, born in Voelas House, first-class cricketer

References

"Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics: Area: Pentrefoelas (Parish)". Office for National Statistics.
"Area: Pentrefoelas (Parish): Welsh Language Skills, 2011 (KS207WA)". Office for National Statistics.
Owen, Hywel Wyn & Richard Morgan (2007) ''Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales'', Gomer Press, Llandysul, Ceredigion.
Davies, John; Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines & Peredur I. Lynch (2008) ''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales'', University of Wales Press, Cardiff.
"Voelas, Pentrefoelas". British Listed Buildings.
"Plas Iolyn, Pentrefoelas". British Listed Buildings.
(1887). "The Royal Tribes of Wales". Isaac Foulkes.
"RHYS WYN ap CADWALADR". The National Library of Wales.
"Gilar, Pentrefoelas". British Listed Buildings.
"The Royal Tribes of Wales".
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust. [http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/conwy/16935.htm ''Pentrefoelas Church'']. Accessed 13 March 2012.
"Parish Church, Pentrefoelas". British Listed Buildings.
"Melin Voelas, Pentrefoelas". British Listed Buildings.

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