This view is from the hillside above Cilmeddu, a mile west of Ysbyty Ystwyth, and features in Hillscape Walking Holidays Tynbedw Forest Walk. "Ysbyty" means "hospital" today, but it also means "hospice", or place of hospitality, and the name dates back to the days when the village was a stopping place on an important route used by the monks of Strata Florida Abbey. Pontrhydygroes grew into an important village much later, when it became the centre of the nineteenth-century Lisburne lead mines. The name means "bridge by the ford of the cross", indicating that the crossing point over the Ystwyth at the bottom of the village was also on the monks' route.
The panorama shows the higher village of Ysbyty Ystwyth on the right, with the summit of Trawsallt on the skyline above it. Round to the right the horizon is formed by other parts of the Cambrian Mountains plateau receding into the far distance. Pontrhydygroes is left of Ysbyty Ystwyth, down in the Ystwyth valley, and beyond it you can see the upper valley in which lie Hafod and Cwmystwyth. Cilmeddu farm ruins are at the left-hand end of the clump of broadleaved trees below the village. To the left of the panorama, we are looking across the valley to Maenarthur woods, and at the far left are the lead-mining spoil tips of Grogwynion mine.
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