Llanerchydol

About Llanerchydol

Llanerchydol is a settlement on the A458 about 2 km west of the centre of Welshpool in the county of Powys in Wales. Llanerchydol HallLlanerchydol Hall, a 14240sqft Grade II* Listed Building, is located in parkland between the A458 to Llanfair Caereinion and A490 to Llanfyllin. The Hall is a fine and largely intact early 19th-century picturesque Gothic Revival style house, with well preserved park and gardens. The site has a long history of occupation, including a Tudor house which burnt down in about 1776, after which David Pugh, a local man who made a fortune selling tea in London, bought the site and built a new house which became known as Llanerchydol Hall. HistoryLlanerchydol is named after and is near the northern border of Llannerch Hudol, which was a medieval commote in the cantref of Ystlyg in the Kingdom of Powys. It was in the south-east of the kingdom, close to the border with England. It was a small commote bordering Y Gorddwr on the east beyond the River Severn, Ystrad Marchell in the north, Caereinion on the west and Cedewain south of the River Rhiw at Berriew.

Llanerchydol Description

Llanerchydol is a settlement on the A458 about 2 km west of the centre of Welshpool in the county of Powys in Wales. Llanerchydol HallLlanerchydol Hall, a 14240sqft Grade II* Listed Building, is located in parkland between the A458 to Llanfair Caereinion and A490 to Llanfyllin. The Hall is a fine and largely intact early 19th-century picturesque Gothic Revival style house, with well preserved park and gardens. The site has a long history of occupation, including a Tudor house which burnt down in about 1776, after which David Pugh, a local man who made a fortune selling tea in London, bought the site and built a new house which became known as Llanerchydol Hall. HistoryLlanerchydol is named after and is near the northern border of Llannerch Hudol, which was a medieval commote in the cantref of Ystlyg in the Kingdom of Powys. It was in the south-east of the kingdom, close to the border with England. It was a small commote bordering Y Gorddwr on the east beyond the River Severn, Ystrad Marchell in the north, Caereinion on the west and Cedewain south of the River Rhiw at Berriew.