Hi Pamela
If you go to Old Maps:
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html and put
'Bettws' into the search box, this will take you to a list, where you should
select 'Bettws Cedewain, Montogomeryshire' (sic - sp: Montgomeryshire and
'Cedewain' is spelt 'Caedewen' on the actual map). If you then select the
1886 1:2,500 Montgomeryshire Ordnance Survey map (centre on 'Bettws Bridge'
for the clearest coverage), you should be able to find the Post Office and
Smithy marked in close proximity to each other. Then I would suggest calling
up a modern map via Google maps to make a current comparison.
Later maps show the Post Office further away - at or by the Talbot P.H.. The
Smithy also changes position on subsequent maps. However, 1886 is not too
far away from when the will was made and because of the close proximity of
the two properties I should think that these are the actual ones referred to
in the will.
If you centre the map to the northwest of the village, halfway towards
Tregynon, then you should be able to pick up 'Ffridd-wen'. Could this be the
farm 'Freed'?
Having said all this, there may well be other people on the Powys list who
actually know the village through their own research and can tell you a
little more. The odds are there won't be anyone around locally who actually
knows what the place looked like during the mid-19th century, because of the
way people move around these days - losing the connection with past
generations.
Best regards
Clive Gardener
www.secret-bottletop.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Griffiths" <pamelag(a)orcon.net.nz>
To: <powys(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:40 PM
Subject: [POWYS] MGY Red Lion Inn at Bettws Cedewain
Hi
I'd like help in locating the Red Lion inn in Bettws village. I know
it's not still operating but is the building still standing? I read an
undated article that said it became the post office and general store -
but I don't know if that is current now, and I also don't know where the
PO is. I'd like to be able to locate it and see it on google maps.
In the will of Evan JONES, blacksmith and innkeeper, (written 1864,
d.1866) it says "...all that my Public House called the Red Lion with
the Smithy, Stabling, and appurtenances thereto belonging situate in the
Village of Bettws..." Was the smithy attached/next to the inn? I see
there is a building called "Old Smithy" in Bettws village, would this
have been his smithy?
regards, Pamela
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