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architect. Plain plastered interior with scissor-rafter roof, and wagon roof in the chancel. The font is late medieval, octagonal and quite large. There is a good early 17th century pulpit with intricately carved panels. St. Etheldreda's church has an almost rectangular sloping churchyard, with views
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On Castle Hill. Motte and bailey on a plateau on a small hill. Remains of a 13th-century tower (circa 9 metres square). 30 feet square. Remains of a triangular bailey 70m x 45m. The base of a tower is possibly buried in northern corner of the bailey and in the east corner, traces of a hall remain.
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and the Hyssington/Corndon Hill implements are known as Group XII. As the production of these implements in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age did not employed the same flaking techniques as stone axes, which leave recognisable flaking debris, the site or sites of the Corndon Group XII
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produce finely laminated flagstones which were widely used on building on the Shropshire-Montgomeryshire border. Only a few buildings still have the flagstones as roofing slates, including the Old Post Office at Churchstoke and the porch to Hurdley Farmhouse.
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The Corndon flagstone quarries are on the south western slopes of Corndon Hill and date from Medieval times. From the air the quarries are still a prominent feature in the landscape. In this area the altered
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implements production will be very much harder to identitify. However the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust did excavate several small quarry depressions in 2008, but only found evidence of fairly recent
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So-named after the White Grit lead mines. This is to the North- East of the village and was built to serve the mining community which was just over the border in
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According to a local legend, the church has a miniature bull buried beneath the church step. It is said that the bull terrorised the neighbourhood until it was
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in Shopshire while Hyssington remained in Montgomeryshire. After the creation of the county of Montgomeryshire in 1541, Hyssington was in Halcetor hundred.
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house with a lobby entry and stellar chimney stack. Three bays, the cross wing with good exposed close-studding. C18 rubble extension to the right.
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and stretching across to East Anglia. By 1988, 93 examples of these implements had been identified and all of these implements have shaftholes for
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Cefn, One mile north of the village. Small square-framed house of c.1700. Three-bay front with central entrance, and end chimneys
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which had been quarried from Corndon Hill. Production sites of stone axes and shafthole implements have been grouped by
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settlement and there is a possibility that an earlier Saxon hall or settlement lies under the adjacent Norman motte.
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east end, with Gothic windows and a corrugated iron bellcote. The matchboarded interior with its fittings survives.
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Great Brithdir, ¾ mile north west. Dated 1695. The stone-built house sits on a masonry platform. Lobby-entry L-plan
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It has been suggested that this site may be the castle of Snead occupied by Simon de Parcio in 1231, and given by
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Brynawel is a nicely preserved three-bay house of the later C18; three colour-washed bays with iron casements.
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and three of the twelve members of Churchstoke Community Council are elected from the Hyssington ward.
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of Hyssington and Mucklewick, which formed the ecclesiastical parish of Hyssington, straddled the
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Built 1889. In the village South of the church. Small, stone-built with some brick detail.
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The building is a long single-chambered church with a west bell hanging, rebuilt in 1875 by
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Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire. Vol. 37, pp31–43.
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Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire. Vol 35 177–237.
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identified the source of the rock used for shafthole battle-axes and axe-hammers as
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CWGC Cemetery report, details from casualty record. Date accessed 1 September 2016.
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lies just the north of a small village and is sited just to the west of a medieval
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Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouth I - County of Montgomery
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The main distribution of Group XII implements is in mid-Wales, the Midlands, the
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Cairn at summit of Corndon Hill looking over Montgomeryshire towards the Berwyns
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Monumental inscriptions in the parish churchyard of Hyssington, Montgomeryshire
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parish must be significant. The dedication should indicated an early Saxon or
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The site was visible in 1811, but above ground remains have now disappeared.
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Signs of Devotion: the cult of St Aethelthryth in medieval England, 695-1615
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The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, (1911),
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St-Aethelthryth from Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, 10 C British Library
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A Survey of the Lordship of Halcetor Co Montgomery dated 30th June 1609
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Montgomeryshire Churches Survey; Church of St Etheldreda, Hyssington
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Although physically in Wales, the church at Hyssington is within the
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The petrology of prehistoric stone implements from the British Isles
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should remain part of the Church of England, or form part of the
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and there are no examples of picrite being used to produce axes.
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Clough T H and Cummins W A, (1988), Stone Axe Studies Vol. 2,
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Hyssington Church, Montgomeryshire. 18th century Gravestones
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voted by 108 to 33 to remain part of the Church of England.
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Hyssington Church, Montgomeryshire. 18th century gravestone
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in 1915 to decide whether the parish of Hyssington with
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over the Shropshire hills. This churchyard contains the
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border. In 1884 Mucklewick became part of the parish of
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A new centre of stone axe dispersal on the Welsh Border
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art, could equally well have been early plough marks
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Hyssington is located in Powys
Powys
OS grid reference
SO 313945
Community
Principal area
Powys
Preserved county
Powys
Country
Wales
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SY15
Police
Dyfed-Powys
Fire
Mid and West Wales
Ambulance
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Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
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