Knucklas

Knucklas
Welsh: Cnwclas
Knucklas Viaduct, on the Heart of Wales Line, and the village of Knucklas beneath
Knucklas Knucklas shown within Powys
Population	220
OS grid reference	SO251742
Principal area	Powys
Ceremonial county	Powys
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Knighton
Postcode district	LD7
Dialling code	01547
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
EU Parliament	Wales
UK Parliament	Brecon & Radnorshire
List of places UK Wales Powys

Coordinates: 52°21′40″N 3°06′00″W / 52.361°N 3.1°W / 52.361; -3.1

Knucklas (Welsh: Cnwclas, "green hillock") is a village in Powys, Wales. It lies off the B4355 road and is served by Knucklas railway station on the Heart of Wales Line. It is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from Knighton and lies in the upper valley of the River Teme.

Notable landmarks

The Castle Mound

A protected ancient monument in the care of Knucklas Castle Community Land Project KCCLP^[1] and listed by Cadw,^[2] it is the site of a castle believed to have been built by the Mortimers in c.1220-25.^[3] It consisted of a keep – a square stone fortification with four round towers on top of a steep hill. There is some evidence that there may have been further outer walls. It was captured by a Welsh army in 1262 which destroyed the defences.^[4]^[5] Below the castle lies the battlefield of the Battle of Beguildy fought between the Welsh and the Mortimer family of Norman Marcher Lords in 1146. The castle was attacked and destroyed by the forces of Owain Glyndŵr in 1402 during his rebellion. Whilst there is a romantic story associating the castle location with the marriage of Guinevere and King Arthur,^[5] this probably developed from an earlier story which suggested that a marriage took place between Gwenhwyfar, the daughter of Ogrfan Gawr (also called 'Gogrfan Gawr "the Giant" of Castell y Cnwclas' (Knucklas Castle)) and Arthur the warrior – there being no reference to Arthur as a king in the early Welsh texts.

The Viaduct

A spectacular 13-arch span completed by the Central Wales Railway in 1865 and recorded in an engraving from the Illustrated London News.^[6]

Historic Heyope

Three Bronze Age torcs were found here and declared treasure in 1991. They are now housed in the National Museum, Cardiff.

The parish church of St David was built in 1882, on the site of a medieval church; the font is 15th century.^[7]

The longest-burning tyre fire in British history occurred in Heyope, lasting 13 years from 1989 to 2001.^[7]

References

↑ KCCLP
↑ Cadw website
↑ CPAT Report No 1088 Historic settlements in Radnorshire
↑ "eCastles Website". Retrieved 3 Dec 2007.
1 2 "Castle Wales Website". Retrieved 3 Dec 2007.
↑ "Gathering the Jewels". Retrieved 3 Dec 2007.
1 2 Evans, A T D (2008) Border Wanderings page 116

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