Pentre-bach, Powys
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Pentre-bach
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  Pentre-bach Location within Powys | |
| Principal area | |
| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Brecon |
| Postcode district | LD3 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Pentre-bach (Welsh for "small village") is a hamlet (one of several in Wales with similar names) in Powys, Wales,[1] in the former county and current Shire Committee Area of Breconshire or Brecknockshire. It is located on the Afon Cilieni, a small tributary of the River Usk, between Brecon and Llandovery. The hamlet has a pub called the "Shoemakers Arms"[2] or Tafarn y Crydd, and a former chapel, originally Calvinistic Methodist, named "Beili-du",[3][4] Welsh for "black yard". The nearest church is in Llandeilo'r-Fan, 2 km to the NW, and the nearest shop is in Sennybridge, 4 km to the south.
Construction started of a railway line up the Cilieni valley, but was abandoned in 1867. (See Neath and Brecon Railway and.[5])
