Old Radnor

Coordinates: 52°13′30″N 3°06′00″W / 52.225°N 3.100°W / 52.225; -3.100

Old Radnor (Welsh: Pencraig) is a town and community in Powys (historically in Radnorshire), Wales. The community includes the villages of Yardro, Dolyhir, Burlingjobb, Walton and Evenjobb, as well as Old Radnor itself. In the 2001 census and the 2011 Census the community had a population of 741 (390 male and 351 female) in 323 households.

Old Radnor lies on a lane off the A44, west of the border with the English county of Herefordshire. The town of New Radnor, which replaced Old Radnor as county town of Radnorshire, is to the west of Old Radnor. Riddings Brook, a tributary of the River Lugg, starts near Old Radnor. Old Radnor has one pub, the Harp Inn, a 15th-century farm house.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. At the 2011 Census this ward had a population of 1,562.

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