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Pentrefoelas is a village and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The village lies on the A5 road between Betws-y-coed to the west and Cerrigydrudion to the east. The Afon Merddwr river, a tributary of the River Conwy, flows through it. The community had a population of 356 at the time of the 2011 census,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127505&c=Pentrefoelas&d=16&e=62&g=6489516&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1430159091248&enc=1 )〕 70% were able to speak Welsh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=11127505&c=Pentrefoelas&d=16&e=62&g=6489516&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1432735725691&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2533 )〕 It has an area of 53.86 km2 and covers a large region around the village including part of Mynydd Hiraethog, Llyn Alwen and part of Alwen Reservoir.〔 The name of the village comes from ''pentre'' (Welsh for "village") and a nearby hill, ''Foel Las'' ("green bare-topped hill").〔Owen, Hywel Wyn & Richard Morgan (2007) ''Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales'', Gomer Press, Llandysul, Ceredigion.〕 The hill is the site of a motte built around 1164 in the time of Owain Gwynedd. Old Voelas House (or Plas Foel Las), mansion of the Wynne family, was built at the foot of the hill in 1545. It was demolished in 1819 and a new site was established two kilometres to the west. The current Voelas Hall was built in 1961 and was designed by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis.〔Davies, John; Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines & Peredur I. Lynch (2008) ''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales'', University of Wales Press, Cardiff.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-20585-voelas-pentrefoelas#.VTKlzJP5d-4 )〕 Other buildings around the village include: *''Plas Iolyn'', home to Rhys Fawr ap Maredudd, his son Robert ap Rhys (the chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey), his grandson the 16th-century MP Elis Prys (known as Dr Coch and notorious for his oppression of the district) and his great-grandson, the poet Tomos Prys. It is now a farmhouse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-68-plas-iolyn-pentrefoelas#.VTKmGZP5d-4 )〕 *''Gilar'', built in the 16th century for the poet Rhys Wyn ap Cadwaladr (fl. c. 1600), perhaps by his father Cadwaladr ap Maurice after receiving a substantial grant of land from Henry VIII in 1545-6, which included the land later occupied by Plas Iolyn and Old Voelas House.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-264-gilar-pentrefoelas#.VTKl55P5d-4 )〕〔 *The village had a chapelry of Ysbyty Ifan built in 1766 and known as ''Voelas Chapel''. The ''Parish Church'' was built on the same site in 1857-9.〔Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust. (''Pentrefoelas Church'' ). Accessed 13 March 2012.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-20578-parish-church-pentrefoelas#.VTKlu5P5d-4 )〕 *The Pentrefoelas watermill (''Melin Voelas'') for grinding flour dates from 1815 and was restored by Clwyd County Council as part of a heritage scheme. The ironwork for the external overshot waterwheel was originally cast by the Llanrwst Foundry probably sometime in the 19th century〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-20596-melin-voelas-pentrefoelas#.VTKvNpP5d-4 )〕 File:Pentrefoelas.jpg|View towards the village File:Plas Iolyn 768546.jpg|Plas Iolyn File:Gilar - geograph.org.uk - 768450.jpg|Gilar File:The church, Pentrefoelas NLW3361362.jpg|Parish Church c. 1875 File:Graveyard, Pentrefoelas - geograph.org.uk - 612273.jpg|Graveyard, Pentrefoelas File:Pentrefoelas, watermill - geograph.org.uk - 55300.jpg|Pentrefoelas watermill ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pentrefoelas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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