Cwmgiedd is a small village beside the River Giedd within the community of Ystradgynlais, Powys, Wales. It lies 22.5 km (15 miles) north-east of Swansea and 253 km (157 miles) west of London. The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Yorath Chapel, first built in 1806, is in Cwmgiedd.
The Silent Village, a 1943 British propaganda film about the destruction by the Nazi occupiers of the Czech village Lidice, was filmed here, and in 2015, a graft of a Lidice pear tree was planted in the village, near the junction with the A4067, as part of the "Messenger of Hope" project.
See also John Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd Swansea Valley
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