City
City is located in Powys
City
City
Location within Powys
OS grid referenceSO210899
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWTOWN
Postcode districtSY16
Dialling code01686
PoliceDyfed-Powys
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament

City is a hamlet in Powys, Wales.

Geography

City is 0.75 miles (1.21 km) from the small village of Sarn (which is situated on the A489 road) and is on the slopes up to the Clun Forest and the English border, which is only 1.2 miles (1.9 km) to the southeast. The hamlet is situated in a small valley, at an elevation of between 210 metres (690 ft) to 230 metres (750 ft) above sea level.[1]

City is just off the minor road that leads from Sarn up to the Kerry Ridgeway and further to Bishop's Castle, a market town 7.5 miles (12.1 km) distant, in Shropshire. The two nearer towns however are historic Montgomery — 5.2 miles (8.4 km) away — and (the larger) Newtown, which is 7.1 miles (11.4 km) to the west.[1]

At present, 11 dwellings comprise the core of the hamlet (though one is dilapidated) as well as three outlying isolated houses.[1] There are a number of small, disused quarries in the area. Today the landscape is a mixture of woodland and pasture. The local economy is largely based on agriculture and forestry.

There is a Royal Mail post box with a daily collection Monday-Saturday,[2] and the hamlet's postcode is SY16 4HH.

Bachaethlon

The farming settlement of Bachaethlon, looking towards the northwest.

A separate and historic settlement called Bachaethlon lies just to the north of City, on the other side of the Sarn-Bishop's Castle road.[3] Bachaethlon lies on more level ground, at an elevation of 200 metres (660 ft). It consists of 6 dwellings and many agricultural buildings.[1] Anglicised spellings include "Bahaithlon" and "Bahaillon".

Governance

The area forms part of the Kerry community (in the ward of Sarn)[4] and for Powys County Council the electoral division/ward of Kerry.[5] It falls in the historic county of Montgomeryshire.

Origin of the name

The hamlet has never held the status of a city and "City" is not a recognisable Welsh word, so its origin is unclear. It is possible that the name came from an Anglicisation of Saith Tŷ, which is Welsh for "Seven Houses".

There is another place in Wales called City, in the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as City Dulas in Anglesey.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Ordnance Survey mapping
  2. ↑ Dracos.co.uk Postboxes in SY16
  3. ↑ Geograph.org.uk SO2190 : The settlement at Bachaethlon
  4. ↑ Powys County Council Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine Kerry boundary review
  5. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Election Maps". Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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