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Machynlleth Town Football Club, founded in 1885, plays in the Spar Mid-Wales district league and the reserve team is in the Cambrian Tyres Division 2 Amateur football league. The Machynlleth Rugby Club plays in the North Wales Division 2. portrait of Owain Glyndŵr The 6th Marquess of Londonderry, as viceroy of Ireland Edward M. Lewis, 1922
At the time of Celtica's closure, Machynlleth Town Council began discussions with Powys County Council with a view of the Town Council taking ownership of the Plas. On 1 April 2008, in a move thought to be unprecedented for a community council of its size, Macynlleth Town Council took ownership of the Plas, its parkland, and its facilities. [6]
[1] The tramway unofficially allowed passengers to ride on its trains from at least 1860 and Machynlleth Town was the southernmost passenger station on the line. [2] The passenger service was formalised in 1872 with the introduction of timetabled horse-hauled trains, running from Machynlleth Town to Corris. [3]
Between 1797 and 1812 a road was built from Machynlleth to Garreg near Glandyfi, passing through Derwenlas.This new transportation route enabled Derwenlas to develop as a port as it was the highest point on the Dyfi that was navigable by coastal ships - boats of up to 70 tons could reach there at high tide.
Machynlleth was a station on the Corris Railway in Merioneth (now Gwynedd), Wales. It was opened in 1863 as a pair of wharves for the transshipment of slate onto the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. In 1878, it was opened to passenger traffic, replacing the earlier Machynlleth Town, and was adjacent to the standard gauge station of the same ...
In 2012, Mark Bridger, a resident of Ceinws, abducted and murdered five-year-old April Jones from the nearby town of Machynlleth. [3] Bridger was sentenced to a whole life sentence . [ 4 ] His house was subsequently torn down and a memorial garden to April Jones was erected on its site.
This trade died out when the Corris Railway to Machynlleth and the Talyllyn Railway to Tywyn were built. The Cwm Ebol quarry operated a mile north west of the village between 1868 and around 1906. A 3 ft ( 914 mm ) gauge tramway [ 2 ] (later converted to 2 ft ( 610 mm ) gauge) operated between the quarry and the village.
Machynlleth railway station is on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the town of Machynlleth.It was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR) and subsequently passed into the ownership of the Cambrian Railways, the Great Western Railway, Western Region of British Railways and London Midland Region of British Railways.