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Blaen-geuffordd

hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ15987468 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blaen-geuffordd is a hamlet in the community of Melindwr, Ceredigion, Wales, 4 miles (6 km) to the east of Aberystwyth. It is 72.7 miles (117.1 km) from Cardiff and 175.8 miles (282.9 km) from London. Blaengeuffordd is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and is part of the Ceredigion Preseli constituency in the House of Commons.

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The public source identifies “Blaen-geuffordd” as hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Blaen-geuffordd, hamlet and Ceredigion.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Blaen-geuffordd, hamlet and Ceredigion providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Blaen-geuffordd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.