Sarn, Powys

Sarn
Holy Trinity Church, Sarn, Montgomeryshire
Sarn Location within Powys
OS grid reference	SO204908
Principal area	Powys
Preserved county	Powys
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWTOWN
Postcode district	SY16
Dialling code	01686
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Montgomeryshire
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Montgomeryshire
List of places UK Wales Powys 52°30′36″N 3°10′26″W / 52.51°N 3.174°W / 52.51; -3.174

Sarn is a small village in Powys, Wales.

The village lies on the A489 road 6.4 miles (10.3 km) east of Newtown. There is a bus service through the village, with buses to Newtown, Churchstoke and Montgomery.^[1]

Less than a mile to the west is the smaller settlement of Llancowrid, also on the A489, at grid reference SO196908. The hamlets of City and Bachaethlon are 0.75 miles (1.21 km) from Sarn, on the minor road up to the Kerry Ridgeway.

The historic parish church is Holy Trinity, part of the Ridgeway Benefice, in the Clun Forest deanery of the Church of England's Diocese of Hereford.^[2] The village also possesses a Baptist church.^[3]

There is a village hall, a primary school, and a public house — the Sarn Inn.^[4] A small group of farmers called the Sarnies beat the eggheads in 2005. A small recreation ground includes a tennis court and a bowling green.

Historic buildings in the parish include Great Cefnyberen, a Grade II timber-framed house, which dates from the mid-16th century.

It forms part of the Kerry community (in the ward of Sarn)^[5] and for Powys County Council the electoral division/ward of Kerry.^[6] It falls in the historic county of Montgomeryshire.

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