Llanbedr, Gwynedd - Ranch Adventure Centre, Benham Retreat - postcard c.1970s

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  The Ranch Adventure Centre and the Benham Retreat, Llanbedr
• Publisher: Photo Precision (R6270)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  1981 Silver Jubilee stamp 14p
• Postmark(s): Blaenau Ffestiniog 1981
• Sent to:  Wickford, Essex
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Llanbedr is a village and community in the Ardudwy area, formerly Meirionnydd, of Gwynedd, Wales.

The village originally grew around the slate quarrying industry. Attractions in Llanbedr include Neolithic standing stones; the Stones of Llanbedr and Bronze Age hut circles. The Morfa Dyffryn sand dunes and Mochras (Shell Island) lie nearby. It also boasts two public houses; Ty Mawr Hotel and The Victoria Inn.

The church of St Peter, after whom the village is named (Pedr being the Welsh for Peter), is a class II* listed building.^[2]

A mile from the village is the hamlet of Pentre Gwynfryn whose chapel, Capel Salem, was the subject of a painting by the artist Sydney Curnow Vosper. The painting, entitled Salem, showed a member of the congregation, Siân Owen, in traditional Welsh costume and became famous throughout Britain in the mid 20th century.^[3]

Llanbedr has a recently reopened airport which, until 2004, was operated by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) and QinetiQ as a launch site for remotely piloted drone 'aircraft' for use as aerial targets by the RAF and other UK forces.^[4] Opposite the airfield is one of two NACATC units (National Air Cadets Adventure Training Centres) in the UK (the other being in the village of Windermere in the English Lake District). The airfield was included in the Snowdonia Enterprise Zone by the Welsh Government in January 2013.

To the north of the village is the smaller village of Pensarn, situated at the estuary of the river Artro. This is the location of Llanbedr & Pensarn Yacht Club and the Christian Mountain Centre, a residential adventure activity centre.