Myra Duffy <myra.duffy@myraduffy.me.uk> wrote: I have found a potential POWELL ancestor on Rootsweb (Ummmm!) He was born ABT 1779 in Llanafanfawr, Breconshire Wales. Can anyone tell me where this place is? I have tried the old maps but without success. ==================== Dear Myra, Llanafanfawr (village) is at grid reference SN960550 on the detailed UK Ordnance Survey 'Landranger' series 1:50,000-scale maps. You can see the relevant 3-kilometre square section of this map at the Streetmaps website www.streetmap.co.uk/ In the search section near the top of the Streetmaps homepage, select the 'Landranger' option, enter SN960550 into the search field and click the Search button. When the initial map appears, change to the more useful Landranger map format by clicking the area midway between the [+] and [-] zoom buttons at bottom right of the map. You'll see Llanafan-fawr identified by name and by a small orange arrow near the centre of the map. You can call up a highly detailed (1:10,560-scale) late 19th century map of the same area by going to the Old Maps website at: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/IndexMapPage2.aspx Using the search facility (near top the page) enter the numbers 296795 and 255740 into the two co-ordinates fields and click the GO button alongside. When the map appears, click on the "Enlarge Map" icon, the bottom of the four icons on the tab to the right of the map. A highly detailed large map of the area will open in a new window, showing Llanafan-fawr and the surrounding area. There are details of Llanafanfawr parish on the GENUKI website at www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/LlanafanFawr/ Kind regards, John ---------------------------- John Ball, Cwmgwili, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK E-mail: john@jlb2005.plus.com John's Homepage: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/ Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/wales/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Joint Administrator for BRE, MGY, POWYS, & RAD mailing lists