Cribyn
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Cribyn is a small village in Ceredigion in mid Wales. It is about 7 miles north of Lampeter and has the villages of Mydroilyn and Dihewyd to the North. Once a thriving community with two pubs, a garage and a post office, it is now largely reduced to a dormitory village for Lampeter.
The Primary School in the village, founded by local hero Gwilym Butler-Wilkins , having maintained its status as primarily Welsh speaking since its establishment in 1876,
It has one of the few Unitarian Chapels in Ceredigion, which was established in 1790 by Dafydd Davis Castellhywel and Evan Davies, Cwmbedw. There was an old cottage next to the chapel which was older than the chapel, and a school was held here for many years until the primary school was founded in 1876.
Four parishes meet in Cribyn, and most parishioners went to the Church in Llanfihangel Ystrad until the present church was established at the end of the 19th century.
Capel Sant Silin on the road from Cribyn to Gorsgoch is the oldest part of the village. St Silin built a small church here in the sixth or seventh century. A horse fair was held here until the 1930's and the village use to come to a standstill when the fair was on. A small stone built building on the corner by Penlancapel was used as a kitchen during the fair, and food was sold from here. Penlancapel is the oldest dwelling in the village apart from the old corn mill. Felin Hafodwen was part of the estate of the abbey at Ystrad Fflur. It was still milling corn in the twentieth century.
On the road to Mydroilyn, there was a woollen mill and the cottage near the Course fishing ponds was the fuller's cottage - Pandy.
Opposite the school, on the road to Temple Bar, is Caehir. The farmhouse and outbuildings were one long row, with a passage separating the living quarters from the livestock. These days it is the office/reception of the Caehir Nursery/Gardens.
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