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Wales comprises the counties of Ceredigion and Powys (R). It is a large
area extending from Aberystwyth, on the Cardigan Bay coast, to the
English border about 80 km (50 miles) away, and from the Berwyn Hills
in the north to the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains in the south, a
distance of more than 100 km (c. 70 miles). We have a long and
spectacular coastline, extending from the Dyfi Estuary in the north to
Cardigan in the south, in which the folded Lower Palaeozoic rocks are
superbly exposed in sea-cliffs (below). Inland we have the vast rolling
moorlands of the Cambrian Mountains, largely empty except for sheep,
passing southwards into the Brecon Beacons that overlook the northern
edge of the South Wales Coalfield.  |
