page_title: Llanfyllin
section_title: Bodfach Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Llanfyllin / Buildings / Bodfach Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: Llanfyllin Workhouse Central "Hub" building Llanfyllin Union Workhouse - Wyrcws Undeb Llanfyllin The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act created unions of parishes which collected rates to pay for the care of the poor and the upkeep of the workhouse built to house them. Llanfyllin is one of the best surviving examples of these buildings. The Union formed in 1837 covered a large area of north Montgomeryshire and parts of Denbighshire and served all of this area until poor law unions were abolished in 1930. The building was designed by Thomas Penson, County surveyor. It is built from local stone, lined internally with brick and roofed with slate from Llangynog. The Workhouse is now home to a unique project: a community enterprise for arts, education, environment and heritage. Work continues to restore the building. The workhouse has its own website Link￼ which includes an interesting history section.
context_page_description: Llanfyllin is a market town, community and electoral ward in a sparsely populated area in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. Llanfyllin's population in 2011 was 1,532, of whom 34.1% could speak Welsh. Llanfyllin means church or parish of St Myllin.
context_section_description: Bodfach Hall is a Grade II listed building about 1 km north-west of Llanfyllin in the hamlet of Bodfach. It is likely that a house was built on the site after the destruction in 1257 of Tomen yr Allt, a motte-and-bailey castle which stood on one of the hills above it. The property is first recorded in 1160 in the will of Madog ap Maredudd, Prince of Powys. Sion Kyffin, a descendant of Madog, extended a house on the site in 1661, as recorded in an inscription above an old door on the west of the house.  The house was considerably modified and extended over the years and was rebuilt c. 1870. In 1945 the estate was broken up; most of the land was bought by its tenant farmers, and the hall and 33 acres were sold to one buyer to become an hotel.
  Llanfyllin Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1909 in Bodfach Park; the president was Sir John Lomax, the owner of Bodfach Hall and former High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire. It was a 9-hole course with a membership of 40 in 1914. It disappeared after World War I.
caption: Llanfyllin Union Workhouse