In Byrgwm car park there is The Shed café for those riding the Raven or Derwen Trails. The village is the site of Brechfa Mountain Biking which have a number of free car parks with picnic and BBQ facilities. The managed woodlands of the forest is managed by Natural Resources Wales. The hotel has featured in Welsh rarebits for over fifteen years along with the hotel guide.īrechfa Forest is a mixture of ancient forest and managed woodlands containing mountain bike trails as well as promoted walks and rides, at the top of the Cothi Valley. The restaurant uses fresh locally sourced ingredients and can be booked by guests and non guests alike.

The hotel has now six rooms, all en suit and a mature garden, fire places and the original stonework throughout. The Hotel ( ) Ty Mawr dates from 1658 and was converted into a hotel by Jill and Cliff Ross in 1979 having purchased the property at auction in 1976 for £10,000. The pub was closed between 20, and was re-opened in April 2014. The Forest Arms, the public house located in the centre of Brechfa, featuring open fires, food and drink and car parking to the front and rear. The village was chosen as a special stage in the British Rally from 2006 to 2008. The Bryn Stores Community Store is a co-operative has been set up to run the village shop, which featured in an article in The Daily Telegraph Magazine in 2007. The stone from the former church building was used to build the current church hall which is situated directly opposite St. Teilo's Church is based in the middle of the Brechfa and replaced the former church building in 1893. The village has a bridge over the river that links both sides of the village. The men lived in a work camp in Brechfa, which was one of a number of Instructional Centres run by the Ministry of Labour. During the 1930s Great Depression, unemployed men were sent to work on the Forestry Commission land, breaking ground, building tracks, and undertaking other heavy labour. In the 1840s, Brechfa featured in the Rebecca Riots when rioters destroyed tollgates on the local turnpike road.

Vicar of st teilo brechfa