Llanbedr Painscastle is a large upland parish of small farms and hill pastures. It has always been a hard place to make a living and in Victorian times even more so. Unlike Llowes and Clyro it had none of the richer Wye valley farmlands. The published census report of 1851 said that the decrease in population was due to "the removal of labourers and their families to the mining districts of Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire".

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