Soar, Powys

Soar is a small village in Powys, Wales, 37 miles North West of Cardiff. It sits at the foot of Mynydd Epynt, and is near Brecon in the historic county of Brecknockshire. The nearby settlement of Ffinnant - divided into the hamlets of Upper Ffinnant (Ffinnant Uchaf Soar) and Lower Ffinnant (Ffinnant Isaf Soar) - may have been the site of the Battle of Ffinnant at which Ithel ap Hywel (king of Gwent) was killed.

Soar
Soar Location within Powys
OS grid reference	SN 9711 3204
• Cardiff	37 mi (60 km)
• London	147.8 mi (237.9 km)
Community	Trallong
Principal area	Powys
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRECON
Postcode district	LD3
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Brecon and Radnorshire
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Brecon and Radnorshire
List of places UK Wales Powys 51.977263°N 3.499372°W / 51.977263; -3.499372

A building in Soar, with the bridge in the foreground

The village contains a baptist chapel built in 1827 and rebuilt in 1874.

Soar used to have two tailors, a midwife, a shoemaker, a blacksmith and a preacher but never had a pub.^[1]