Hay-on-Wye#Book town

The town lies on the south-east bank of the River Wye and is within the north-easternmost tip of the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains. The town is just on the Welsh side of the border with Herefordshire, England, here defined by the Dulas Brook. Where the brook joins the River Wye just north of the town, the border continues northwards along the river. The Wye was the boundary between the former counties and districts of Radnorshire and Brecknockshire, with Hay lying in the latter.{{cite web|url=https://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mwtransp.htm|title=Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Middle Wye Valley: Transport and Communication Landscapes|publisher=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust|access-date=13 June 2022}}

The adjacent parish of Cusop lies on the English side of the Dulas Brook, with parts of the urban area of Hay now crossing the border into the parish of Cusop. The nearest city is Hereford, county town of Herefordshire, some {{convert|22|mi|km}} to the east.{{cite web|url=https://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/storage/pdf/transport.pdf |title=Getting to Hay|publisher=Hay-on-Wye Tourist Information Bureau| access-date=13 June 2022}} Hereford serves as the post town for Hay, so that its official postal address is "Hay-on-Wye, Hereford", despite Hay being in Wales and Hereford in England.{{cite book |title=Sheppard's Book Dealers in the British Isles |date=1990 |publisher=Richard Joseph |page=8 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sheppard_s_Book_Dealers_in_the_British_I/_ddMAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Hay-on-Wye%2C%20Hereford%22&dq=%22Hay-on-Wye%2C%20Hereford%22%20%22postal%20address%22&printsec=frontcover |access-date=17 November 2024}}

Hay-on-Wye is in the area known as "Kilvert country" which includes Clyro, Capel-y-ffin, Llowes, Glasbury, Llanigon, Painscastle, Clifford and Whitney-on-Wye.{{Cite web |title=Exploring Mid Wales - Kilvert's Diaries |url=https://www.exploringmidwales.co.uk/specialist-tours/literary-tours/kilvert-s-diaries/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=www.exploringmidwales.co.uk |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Balch |first=Oliver |date=2016-04-09 |title=Walking the Welsh Marches with a Victorian clergyman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/apr/09/walking-welsh-marches-with-victorian-clergyman-kilverts-diary |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=Mar 2019 |title="Kilvert Society Newsletter No. 48 - Clyro and Llanigon: the Kilvert Society Autumn weekend" |url=https://www.thekilvertsociety.org.uk/assets/downloads/archive/kilvert-society-journal-48.pdf}}{{Cite web |title=Powys & the Brecon Beacons National Park - Heritage & Cultural Audit |url=https://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/oldsite/the-authority/working-in-partnership/tourism-new/sustainability-1/Powys%20Heritage%20and%20Cultural%20Audit%20Final.pdf}}

The settlement's name is first referred to between 1135 and 1147 as {{lang|enm|Haya}}; in 1299 the name of {{lang|enm|La Haye}} is used. By the 16th century it was simply called Hay, and the use of the river as a suffix is a later addition. In 1215, a Welsh name, {{lang|cy|Gelli}} was recorded, and {{lang|cy|Gelli gandrell}} in 1614; the two names may have been used concurrently in 1625. The English language name, Hay, is derived from Old English {{lang|ang|hæg}}, possibly meaning a "fenced area" and a noun used in late Saxon and Norman times for an enclosure in a forest. The Welsh word {{lang|cy|celli}} (lenited to {{lang|cy|Gelli}}) has a range of meanings, including wooded areas of various extents.{{cite web |title=Hay-on-Wye |publisher=Clwyd–Powys Archaeological Trust |work=Historic Settlement Survey – Brecon Beacons National Park |url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/ycom/bbnp/hayonwye.pdf|access-date=6 April 2014}}

The legal name of the community is Hay rather than Hay-on-Wye.{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=17 November 2024}} In 1947 the General Post Office changed the name of the postal locality from Hay to Hay-on-Wye.{{cite book |title=Hay-on-Wye Conservation Area Appraisal |date=September 2016 |publisher=Breacon Beacons National Park Authority |location=Brecon |page=17 |url=https://bannau.wales/wp-content/uploads/English-version-Hay-on-Wye-Conservation-Area-Appraisal-Review-September-2016-1.pdf |access-date=17 November 2024}} The change of postal address did not change the name of the urban district which then covered the town, which retained the name Hay and was subsequently converted into a community called Hay in 1974.{{cite web |title=Brecknockshire: Diagram showing administrative boundaries, 1971 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241241407 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=17 November 2024}}

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The village of Llanigon is about {{convert|2|miles|km|0}} south-west of the town of Hay-on-Wye. Before the Norman Conquest, Hay-on-Wye was part of the parish of Llanigon. The church of St. Eigon (possibly identified with Saint Eigen) in Llanigon was the principal church for the area. This was because the settlement in Llanigon predated the settlement in Hay-on-Wye.{{Cite web |title=CPAT Settlement Survey – Brecon Beacons National Park -Llanigon |url=https://cpat.org.uk/ycom/bbnp/llanigon.pdf |website=Historic Settlement Survey – Brecon Beacons National Park |publisher=Clwyd–Powys Archaeological Trust}}

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Brycheiniog (an independent kingdom in Wales) was conquered between 1088 and 1095 following the second Norman invasion of Wales. The Norman invaders were led by Bernard de Neufmarché, a marcher Lord. He divided Brycheiniog into smaller lordships, which were gifted to the knights who contributed to the conquest.{{Cite web |title=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - The Defensive and Military Landscape |url=https://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mwdefend.htm |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=cpat.org.uk}} The Llanthomas lordship (in Llanigon) was part of the Hay lordship owned by William Revel, one of Bernard's knights.{{Cite web |title=Hay Castles |url=http://www.castles99.ukprint.com/Essays/Wales/hay.html |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.castles99.ukprint.com}}{{Cite web |title=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Projects - Historic Landscapes - Middle Wye - Administrative Landscapes |url=https://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mwadmini.htm |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.cpat.org.uk}} Motte and bailey castles were typically built soon after a lordship was allocated to a knight.{{Cite web |title=BBC Four - Castles: Britain's Fortified History, Instruments of Invasion |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t6n19 |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}

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Hay-on-Wye grew after the conquest. Around 1121, a motte and bailey castle was built near St. Mary's. It is thought to have been built by William Revel. The castle remains are known as Hay Tump.{{cite book |last1=Silvester |first1=R. J. |url=https://www.cpat.org.uk/ycom/bbnp/hayonwye.pdf |title=Historic settlements in the Brecon Beacons National Park |last2=Martin |first2=C. H. R. |last3=Watson |first3=S. E. |date=2013 |publisher=Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust for Cadw |location=Welshpool |chapter=Hay-on-Wye |access-date=17 November 2024}}{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=John Paul |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Castles_of_Wales/eIdZEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT150&printsec=frontcover |title=Castles of Wales |date=2022 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books |location=9781526749963 |access-date=17 November 2024}} The church of St Mary's was built around 1135 and took over the role of the principal church and parish for the area. St. Mary's is near Login Brook and the River Wye.{{Cite web |title=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Projects - Historic Landscapes - Middle Wye - Administrative Landscapes |url=https://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mwfunera.htm |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=www.cpat.org.uk}}{{cite book |url=https://www.woolhopeclub.org.uk/system/files/documents/transaction/woolhope-club-1898-99_0.pdf |title=Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club |date=1900 |publisher=Jakeman & Carver |location=Hereford |page=35 |access-date=17 November 2024}}

The main part of the town was subsequently developed on a spur of land between the River Wye and Dulas Brook, about 200 metres east of Hay Tump. The town was fortified with walls and defended by Hay Castle,{{Cite web |title=Hay Castle (The Gatehouse Record) |url=https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/Welshsites/58.html |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info}} which appears to have been built from the late 12th century onwards. The earlier centre of settlement around Hay Tump and St Mary's Church lay outside the later town walls. A chapel dedicated to St John was subsequently built inside the town walls around 1254.{{cite web |title=St John's Chapel |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=7380 |website=Cadw |access-date=17 November 2024}}

In post-conquest times, Hay-on-Wye was divided between two manors, known as an Englishry (i.e. English Hay or Haya Anglicana) and a Welshry (i.e. Welsh Hay or Haya Wallensis).{{Cite web |title=Wales in the Middle Ages |url=https://owain-glyndwr.wales/age_of_the_princes/mediaeval_wales_detail.html |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=owain-glyndwr.wales}} The Englishry was within the fortified town of Hay. The Welshry was outside the fortified town; it included some rural land, the village of Llanigon and the hamlet of Glynfach.{{Cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalmemora01lloyuoft/page/n75/mode/2up?q=haya+wall |title=Historical memoranda of Breconshire |date=1903 |publisher=Brecon Printed by E. Owen |others=Robarts - University of Toronto |page=61}}{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=W.E.T. |date=1852 |title=Transactions of the Woolhope Club - Notes on Llanigon parish |url=https://www.woolhopeclub.org.uk/system/files/documents/transaction/woolhope-club-1898-99_0.pdf |page=35}}{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=W.E.T. |date=1921 |title=Further notes on the parish of Llanigon |url=https://www.woolhopeclub.org.uk/system/files/documents/transaction/woolhope-club-1921-2-3_1.pdf |page=13}}

In 1894,{{Cite web |title=Victorian Hay - early views menu |url=http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/hay/picmenu.shtml |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=history.powys.org.uk}} Hay Urban parish was created from part of the Hay Urban District. Hay Tump is within the Hay Urban parish. Hay Rural parish was created from the rural part of the parish of Hay, and includes another Norman castle called Llanthomas Castle Mound.{{Cite book |last=Ministry of Works |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.129542/page/n115/mode/2up?q=%22hay+rural%22 |title=List Of Ancient Monuments In England And Wales |date=1961 |page=117}}{{Cite web |title=Hay Registration District |url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/hay.html |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=www.ukbmd.org.uk}} It is on the same lane as the Hay Festival fields (Dairy Meadows). D. J. Cathcart King's list of UK castles numbers Hay Castle as Hay No. 1, Hay Tump as Hay No. 2 and Llanthomas Castle Mound as Hay No. 3.{{Cite web |last=King |first=D. J. Cathcart |title=Welsh Journals - Brycheiniog, Vol. 7, 1961 |url=https://journals.library.wales/view/1380216/1381527/121#?xywh=-671,216,4598,2174 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=journals.library.wales |page=88 |language=en}}

Hay Castle initially took the form of an earth ringwork with a stone gate-tower.{{harvnb|King|1961|p=69}}; {{cite web|url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/ycom/bbnp/hayonwye.pdf|title=Hay-on_Wye|publisher=Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust|access-date=2 May 2016|mode=cs2}} It was reinforced in stone around 1200 with a curtain wall.{{cite web|url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/ycom/bbnp/hayonwye.pdf|title=Hay-on_Wye|publisher=Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust|access-date=2 May 2016|mode=cs2}} The castle was damaged during the Welsh rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr around 1401, and again in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales/pp411-418|title='Hay – Herbrandston', in A Topographical Dictionary of Wales|date = 1849|author = Samuel Lewis| publisher=British History Online|access-date=2 May 2016|mode=cs2}} It was substantially expanded in the 17th century, creating a Jacobean mansion.{{cite web|url=http://www.coflein.gov.uk/pdf/CPG327/|title=Hay Castle|publisher=Coflein|access-date=2 May 2016|page=2|mode=cs2}} Substantial restoration work on Hay Castle was completed in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Hardaker |first=Alistair |date=2022-05-27 |title=Completed restoration sees Hay Castle publicly open for first time in centuries |url=https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/completed-restoration-sees-hay-castle-publicly-open-first-time-centuries/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=Museums + Heritage |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Hay Castle |url=https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/rsaw-award-winners/2024/hay-castle?srsltid=AfmBOooHxOLKsETB7o2jYjtlLAOfRojqo2MMhR9-WcSCQXBZdSplvEHY |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=www.architecture.com}}{{Cite web |title=Hay Castle Trust |url=https://www.haycastletrust.org/peerages.aspx |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=www.haycastletrust.org}}

Hay-on-Wye is a destination for bibliophiles in the United Kingdom, with two dozen bookshops, many selling specialist and second-hand books,[http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/bookshops/frameset.htm Hay-on-Wye booksellers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125210917/http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/bookshops/frameset.htm |date=25 January 2021 }}. Hay-on-wye.co.uk, Retrieved on 2008-05-04. although the number has declined sharply in recent years, many becoming general antique shops and similar.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/bookshops/default.asp|title=Bookshops in and around Hay-on-Wye|website=Hay-on-wye.co.uk|access-date=1 November 2021}} Hay-on-Wye was already well known for its many bookshops before the festival was launched. Richard Booth opened his first shop there, called The Old Fire Station, in 1962,{{Cite news|date=2019-08-22|title=Richard Booth obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/22/richard-booth-obituary|access-date=2021-03-01|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite web|author=Dominic Rech|title=The 'mini Trump' who built a kingdom out of books|url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/richard-booth-books-hay-on-wye-intl/index.html|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Cnn.com|date=31 August 2019 |language=en}} and by the 1970s Hay had gained the nickname "The Town of Books".{{Cite web|last=Laurence|first=Rebecca|title=The secrets of Britain's town of books|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170602-the-secrets-of-britains-town-of-books|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Bbc.com|language=en}}

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Since 1988, the Hay Festival based in Hay-on-Wye has been the venue for an annual literary festival, now sponsored by The Daily Telegraph newspaper, which draws a claimed 80,000 visitors over ten days at the end of May or beginning of June to see and hear big literary names from all over the world. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind".{{Cite news|date=2011-05-27|title=20 facts about Hay-on-Wye and its famous festival|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-13561739|access-date=2021-03-03}}{{Cite news|date=2012-05-24|title=Hay book fest marks 25th at "Woodstock of the mind"|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-books-britain-hay-idUSBRE84N10Y20120524|access-date=2021-03-03}} Tony Benn said: "In my mind it's replaced Christmas".{{Cite news|date=2000-05-26|title=Hay Festival of Literature|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/26/netnotes.gideonspanier|access-date=2021-03-03|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en}} In late July 2021, co-founder and director Peter Florence resigned as Festival Director.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/26/hay-festival-founder-suspended-bullying-allegations-peter-florence |title=Hay festival founder suspended after bullying allegations|first=Alison|last=Flood|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 October 2020}}

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There are two tiers of local government covering Hay, at community (town) and county level: Hay Town Council and Powys County Council. The town council is based at offices on Brecon Road.{{cite web |title=Get in touch |url=https://www.haytowncouncil.gov.uk/contact.html |website=Hay Town Council |access-date=18 November 2024}} For elections to Powys County Council, there is a ward called Hay which covers the same area as the community of Hay.{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=18 November 2024}}

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The parish of Hay was created around 1135 from the north-eastern parts of the older parish of Llanigon. Until 1536 Hay was a marcher lordship. In 1536 the Hay lordship was included in the new county of Brecknockshire.{{cite book |title=Laws in Wales Act 1535 |date=1536 |page=246 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Statutes_at_Large_of_England_and_of/do1KAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA246&printsec=frontcover |access-date=14 November 2024}}

The area of the fortified town was sometimes described as a borough, but it was never given a charter and it appears that no borough council ever operated; instead the town was administered by officials appointed by the lord of the manor.{{cite book |title=First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: Part 1 |date=1835 |page=250 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/First_Report_of_the_Commissioners_Appoin/7pNRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA250&printsec=frontcover |access-date=18 November 2024}} Any residual claim Hay may have had to be called a borough was extinguished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883.{{cite book |title=Municipal Corporations Act 1883 (46 & 46 Vict. Ch. 18) |date=1883 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1883/18/pdfs/ukpga_18830018_en.pdf | access-date=2 September 2023}}

In 1864 the north-eastern part of the parish of Hay, covering the built-up area as it then was and some adjacent areas, was made a local government district, administered by an elected local board.{{London Gazette|issue=22905|page=5008|date=25 October 1864}} Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894. The 1894 Act also directed that parishes were no longer allowed to straddle district boundaries, and so the parish of Hay was split into a Hay Urban parish covering the same area as the urban district, and a Hay Rural parish covering the part of the old parish outside the urban district.

Hay Urban District was abolished in 1974, with its area instead becoming a community called Hay within the Borough of Brecknock in the new county of Powys. The former urban district council's functions therefore passed to Brecknock Borough Council, which was in turn abolished in 1996 and its functions passed to Powys County Council.{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|accessdate=6 October 2022}}{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Wales) Act 1994|year=1994|chapter=19|accessdate=9 October 2022}} The Hay Rural parish also became a community in 1974, but was abolished in 1986 and its area absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Llanigon.{{cite web |last1=Langston |first1=Brett |title=Hay Registration District |url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/hay.html |website=UK BMD |access-date=18 November 2024}}

The B4350 runs through the town and the B4351 links it with the main A438 from Brecon to Hereford, on the far side of the River Wye.{{cite web|url=https://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/tourism/find|title=Where is Hay-on-Wye?|publisher=Hay-on-Wye Tourist Bureau |access-date=13 June 2022}} The town has a road/pedestrian bridge spanning the River Wye linking Clyro with Hay-on-Wye.{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Hay-on-Wye |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43066/images/ |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}

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The town was formerly served by train services at Hay-on-Wye railway station{{Cite web |title=Facebook - Hay Railway Station |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10234453057774188&set=pcb.7840690669369920 |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=www.facebook.com}} on the Hereford, Hay and Brecon line. On a stormy night in 1880, a goods train on the way to Brecon was derailed and destroyed a 3-arch masonry bridge. The train fell into Digeddi Brook at Little Ffordd Fawr, near Llanigon. The driver George Parker died, and his stoker John Williams had life changing injuries.{{Cite web |title=Facebook - 17th June 1880, Hay to Brecon goods train derailed at Little Ffordd Fawr near Llanigon. |url=https://www.facebook.com/TalgarthHistory/photos/a.825771070849209/1765233056903001/?type=3&locale=ms_MY&_rdr |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=ms-my.facebook.com |language=ms}}{{Cite book |last=Poole |first=Edwin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1gQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2 |title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day |date=1886 |publisher= |pages=212, 213, 215 |language=en}} The line closed in 1962, due to the line's commercial underperformance.{{cite web|url=http://www.glasburyhistoricalsociety.co.uk/transportrailway.htm|title=Railways - Horse and Steam|work=Glasbury Historical Society|access-date=9 March 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Transport Rail |url=http://www.glasburyhistoricalsociety.co.uk/transportrailway.htm |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=www.glasburyhistoricalsociety.co.uk}}

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Hay St. Mary's Football Club is based on Hay Sports Field, off Brecon Road,{{Cite web|url=https://www.haystmarysfc.co.uk/?page_id=313 |title=Hay St. Mary's Football Club website |website=Haystmarysfc.co.uk |publisher=Hay St. Mary's FC |date= |access-date=2021-06-24}} and they compete in the {{Welsh football updater|HayStMa}}.{{Cite web|url=https://midwalesleague.pitchero.com/ |title=The Mid Wales Football League |website=Midwalesleague.pitchero.com |publisher=MWL |date= |access-date=2021-06-24}}{{Cite web |title=Facebook - Hay St. Mary's Football club |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/712795055457066/?locale=en_GB}}

Hay-on-Wye Cricket Club is also located on Hay Sports Field.{{Cite web|url=https://haycc.play-cricket.com/Aboutus |title=Hay-on-Wye Cricket Club website |website=Haycc.play-cricket.com |access-date=2021-06-24}}{{Cite web |title=Facebook - Hay-on-Wye Cricket club |url=https://www.facebook.com/hayonwyecc/?locale=en_GB}} The 1st team compete in The Marches Cricket League.{{Cite web|url=https://marches.play-cricket.com |title=The Marches Cricket League |website=Marches.play-cricket.com |publisher=MCL |date= |access-date=2021-06-24}}

Hay-on-Wye bowling club is affiliated to the Mid Wales Bowling Association{{Cite web |title=Mid Wales Bowling Association - Home |url=https://www.midwalesbowling.co.uk/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.midwalesbowling.co.uk}} and the Women's Mid Wales Bowling Association.{{Cite web |title=Welsh Bowls - Welsh Bowls |url=https://www.welshbowls.co.uk/component/djcatalog2/items/15-mid-wales-women-s-bowling-association |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.welshbowls.co.uk |language=en-gb}}{{Cite web |title=Hay-on-Wye Bowling Club |url=https://www.haybowlingclub.co.uk/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=www.haybowlingclub.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Facebook - Hay-on-Wye bowling club |url=https://www.facebook.com/p/Hay-on-Wye-Bowling-Club-100083546373755/}}

Hay Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1903. The club continued on its nine-hole course until the onset of World War II.{{Cite web |title=Hay Golf Club, Powys. (1903 - WW2) |url=http://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/wales-64/1050-hay-golf-club |access-date=2021-06-24 |website=Golfsmissinglinks.co.uk |publisher=}}

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Hay hosts a philosophy and music festival, HowTheLightGetsIn, which occurs annually in May. It aims "to get philosophy out of the academy and into people's lives."{{cite web | last=Pauli | first=Michelle | title=Enlightenment comes to the Hay festival | website=The Guardian | date=22 May 2009 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/22/hay-festival-enlightenment-fringe}}

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In 2013, Hay-on-Wye had 145 Listed Building entries.{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Hay-on-Wye Conservation Area Appraisal |url=https://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/oldsite/the-authority/planning/heritage2/Hay%20on%20Wye%20third%20draft%20CAA%20pdf%20May%209th.pdf |publisher=Brecon Beacons National Park Authority}} All are Grade II listed apart from Hay Castle{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports - Hay Castle |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7405 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein- Hay Castle |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/25593/?term=hay%20castle |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=coflein.gov.uk}} which is Grade I listed. Other listed buildings include St Mary's parish church,{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports - St Mary's Parish Church |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7410 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - St Mary's Parish Church |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/417761/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=coflein.gov.uk}} Dulas Bridge (Newport St),{{Cite web |title=Bridge, Cusop - 1099471 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1099471 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} the Swan Hotel (Church St),{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports - Swan Hotel, including Courtyard Buildings to rear |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7349 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Swan Hotel |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/16242/?term=swan%20inn,%20%20hay-on-wye |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=coflein.gov.uk}} Harley’s Almshouses (4 Brecon Rd),{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports - Harley's Almshouses |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7290 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}} Post Office (3 High Town),{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports - Hay-on-Wye Post Office |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7361 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}} Ashbrook House (1 Brecon Rd),{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports - Ashbrook House |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7286 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Ashbrook House |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/25111/?term=Ashbrook%20House |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=coflein.gov.uk}} part of the town wall{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Town Walls |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306316/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=coflein.gov.uk}} and many of the town centre inns and shops.{{cite web |title=Listed Buildings in Hay, Powys |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/hay-powys#.Xtkd_jpKhPY |website=Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}} Oakfield is a Grade II listed Regency house located south of the town centre: built in about 1820, it was recorded in 1842 as the home of Henry Allen Junior.{{NHAW|desc=Oakfield, Hay-on-Wye|num=7299|access-date=13 June 2022}}File:Church of St Mary, Hay-on-Wye - geograph.org.uk - 437400.jpgThe Butter Market{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7394 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}} was commissioned by William Enoch and erected in the form of a Doric temple in 1833.{{Cite web |title=The Butter Market, Hay-on-Wye - History Points |url=https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=the-butter-market-hay-on-wye |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=historypoints.org}} the Cheese Market{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7393 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}} was commissioned by Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet and completed in 1835.{{Cite web |title=The Cheese Market, Hay-on-Wye - History Points |url=https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=the-cheese-market |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=historypoints.org}} The Butter Market and the Cheese Market had an arcaded ground floor to sell butter and cheese and dairy products, respectively.{{Cite web |last=Express |first=Britain |title=Hay-on-Wye History & Tourist Information |url=https://www.britainexpress.com/wales/mid/az/hay-on-wye.htm |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Britain Express |language=en}} The first-floor assembly room has now been renovated to serve as holiday accommodation. On the end wall is a sculpture of Henry VII.

Hay-on-Wye has a Victorian clock tower about 50 ft high. The tower was erected in 1881 at a cost of £300.{{coflein|desc=Broad Street Clock Tower, Hay On Wye|num=32549|access-date=13 June 2022}} It is built of dressed Bath stone and native stone from Christfield quarry. It was known by locals as the "clockless tower". The clock faces and bell were added in 1884 after fund-raising by Canon Bevan and family. It was set going on Christmas Day 1884. The bell was paid for by a donation as a memorial to T. W. Higgins, Hay, and Guidfa House, Radnorshire.

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Christian chapels and churches in Hay-on-Wye include:

• St. Mary's Church (Church in Wales) built in the early 12th century. It serves other local churches including{{Cite web |title=St Mary's, Hay |url=https://stmaryschurchhayonwye.co.uk/history/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=St. Mary's Church |language=en-US}} St. John’s Chapel, in Lion Street;{{Cite web |title=St John's Chapel, Hay |url=https://stmaryschurchhayonwye.co.uk/st-johns-chapel-2/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=St. Mary's Church |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - St. John's Chapel, Hay-on-Wye |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/23169/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |title=St John's Chapel, Hay 1 |url=http://history.powys.org.uk/history/hay/stjohn1.html |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=history.powys.org.uk}} St. Eigon, Llanigon;{{Cite web |title=St Eigon's, Llanigon |url=https://stmaryschurchhayonwye.co.uk/st-eigons/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=St. Mary's Church |language=en-US}} St. Mary’s, Capel-y-Ffin{{Cite web |title='Little' St Mary's, Capel-y-Ffin |url=https://stmaryschurchhayonwye.co.uk/little-st-marys-capel-y-ffin/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=St. Mary's Church |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - St. Mary's, Capel-y-Ffin |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/308211/images/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}} etc.

• Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist (now the Presbyterian Church of Wales), a chapel located in Belmont Road, built in 1828, developed in 1872 and active until about 1963. It was repurposed as a Roman Catholic church in 1967.
• From 1892 to 1925, Roman Catholic Mass was celebrated in alternative weeks in the homes of H.R. Grant and T. J. Madigan. From 1925 to 1967, the hired assembly room over the Cheese Market was used a Mass centre.{{cite web |title=The Cheese Market, Hay-on-Wye |url=https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=the-cheese-market |access-date=13 June 2022 |publisher=History Points}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - St. Joseph's RC Church, Hay-on-Wye |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/6050/images/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Hay-on-Wye - St Joseph |url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/hay-on-wye-st-joseph/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Taking Stock |language=en-GB}} Since 1967, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Belmont Road has been used.
• Salem Baptist Chapel located in Bell Bank, built around 1650 and developed{{Cite web |title=John's Homepage - Salem Baptist Chapel |url=https://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/churches/hay4.htm |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=www.jlb2011.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Breconshire Nonconformist Records |url=https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Breconshire_Nonconformist_Records |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=www.familysearch.org}}{{Cite web |title=The Chapels Heritage Society - Glasbury and Hay-on-Wye |url=https://www.capeli.org.uk/uploads/local_07_hayonwye_glasbury.pdf}}{{Cite web |title=Welsh Independent Chapels |url=https://addoldaicymru.cymru/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Welsh-Chapel-images-May-12-September-02-2018.pdf}} in 1814 and 1877. The second oldest Nonconformist chapel in Wales. The associated schoolroom may be the oldest schoolroom in Wales. Repurposed as a Yoga studio in 2018.{{Cite web |last=Express |first=Britain |title=Hay-on-Wye History & Tourist Information |url=https://www.britainexpress.com/wales/mid/az/hay-on-wye.htm |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Britain Express |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Salem Baptist Chapel |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/12270/images/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}
• Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Chapel located in St. Mary's Road (1771) now a private dwelling, Castle Street (1823) and then Oxford Road (built in 1872 and developed in 1903) and active until about 1910. Repurposed as the Oxford Road post office in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Victorian Hay - Wesleyan Methodist chapel |url=http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/hay/chapel.shtml |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=history.powys.org.uk}}{{Cite web |title=The Hay on Wye Walk-around - (1) Trinity Methodist Chapel. |url=https://www.capeli.org.uk/uploads/local_07_hayonwye_glasbury.pdf}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/6052/images/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |title=John's Homepage - Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Chapel |url=https://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/churches/hay3.htm |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=www.jlb2011.co.uk}}
• Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chapel located in Oxford Road built in 1865. Repurposed as Bethesda Evangelical Church in 1953.{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Bethesda Evangelical Church, Hay-on-Wye |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/6051/images/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Church History |url=https://www.bethesdaechay.org/church-history |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=bethesda-evangelical |language=en}}
• Ebenezer (Congregational/URC) Independent Methodist Chapel located in Castle Street and then Broad Street (built in 1845). Repurposed as an Arts Centre in 2000.{{Cite web |title=Listed Buildings - Full Report - HeritageBill Cadw Assets - Reports |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=7399 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net}}{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Ebenezer Methodist Chapel |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/6048/images/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Breconshire Nonconformist Records |url=https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Breconshire_Nonconformist_Records |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.familysearch.org}}{{Cite web |last=Stuff |first=Good |title=Ebenezer United Reformed Church, Hay-on-Wye, Powys |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300007399-ebenezer-united-reformed-church-hay |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}
• Quakers Friends' Meeting House located in Bridge Street in 1851, now a private dwelling.{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Quakers, Friends' Meeting House, Bridge Street, Hay-On-Wye |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/12357/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}
• Salvation Army Hall/Citadel located in Lion Street in 1887, now St. John's Chapel, in Lion Street.{{Cite web |title=English – Coflein - Salvation Army Hall, Lion Street, Hay-On-Wye |url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/97171/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=coflein.gov.uk}}

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On 1 April 1977 bibliophile Richard Booth conceived a publicity stunt in which he declared Hay-on-Wye to be an "independent kingdom" with himself as its monarch, and a National Anthem written by Les Penning. The tongue-in-cheek micronation of Hay-on-Wye has subsequently developed a healthy tourism industry based on literary interests, for which some credit Booth.{{cite news

|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/halloffame/arts/richard_booth.shtml

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In 2005, Booth announced plans to sell his bookshop and move to Germany; on this occasion, the local MP, Roger Williams, was quoted as saying: "His legacy will be that Hay changed from a small market town into a mecca for second and book lovers and this transformed the local economy."{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/4159106.stm|title=Self-styled king of Hay sells up|website=bbc.co.uk|date=2005-08-18|access-date=2007-05-11}}

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• Herbert Rowse Armstrong (1869–1922), the "Hay Poisoner"; the only UK solicitor to have been hanged for murder.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-12 |title=The Hay Poisoner: Was Herbert Armstrong wrongly hanged? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66439470 |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Richard Booth (1938–2019), self-proclaimed "King of Hay".{{Cite news |date=2019-08-20 |title=Richard Booth: Bookshop owner and 'king of Hay-on-Wye' dies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49406605 |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Jason "J" Brown (born 1976), singer in boy band Five.{{Cite web |title=Facebook - Jason Brown, Fan Page | website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/Jason.J.Brown.Fan.Page/?locale=hr_HR&_rdr}}
• Lady Penelope Betjeman (nee Chetwode) (1910–1986), English travel writer (and wife of Sir John Betjeman, the Poet Laureate).{{cite magazine | url = https://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/19th-april-1986/19/penelope-betjeman | title = Penelope Betjeman | last = Stamp | first = Gavin | date = 1986-04-19 | website = The Spectator | access-date = 28 April 2021 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20220526111846/http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/19th-april-1986/19/penelope-betjeman | archive-date = 2022-05-26}}
• Chris Davies (born 1967), managed a veterinary practice in Hay-on-Wye, politician and MP for Brecon and Radnorshire 2015 to 2019.{{Cite news |last=Association |first=Press |date=2019-03-22 |title=Tory MP Christopher Davies admits expenses offences |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/tory-mp-christopher-davies-admits-expenses-offences |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |date=2019-06-21 |title=MP Chris Davies unseated after petition triggers by-election |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-48720176 |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), scholar, authored books on cultural history and Christendom.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-01 |title=Heroic Historian - John Duggan |url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/05/heroic-historian |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=First Things |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Stephen G. |date=2006 |title=Historian of the Spirit: An Introduction to the Life and Ideas of Christopher H. Dawson, 1889-1970 |url=https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2949/1/2949_780.pdf}}
• Harold Dearden (1882-1962), lived in Hay-on-Wye, British psychiatrist and screenwriter.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Harold Dearden – Psychiatrist at Camp 020 |url=https://josefjakobs.info/2014/04/dr-harold-dearden-psychiatrist-at-camp_11.html |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=}}
• Margarette Golding (1881–1939), lived in Hay-on-Wye, nurse, businessperson and the founder of the "Inner Wheel".{{Cite web |last=Crump |first=Eryl |date=2017-04-08 |title=North Wales birthplace of international women's group founder revealed |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-birthplace-international-womens-12816962 |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=North Wales Live |language=en}}
• Eileen Hutchins (1902–1987), a Steiner school teacher.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://elmfield.com/about-us |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School in Stourbridge |language=en-GB}}
• George Hay Morgan (1866–1931), politician and MP for Truro 1906 to 1918.{{Cite web |title=Mr George Morgan (Hansard) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-george-morgan-1/index.html |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=api.parliament.uk}}
• John P. Jones (1829-1912), born in Hay-on-Wye, emigrated to the United States and became a Republican United States Senator.{{Cite web |title=Bioguide Search |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000237 |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}
• Josie Pearson (born 1986), Paralympian athlete and Gold Medal winner at the 2012 Paralympic Games.{{Cite web |title=Alumni > Notable Alumni > Josie Pearson MBE (2002-2005) {{!}} Hereford Sixth form college |url=https://www.hereford.ac.uk/alumni/notable-alumni/josie-pearson-mbe-(2002-2005)/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=www.hereford.ac.uk}} A Royal Mail postbox in Church St is painted in gold in her honour.{{Cite news |date=2012-09-10 |title=Paralympian Josie Pearson's gold post box honour |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-19542273 |access-date=2024-12-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• Leigh Richmond Roose (1877–1916), son of Rev. Richmond Leigh Roose (a minister at the Calvinistic Methodist Tabernacle in Belmont Rd). Leigh was a Wales international footballer. He died in the battle of the Somme and is commemorated at the Thiepval memorial in France.{{Cite web |last=CWGC |title=Lance Corporal Leigh Rouse {{!}} War Casualty Details 810223 |url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/810223/leigh-rouse/ |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=CWGC |language=en}}
• Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950), lived near Hay-on-Wye, author of romance and adventure novels.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswho1926001356mbp |title=Who's Who 1926 |date=1926 |publisher=The Macmillan Company |others= |location=London |pages=2546, 2861}}
• Jenny Valentine (born 1970), children's novelist.{{Cite web |last= |title=ReadingZone |url=https://www.readingzone.com/authors/jenny-valentine/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website= |language=en}}
• Cleo Watson (born 1989), grew up in Hay-on-Wye, chief of staff for Theresa May and a special advisor to Boris Johnson.{{Cite web |last=Watson |first=Cleo |date=2022-07-28 |title=Cleo Watson – Boris Johnson’s former aide, now published novelist – lifts the lid on life in Westminster |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/cleo-watson-whips-book |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}

• Sedbergh – the national book town of England
• Wigtown – the national book town of Scotland

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• {{cite journal |last1=King |first1=D.J. Cathcart |title=The Castles of Breconshire |date=1961 |journal=Brycheiniog |volume=7 |pages=71–94}}
• Remfry, P.M., Hay on Wye Castle, 1066 to 1298 ({{ISBN|1-899376-07-0}})

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• [http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/ Official website]
• [http://www.hayonwye.co.uk/ Local tourism website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303110118/http://oldhay.co.uk/ Old photographs and history]

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