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Hay-on-Wye

market town in the traditional county and district of Brecknockshire in Wales
Place Market Town Q174734
Hay-on-Wye
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Facts

12 properties

Designation

Instance of
market town, book town[4]
Heritage designation
National Monument of Wales[10]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.076°, -3.131°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hay[2]
More facts +7
Official website
www.hay-on-wye.co.uk[7]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9]
Historic county
Brecknockshire[13]
OS grid reference
SO225425[6]
Official name
Y Gelli Gandryll, Hay-on-Wye[11][12]
Population
+1598[8]
Twinned administrative body
Timbuktu[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hay-on-Wye ar هاي أون واي fa هی-اون-وای he היי-און-וואי ja ヘイ・オン・ワイ ko 헤이온와이 ru Хэй-он-Уай tr Hay-on-Wye Krallığı zh 海伊 zh 海怡 zh 瓦伊河畔海伊
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
152642220
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n2003037945
GND ID
4537553-7
BBC News topic ID
cjkm5xxng5yt
BBC Things ID
1cf37d7f-61b1-4725-acde-faec67c45998
Coflein ID
32995
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Wales/Powys/Hay-on-Wye/
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
7a3542bb-96cb-46f9-a16d-21e26923db8e
FactGrid item ID
Parham
Freebase ID
/m/0_1pn
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2598355
GeoNames ID
11.6M (2.6M–12.3M, n=3)
Show all 28 identifiers +16
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7011994
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Hay-on-Wye
J9U entity ID
987007482432805171
Lex ID
Hay-on-Wye
National Library of Wales Authority ID
hay-on-wye
Quora topic ID
Hay-on-Wye
SNARC ID
Andrew Johnson
TOID
4000000074543438
TermCymru ID
169445863
Topic's main category
Category:Hay-on-Wye
UN/LOCODE
GBXHW
Vision of Britain place ID
497
Who's on First ID
1360712225
Wikishire article ID
Hay-on-Wye
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJhxry6bt94vMHvFpfycfq
Yale LUX ID
place/524d3e8b-f472-4663-ab19-3616f4d50d7c
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
market town, book town
Located in this place 2
Hay Castle, Hay Festival
People born here 2
Christopher Dawson, Richard Booth
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
FactGrid item ID 1
Parham
Historic county 1
Brecknockshire
Residents 1
Violet Jacob
SNARC ID 1
Andrew Johnson
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hay-on-Wye
Twinned administrative body 1
Timbuktu
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hay-on-Wye
← Twinned administrative body 1
Timbuktu
← Work location 1
Jenny Valentine
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Summary

Hay-on-Wye is a market town[1].

Related Entities

Andrew Johnson Timbuktu United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . List of Standardised Welsh Place-names. comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . List of Standardised Welsh Place-names. comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → market town, book town
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Hay
    Population → 1,598
    BBC Things ID → 1cf37d7f-61b1-4725-acde-faec67c45998
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: BBC Things ID: 1cf37d7f-61b1-4725-acde-faec67c45998"
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