A HAUNTINGLY empty village wiped off the map by fears of a “moving mountain” has just one eerie survivor – and now it can be yours for just £35,000.
The last standing home in the abandoned Welsh village of Troedrhiwfwch is up for auction.
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The last standing home in the abandoned Welsh village of Troedrhiwfwch is up for auction Credit: WNS
Pictured here are historic pictures of the village before it was demolished Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
The sale comes 50 years after 93 neighbouring houses were bulldozed amid terrifying landslip warnings.
Once home to more than 600 people, the tight-knit mining community – known locally as “Troedy” – vanished street by street as officials feared the mountainside looming above could collapse without warning.
But in a twist, one ordinary three-bed house at 2 Lawrence Avenue was spared – and the mountain never came crashing down.
Today, the lonely property sits marooned among ghostly, flattened streets where homes, a school and even a bustling village life once stood.
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The property itself offers two reception rooms Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
Today, the lonely property sits marooned among ghostly, flattened streets Credit: WNS
Only the old Post Office building remains alongside it.
Auctioneer Sean Roper said the reason the house escaped demolition remains unknown.
He said: “Why this otherwise ordinary three-bedroom house survived while all the others didn’t remains a bit of a mystery – and it may be a story a new owner will want to unravel.”
The village, which once boasted a church, chapel, library, pub, shop and school, began to decline after experts flagged the unstable ground as early as the 1930s.
Once home to more than 600 people, the tight-knit mining community vanished street by street Credit: WNS
The property also has a kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor, with three bedrooms upstairs Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
By the 1950s, fears of a catastrophic landslide intensified – and by the 1980s, families were forced to abandon their homes as bulldozers moved in to erase the village for good.
Mr Roper added: “It’s a vastly overused word, but this is a truly unique sale.
“The house offers a real-life connection to a vanished community where hundreds of people once lived, worked and raised families.
“It’s a curious and poignant link to another age.”
Despite its eerie isolation, the property itself offers two reception rooms, a kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor, with three bedrooms upstairs – plus a rear yard, sheds and a front garden.
Set against dramatic mountainside views, it’s being pitched as an incredible opportunity for investors or brave buyers willing to own a slice of lost history.
