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Tre-Taliesin is a village in Ceredigion on the A487 road, 9 miles north of Aberystwyth, Wales, and 9 miles south of Machynlleth. It is in the parish of Llangynfelyn.

The village is known for the Bedd Taliesin, a hilltop Bronze Age tumulus which is traditionally regarded as the site for the grave of the Welsh bard, Taliesin.
The cairn has no proven connection with the historical Taliesin, a 6th century poet esteemed by the poets of medieval Wales as the founder of the Welsh poetic tradition whose surviving work includes praise poems to the rulers of the early Welsh kingdom of Powys and the Kingdom of Rheged in the Hen Ogledd (modern northern England/southern Scotland).

The village was established in the 1820s, when a number of houses were built on former common land that had been sold to fund the drainage of Cors Fochno. The village then further expanded in the 1860s to house the families of miners working in the lead mines in the area. Prior to the 1820s there were only a few scattered houses known as 'Tafarn Fach'

The village includes a chapel (Rehoboth), a primary school (Llangynfelyn) and a community hall (Llanfach).