The name 'Felindre' comes from the words 'melin tref', meaning 'mill farm'. By the 17th century, Felindre was a part of the parish of Tregoyd and Felindre, which the Gwernyfed estate extended into. Water from Felindre Brook was used to fill fishponds in Old Gwernyfed manor. The
chapel of ease for Felindre, a chapel for the parish church in Glasbury, closed in the 1690s, and it is believed that the archway from the church was incorporated into the entrance porch of Old Gwernyfed. In 1862, Thomas II Wood, the owner of Old Gwernyfed, donated a piece of land in Felindre village to be used as a
Presbyterian chapel. The chapel held services in both English and Welsh. In the 1870s, John Marius Wilson described Felindre in his
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as 'a hamlet in Glasbury parish'. Felindre School, a
voluntary controlled school managed by the Church, was opened in 1877; a reservoir, fed by water from Felindre Brook, was later built above the school. In 1937, a celebration took place in Felindre to mark the coronation of
George VI, involving a horse-drawn procession through the village. The Felindre
Women's Institute was founded in 1947. Additional council houses were built in the village by E.T.D Lewis, vicar of
St Peter's Church, Glasbury between 1946 and 1984, and Felindre village hall was built in 1976. Felindre School was closed by
Powys County Council in 1993. ==Amenities==