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Hand-drawn map of Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire by Christopher Saxton in 1578 The county of Brecknock was created in 1536 under the Laws in Wales Act 1535, which formally incorporated Wales into the Kingdom of England and extended English models of government, including counties, across all of Wales.
The borough of Brecknock was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.It covered the area of the administrative county of Brecknockshire, which was abolished at the same time, with the exceptions of Brynmawr and Llanelly, which were transferred to Gwent, and Penderyn and Vaynor, which were transferred to Mid Glamorgan.
English: Map showing the historic county of Brecknockshire in red, one of the thirteen historic counties within Wales, shaded in dark pink. Date 3 November 2022
Brecknockshire location map: Date: 11 January 2014: Source: British Isles in counties.svg: Author: User:Visitor from Wikishire: Permission (Reusing this file)
After the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, the area now known as England became divided into seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex. A number of other smaller political divisions and sub-kingdoms existed.
The maps included the area of most civil parishes and their detached parts, as well as extra-parochial areas and townships. Originally the area of these places was given in acres, roods and perches. [4] After about 1879 this was changed to solely acres, with area given to three decimal places. As boundary changes occurred throughout the late ...
Front page of the earliest surviving copy on The Brecon County Times, 5 May 1866. Brecon (/ ˈ b r ɛ k ən /; [3] Welsh: Aberhonddu; pronounced [ˌabɛrˈhɔnði]), [citation needed] archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales.
Llanelly (Welsh: Llanelli) is a village, community, and parish in the county of Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, within the historic county boundaries of Brecknockshire. It roughly covers the area of the Clydach Gorge. The population of the community and ward at the 2011 census was 3,899. [1]