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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.
Talgarth is a market town, community and electoral ward in southern Powys, Mid Wales, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Crickhowell, 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Brecon and 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Builth Wells.
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 ...
In 1536 the new county of Brecknockshire was created, with Brecon as its county town. [30] The borough of Brecon's responsibilities were originally primarily judicial, holding various courts. The borough council also owned the manorial rights to the borough, oversaw the town's market and fairs, and ran elections for the borough's member of ...
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
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
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]