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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.
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.
Llanwrtyd is a small settlement in Powys, mid-Wales, in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), through which flows the River Irfon. It lies 1.5 miles north of the town of Llanwrtyd Wells. Llanwrtyd was historically the centre of a much larger parish which included Llanwrtyd Wells.
Beaufort (Welsh: Cendl or Y Cendl) is a village and community on the northern edge of the county borough of Blaenau Gwent in Wales. It is located in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the preserved county of Gwent. According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward and community of Beaufort is 3,866 [1]
Gilwern is a village historically in Breconshire now in Monmouthshire about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Abergavenny, close to where the A40 trunk road and the A465 Heads of the Valleys road meet. The River Usk and the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal are close to the village. [1] Gilwern Hill lies to the south of the village.
Oneida County and Utica, New York became the cultural center of the Welsh-American community in the 19th century. Suffering from poor harvests in 1789 and 1802 and dreaming of land ownership, the initial settlement of five Welsh families soon attracted other agricultural migrants, settling Steuben, Utica and Remsen townships.
One of the village's notable historical landmarks is Bronllys Castle, a motte and bailey fortress standing south of the village, towards Talgarth.The castle was originally founded around 1100 by Richard Fitz Pons, the owner of the adjacent Herefordshire barony of Clifford, who was a supporter of Bernard of Neufmarché, the Lord of Brecknock (in which the land around Bronllys fell).
Ystradfellte (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌəstradˈvɛɬtɛ] ⓘ) is a village and community in Powys, Wales, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Hirwaun, with 556 inhabitants.It belongs to the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the Fforest Fawr area of the Brecon Beacons National Park, beside the Afon Mellte river.