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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.
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.
Relief map of the Brecon Beacons National Park (bordered), with the Brecon Beacons located in the central area of the national park.. The Brecon Beacons comprises six main peaks, which from west to east are: Corn Du, 873 metres (2,864 ft); Pen y Fan, the highest peak, 886 metres (2,907 ft); Cribyn, 795 metres (2,608 ft); Fan y Bîg, 719 metres (2,359 ft); Bwlch y Ddwyallt, 754 metres (2,474 ft ...
Bronllys is a village and community situated in Powys, Wales, nestled between the towns of Brecon and Talgarth. The village is part of the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and serves as an electoral ward for Powys County Council. The community also encompasses the nearby village of Llyswen.
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.
Map of the Welsh cantrefs, showing the location of Buellt, in the middle Buellt, 1797. Buellt or Builth was a cantref in medieval Wales, located west of the River Wye.Unlike most cantrefs, it was not part of any of the major Welsh kingdoms for most of its history, but was instead ruled by an autonomous local dynasty.
Erwood (Welsh: Erwyd) is a village and community lying beside the River Wye, on the A470 road some 6 miles south-east of Builth Wells in Powys, Wales. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 429. [1] It is in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the older cantref of Cantref Selyf.