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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.
Mordecai Jones (1813-1880), businessman, pioneered the South Wales coalfield, Mayor of Brecon in 1854. Frances Hoggan (1843–1927), first British woman to receive a doctorate in medicine; Ernest Howard Griffiths (1851–1932), physicist and academic; Gwenllian Morgan (1852–1939), the first woman in Wales to hold the office of Mayor.
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.
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]
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]
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 ...
Three Cocks or Aberllynfi (Welsh: [ˌabɛrˈɬənvi]) is a village near Glasbury in Powys, Wales. The Welsh name refers to the mouth of the Afon Llynfi which enters the River Wye a mile from the village. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye some 5 miles (8.5 km) to the northeast.
Relief map of the national park, with an inset on the location in Wales to the top-left. Pen y Fan seen from Cribyn Fan Brycheiniog, the highest peak on the Black Mountain. The area covered by the national park stretches from Llandeilo in the west to Hay-on-Wye in the northeast and Pontypool in the southeast, covering 519 square miles (1,340 km 2).