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    Brecknockshire (Welsh: Brycheiniog or Sir Frycheiniog), also known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon, was one of the thirteen...
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  • The Brecknockshire Battalion was a Welsh unit of the British Army's auxiliary forces. First raised in 1859, it became a Volunteer Battalion of the South...
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  • The Brecknockshire Militia, later the Royal Brecknockshire Rifles, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised from earlier precursor units in the Welsh county...
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  • Newton (Welsh name Trenewydd) is a hamlet located between the market town of Brecon and the village of Llansantffraed, mid Wales, on the A40 road. It was...
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  • Beulah is a village in southern Powys, Wales, in the community of Treflys, lying on the Afon Cammarch. The village sits astride the main A483 road about...
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    authorities in 1974, Brynmawr was administered as part of the county of Brecknockshire. According to the 2011 Census, 6.0% of the ward's 5,530 (332 residents)...
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    Brecknockshire Agricultural Society is a Welsh Agricultural Society, established in 1755 in Brecknockshire. Celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2005,...
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  • This is a list of High Sheriffs of Brecknockshire or Breconshire. The office of High Sheriff of Brecknockshire was established in 1535 since when a High...
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    Brycheiniog (category Brecknockshire)
    later formed the southern and larger part of the historic county of Brecknockshire. To its south was the Kingdom of Morgannwg. The main legacy of the kingdom...
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  • pass of the crimson hill A4067 between Defynnog and Abercraf SN870219 Brecknockshire Powys Brecon Beacons Bwlch Cerrig Duon English: pass of the black stones...
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    Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and Brecknockshire. Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire, and part of historic...
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    Brecon, Wales. The building was designed as the headquarters of the 1st (Brecknockshire) Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers and was completed in the...
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  • served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. After 1723, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Brecknockshire. The office was abolished on...
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    Brychan Brycheiniog was a legendary 5th-century king of Brycheiniog (Brecknockshire, alternatively Breconshire) in Mid Wales. Brychan had Irish ancestry...
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    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...
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  • " In 1850 Denning was listed as a curate in Diocese of St David's, Brecknockshire. In Reverend James Denning's immediate family tree the middle names...
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  • historic counties, namely Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and most of Brecknockshire. There are 950 scheduled monuments within the county, which is far more...
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    councillors. Radnorshire area has 12 wards electing 14 county councillors. Brecknockshire area has 19 wards electing 23 county councillors. * = Communities which...
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  • sites in Brecknockshire (also historically known as Breconshire, and not including those parts that are no longer in Powys). Brecknockshire is the southern...
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    showing lands belonging to the Duke of Beaufort in and around Tretower, Brecknockshire. National Library of Wales, Badminton estate map volume 3, fols 68v...
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  • younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Llewellyn was born in Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, the younger son of Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Bt. (d. 1999), an Olympic...
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    Glanusk Park (category History of Brecknockshire)
    Sir Joseph Bailey in 1899 who at that time was the Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. The park and estate contains 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of common land...
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  • Mid Glamorgan Powys South Glamorgan West Glamorgan former Anglesey Brecknockshire Caernarvonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire...
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    52.00847; -3.0855 Geography Black Mountain Herefordshire, England / Brecknockshire, Wales Parent range Black Mountains OS grid SO255350 Topo map OS Landranger...
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    to 8,250 at the 2011 census. Historically it was the county town of Brecknockshire (Breconshire); although its role as such was eclipsed with the formation...
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  • This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Brecknockshire. Sir William Vaughan c. 1544 Sir Roger Vaughan bef. 1558–1571 Richard Price...
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    Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire County councils (Wales) Anglesey Brecknockshire Carnarvonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire...
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    Snowdonia. It is the highest point (county top) of the historic county of Brecknockshire (though in modern administrative terms, it now lies within the unitary...
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    Minimum number of hours of sunshine in a month: 2.7 hours at Llwynon, Brecknockshire in January 1962. Maximum rainfall in a day (0900 UTC – 0900 UTC): 211...
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  • born at Newton by Usk in the Llansantffraed (St. Bridget's) parish of Brecknockshire, the eldest known child of Thomas Vaughan (c. 1586–1658) of Tretower...
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