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    Until 1974, Brecknockshire (Welsh: Brycheiniog or Sir Frycheiniog), also formerly known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and Brecknockshire. Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire, and part of historic...
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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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    Cendl) is a community and village located in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the preserved county of Gwent. It currently lies on...
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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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  • 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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    Brychan Brycheiniog was a legendary 5th-century king of Brycheiniog (Brecknockshire, alternatively Breconshire) in Mid Wales. Brychan had Irish ancestry...
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    Independents), which is particularly important in Carmarthenshire and Brecknockshire. The London Missionary Society was effectively the world mission arm...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Monmouthshire and much of Flintshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Ultimately, this amounted...
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    This resulted in the creation of five new counties (Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire) from the Marches of...
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    spa village of Llangammarch Wells. It is in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire). John Penry, Wales's most famous Protestant martyr, was...
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    Montgomeryshire Rifles; disbanded in 1908 1st Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers – renamed 1st (Brecknockshire) Volunteer Battalion in 1885 1st Monmouthshire...
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  • Only Two Can Play (1962). Davies was born in the town of Brynmawr, Brecknockshire, South Wales, in 1906. He moved to Essex where he became a policeman...
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  • colonel in the Grenadier Guards and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. When Shân Bailey's father died in 1948, she and her mother inherited...
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    bounded to the north by Ceredigion, to the east by Powys (historic county Brecknockshire), Neath Port Talbot (historic county Glamorgan) and Swansea (also Glamorgan)...
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    Hay-on-Wye (category Brecknockshire)
    market town and community in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Brecknockshire. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as a "town of books";...
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    Member of Parliament representing Reading, Berkshire (1572–1589), Brecknockshire (1589–1604), Abingdon, Oxfordshire (1604, 1624–1625) and finally Berkshire...
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    Philipson. The Woosnam family were landed gentry, of Cefnllysgwynne, Brecknockshire, Wales, originally of Montgomeryshire. Woosnam spent most of his childhood...
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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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  • known not known Held one day's racing in September Brecknock Racecourse Brecknockshire Wales not known not known A course near the town, with a 'commodious'...
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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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    Mid Glamorgan Powys South Glamorgan West Glamorgan former Anglesey Brecknockshire Caernarvonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire...
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