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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LLANSAINTFFRAED, a parish in the district and county of Brecon; on the river Usk, the Brecon canal, and the Via Julia montana, 7 miles SE of Brecon r. station. It contains the village of Skethiog, and its posttown is Brecon. Acres, 2,247. Real property, £2,248; of which £40 are in fisheries. Pop., 255. Houses, 44. The manor belonged to the Princes of Powis. Buckland was formerly the seat of the Jones family; is now the seat of J. P. Holford, Esq.; and stands in a remarkably beautiful situation. Skethiog House and Noyadd also are chief residences. Newton, now a farm-house, was the seat of the Vaughans, one of whom was the author of "Olor Iscanus, ''while another was rector of the parish and a chemist. An inscribed stone, called the Victorinus Stone, stands by the side of a public road. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £295. * Patron, T. Watkins, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Fread or St. Bride; is a lowly building, humiliated by a grand tomb to Col. G. Holford; and contains monuments of the Vaughans. Charities, £6. The name Llansaintffraed is equivalent to the English and Scotch Bridekirk, and to the Scotch Kilbride.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Brecknockshire AncC |
| Place: | Llansanffraid |
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