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LLANLLUGAN, a parish in Newtown district, Montgomery; on the river Rhiw, 4 miles SW of Llanfair, and 7½ NW of Newtown r. station. Post town LlanfairCaereinion, under Welshpool. Acres, 3,945. Real property, £1,530. Pop., 304. Houses, 57. The property is divided among a few. A Cistertian nunnery was founded here in 1239; was given, at the dissolution, to the D'Arcys; and has left no traces. Much of the parish is upland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £60. Patron, the Lord of the Manor. The church is early English, and was recently in disrepair.
(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: | Llanllugan CP/AP Newtown and Llanidloes RegD/PLU Montgomeryshire AncC |
Place: | Llanllugan |
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