A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CLYDACH, a rivulet and a hamlet on the south-east border of Brecon. The rivulet rises on the Mynydd-Llangynidr mountain; and runs 3 miles south-south-eastward, and 4½ east-north-eastward, to the Usk, near the boundary with Monmouth. Its valley is narrow, rocky, and highly picturesque; is crossed, near the mouth, by an aqueduct of the Brecon and Newport canal, 80 feet high; and teems, for a long way, with industry in the mining of coal, the quarrying of limestone, and the working of iron. The hamlet stands on the rivulet, near its influx to the Usk, 4½ miles W by S of Abergavenny; and has a station on the Merthyr and Abergavenny railway, and a post office‡ under Abergavenny.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a rivulet" (ADL Feature Type: "streams") |
| Administrative units: | Brecknockshire AncC |
| Place: | Clydach |
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