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LLANDRINDOD, or LLANDRINDOD WELLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LLANDRINDOD, or LLANDRINDOD See also:WELLS , a See also:market See also:town, See also:urban See also:district and See also:health-resort of See also:Radnorshire, See also:Wales, situated in a lofty and exposed district near the See also:river Ithon, a tributary of the Wye. Pop. (rigor) 1827. Llandrindod is a station on the See also:Mid-Wales See also:section of the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway. The town annually receives thousands of visitors, and lies within easy reach of the beautiful Wye Valley and the See also:wild district of See also:Radnor See also:Forest. The saline, See also:sulphur and chalybeate springs of Llandrindod have See also:long been famous. According to a See also:treatise published by a See also:German physician, Dr See also:Wessel See also:Linden, in 1754, the saline springs at Ffynon-llwyn-y-See also:gog (" the well in the cuckoos' See also:grove ") in the See also:present See also:parish of Llandrindod had acquired more than a See also:local reputation as See also:early as the See also:year 1696. In the 18th See also:century both saline and sulphur springs were largely patronized by See also:numbers of visitors, and about 1749 a Mr Grosvenor built a hydropathic See also:establishment near the old See also:church, on a site now covered by a See also:farm-See also:house known as Llandrindod See also:Hall.

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