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LLANWRTYD WELLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 831 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WELLS , an See also:urban See also:district of See also:Breconshire, See also:south See also:Wales, with a station on the central Wales See also:section of the See also:London & See also:North Western railway, 231 M. from London. It is situated in the midst of See also:wild See also:mountain scenery on the See also:river Irfon, a right-See also:bank tributary of the Wye. The See also:place is chiefly noted for its See also:sulphur and chalybeate springs, the former being the strongest of the See also:kind in Wales. The medicinal properties of the sulphur See also:water were discovered, or perhaps rediscovered, in 1732 by a famous Welsh writer, the Rev. See also:Theophilus See also:Evans, then See also:vicar of Llangammarch (to which living Llanwrtyd was a chapelry till 1871). Saline water is obtained daily in the See also:season from See also:Builth Wells. The Irfon is celebrated as a See also:trout-stream. Out of the See also:civil See also:parish, which has an See also:area of 10,785 acres and had in See also:tool a See also:population of 8J4, there was formed in 1907 the urban district, comprising 1611 acres, and with an estimated population at the date of formation of 812. Welsh is the pre-dominant See also:language of the district. Four See also:miles See also:lower down the Irfon valley, at the junction of the Cammarch and Irfon, and with a station on the London & North Western railway, is the See also:village of Llangammarch, noted for its See also:barium springs. The See also:ancient parish of Llangammarch consists of the townships of Penbuallt and Treflis, the wells being in the former, which comprises 11,152 acres and hadin 1901 a population of only 433. See also:John See also:Penry, the Puritan See also:martyr, was See also:born at Cefn-brith in this parish.

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Charles See also:Wesley's wife, Sarah Gwynne, was of See also:Garth, an old See also:residence just outside the parish.

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