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See also:NEWTOWN (Welsh Drefnewydd, with the same meaning, formerly Llanfair Cedewain) , a See also:market See also:town and contributory See also:parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Montgomeryshire, situated on both sides of the See also:Severn, and on the See also:Cambrian railway, 195 M. from See also:London. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district of Newtown and Llanllwchhaiarn (Igor) 65oo. It is connected with See also:Shrewsbury (Amwythig) by the Montgomeryshire See also:canal. The old See also:Anglican See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, partly Decorated and partly Perpendicular, has been superseded by the See also:modern St See also:Mary's, which contains the See also:font and See also:rood-See also:screen of the old See also:building. In the old See also:churchyard lies See also:Robert See also:Owen, See also:born in 1771 at Newtown, where he died in 1858, known as " the See also:patriarch of See also:reason," author of New Views of Society, &c., and one of the fathers of See also:communism. Newtown, rather than See also:Welshpool, is the See also:chief seat of Welsh See also:flannel manufacture, together with that of tweeds and shawls. It joins with Welshpool, Llanfyllin, See also:Montgomery (Trefaldwyn), Llanidloes and Machynlleth, in returning a member to See also:parliament.
End of Article: NEWTOWN (Welsh Drefnewydd, with the same meaning, formerly Llanfair Cedewain)
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