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PRESTEIGN , a See also:market See also:town, See also:urban See also:district, and See also:assize and See also:county town of See also:Radnorshire, See also:Wales, situated on the See also:Lug amidst beautiful scenery. Pop. (1901), 1245. Presteign is the See also:terminus of a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western railway See also:running See also:north from Titley Junction in See also:Herefordshire. The old-fashioned town contains the See also:fine See also:parish 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 of St See also:Andrew, dating chiefly from the 15th See also:century, and an interesting old See also:inn, the " See also:Radnor-See also:shire Arms," once the See also:residence of the See also:Bradshaw See also:family in the 17th century. To the See also:west rises the Wardon, a wooded See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill laid out as a public See also:park. Presteign is the most easterly spot on the Welsh border, a circumstance that is noted in the Cymric expression to See also:mark the extreme breadth of the Principality—o Tyddewi i Llanandras (" from St Davids to Presteign ").
Although the Welsh name of Llanandras is said to denote a See also:foundation by St Andras ap Rhun ap Brychan in the 5th century, the See also:place seems to have been an obscure See also:hamlet in the lordship of Moelynaidd until the 14th century, when See also:Bishop See also:David See also:Martyn of St Davids (1290–1328) conferred valuable market privileges upon this his native place, which on doubtful authority is said to derive its See also:English name from this See also:priest. In 1J42 Presteign was named as the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-place of the county sessions for Radnorshire in See also:conjunction with New Radnor, and it has ever since ranked as the county town. Although an See also:ancient 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 by See also:prescription, Presteign was not included in the Radnor See also:parliamentary district until the 19th century, and of this See also:privilege it was deprived by the Redistribution See also:Act of 1885.
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