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TALGARTH , a decayed See also:market See also:town in See also:Breconshire, See also:South See also:Wales, situated on the Ennig near its junction with the Llynfi (a tributary of the Wye), with a station on the See also:joint See also:line of the See also:Cambrian and Midland companies from See also:Brecon to Three Cocks Junction (22 M. N.N.E., but in Talgarth See also:parish). The See also:population of the whole parish (which See also:measures 12,294 acres) was 1466 in 1901. The 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 Gwendoline, restored in 1873, is in Perpendicular See also:style, with an embattled See also:tower restored in 1898. The See also:Baptists, Congregationalists and Calvinistic Methodists have each a See also:chapel in the town, and there is also a Congregational church at Tredwestan, founded in 1662. About 1 m. S.W. is Trevecca, where See also:Rowel See also:Harris, one of the founders of Welsh See also:Methodism, was See also:born in 1713, and where in 1752 he established a communistic religious " See also:family " of about a See also:hundred persons; their representatives in 1842 handed over the See also:property to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist connexion, who in that See also:year opened there a theological See also:college, and in 1874 added to it a Harris memorial chapel. In r906 the college was removed
to See also:Aberystwyth, and the buildings are now used by the Connexion as a preparatory school for ministerial students.
The fortified station of Dinas occupies the See also:summit of a 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 about 22 M. S.E. of Talgarth, and commands the See also:mountain pass to See also:Crickhowell and the eastern See also:part of the vale of See also:Usk. Its See also:castle, built on the site of an earlier See also:British fortress, was destroyed (according to See also:Leland) by the inhabitants to prevent its falling into the hands of See also:Glendower. The town was in the See also:manor of See also:English Talgarth, there being also a manor of Welsh Talgarth, in which Welsh See also:laws prevailed.
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