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LLANFIHANGEL CWMDU - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"LLANFIHANGEL CWMDU, a parish in the hundred of Crickhowell, county Brecon, 4 miles N.W. of Crickhowell, its post town, and 7 S.E. of Brecknock. It is situated at the base of the Black mountains, and is watered by a tributary of the river Usk. The Roman road Via Julia Montana passed through the parish, which includes the townships of Blayney, Cenol, Cilwych, and Tretower. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. David's, value £340. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a modern structure (1830), occupying the spot on which the ancient one stood. There is also a district church at Tretower, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £64. Here are traces of British and Roman camps; also coins and other relics, testifying to Roman occupation, have been found. Penniyarth is the principal residence."

"BLAYNEY, (or Blaenau), a parcel of the parish of Llanfihangel-Cwmdu, hundred of Crickhowell, in the county of Brecknock, South Wales, 5 miles to the N. of Crickhowell. It is situated at the foot of the Black Mountains."

"CENOL, a parcel in the parish of Llanfihangel-cwmdu, in the hundred of Crickhowell, in the county of Brecon, 5 miles N.W. of Crickhowell. It is situated on the Roman road Via Julia, near the river Rhiangol."

"CILWYCH, a parcel in the parish of Llanfihangel cwmdu, in the hundred of Crickhowell, in the county of Brecon, 5 miles N.W. of Crickhowell."

"PENMYARTH, a hamlet in the parish of Llanfihangel Cwmdu, county Brecon, 3 miles W. of Crickhowell. It is situated on the Rhiangoll, a branch of the Usk, here crossed by a three-arched bridge, and near the line of the Roman road Via Julia. The church, which was built by the late Sir J. Bailey as a family mausoleum, stands on the bank of the river, just above the bridge. The principal seat is Glanusk Park, a modern Elizabethan mansion belonging to the Bailey family, and surrounded by a park."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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