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Encyclopedia Britannica



LLANWRTYD WELLS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 831 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LLANWRTYD WELLS , an urban
district
  of
Breconshire
 ,
south
  Wales, with a station on the central Wales section of the London & North Western railway, 231 M. from London. It is situated in the midst of wild
mountain
  scenery on the river Irfon, a right-bank tributary of the Wye. The place is chiefly noted for its
sulphur
  and chalybeate springs, the former being the strongest of the kind in Wales. The medicinal properties of the
sulphur
  water were discovered, or perhaps rediscovered, in 1732 by a famous Welsh writer, the Rev. Theophilus Evans, then
vicar
  of Llangammarch (to which living Llanwrtyd was a chapelry till 1871). Saline water is obtained daily in the season from
Builth
  Wells. The Irfon is celebrated as a trout-stream. Out of the civil parish, which has an area of 10,785 acres and had in
tool
  a 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 language of the district.
Four miles 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
village
  of Llangammarch, noted for its barium springs. The 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. John Penry, the Puritan
martyr
 , was born at Cefn-brith in this parish. Charles Wesley's wife, Sarah Gwynne, was of Garth, an old residence just outside the parish.


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