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Encyclopedia Britannica



PRESTEIGN

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 304 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PRESTEIGN , a market town, urban
district
 , and
assize
  and county town of Radnorshire, Wales, situated on the Lug amidst beautiful scenery. Pop. (1901), 1245. Presteign is the terminus of a branch of the
Great
  Western railway running north from Titley Junction in Herefordshire. The old-fashioned town contains the fine parish
church
  of St Andrew, dating chiefly from the 15th century, and an interesting old inn, the " Radnor-shire Arms," once the residence of the Bradshaw family in the 17th century. To the west rises the Wardon, a wooded hill laid out as a public park. Presteign is the most easterly spot on the Welsh border, a circumstance that is noted in the Cymric expression to mark the extreme breadth of the Principalityo Tyddewi i Llanandras (" from St Davids to Presteign ").
Although the Welsh name of Llanandras is said to denote a foundation by St Andras ap Rhun ap Brychan in the 5th century, the place seems to have been an obscure hamlet in the lordship of Moelynaidd until the 14th century, when
Bishop
 
David
  Martyn of St Davids (12901328) conferred valuable market privileges upon this his native place, which on doubtful authority is said to derive its English name from this priest. In 1J42 Presteign was named as the
meeting
 -place of the county sessions for Radnorshire in conjunction with New Radnor, and it has ever since ranked as the county town. Although an ancient borough by
prescription
 , Presteign was not included in the Radnor parliamentary
district
  until the 19th century, and of this privilege it was deprived by the Redistribution Act of 1885.


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