Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Trefecca

Trefecca, hamlet, Talgarth par., Brecknockshire, 8 miles SW. of Hay; Trefecca House was the residence of Howel Harris (1713-1773), one of the founders of Calvinistic Methodism, and also of the Countess of Huntingdon, who made Tredustan Court, in the vicinity, a college for teachers of the connection.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Talgarth AP/CP       Brecknockshire AncC
Place: Trefecca

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