A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LLANGENNY, a parochial-chapelry in Crickhowell district, Brecon; at the influx of the Grwyney to the Usk, 1½ mile SE of Crickhowell, and 4 NW of Beaufort r. station. Post town, Crickhowell. Acres, 2,7 83. Real property, £3,269. Pop., 470. Houses, 104. Cwrt-y-Gollen I a chief residence. Paper-making and iron-founding are carried on. A meini-hirion, 13 feet high, is near Cwrt y-Gollen. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llangattock, in the diocese of St. David's. The church was dedicated to St. Ceneu or Keyne, and there is a well whose waters have the same kind of popular repute as those of St. Keyne's well in Cornwall. A bell, supposed to have belonged to St. Ceneu's oratory, was found near the well in 1809.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parochial-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Crickhowel RegD/PLU Brecknockshire AncC |
| Place: | Llangenni |
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