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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.
TREFECCA, a hamlet in Talgarth parish, Brecon; 8 miles SW of Hay. Real property, £1,466. Pop., 236. Houses, 45. T. House was the residence of Howel Harris, one of the founders of Calvinistic Methodism;. became the residence also of the chief founder of it, the Countess of Huntingdon,-who made Tredustan Court, in its vicinity, a college for teachers of the connexion. The college fell off, almost to extinction; and an effort was made about 1840, to reinstitute it, at a cost of £10,000.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Talgarth AP/CP Brecknockshire AncC |
| Place: | Trefecca |
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