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GLASBURY - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
The parochial charities are considerable. The Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyan Methodists have chapels, and there is a National school, built in the last century by Miss Bridget Hughes. The oldest seats now standing are Tregoyd, of Viscount Hereford, built temp. Elizabeth, by William Watkins, whose heiress was married by Pryce Devereux, of Montgomery; Gwernyvet, purchased in 1600 by the Williams family, now represented by General Wood, of Littleton; Glasbury House, of Mrs. Papendick, representative of the Hugheses of Denbighshire; and Maeslwch, of the De Wintons. Two lines of railway are now (1864) approaching completion, which will connect this parish on the one hand with London, via Hereford, and on the other with North Wales.
"ABERLLUNVEY, (Aberllynfi), a parish in the hundred of Talgarth, and union of Hay, in the county of Brecon, South Wales, 4 miles S.W. of Hay. It is situated at the confluence of the Llunvey and the Wye. The parish is united with Glasbury, and is commonly considered a hamlet or chapelry thereto. There is no church. The inhabitants marry and bury at Glasbury, but they pay no church-rates. No tithes have been paid here within the memory of man. An old yew-tree tells where once a church stood, and persons lately living could recollect tombstones. The ground is now covered with fir-trees. Aberllunvey is on the south bank of the Wye, and in the midst of scenery beautiful and diversified."
"PIPTON, a hamlet in the parish of Glasbury, hundred of Talgarth, county Brecknock, 4 miles S.W. of Hay."
"THREE-COCKS, a junction station on the Mid-Wales railway, in the parish of Aberllynfi, county Brecon, south Wales."
"TREGO YD, a hamlet in the parish of Glasbury, hundred of Talgarth, county Brecon, 3 miles S.W. of Hay. Tregoyd is the seat of Viscount Hereford."
"VELINDRE, a hamlet in the parish of Glasbury, hundred of Talgarth, county Brecon, 4 miles S.W. of Hay, near Tregoed."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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