Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rhyd Y Bryw like this:

RHIDYBRIW, or Ysclydach, a chapelry in Llywell parish, Brecon; on the river Usk, and on the Brecon and Llandovery railway, 2½ miles E of Trecastle. Post-town, Trecastle, under Brecon. Rated property, £1, 652. Pop., 303. Houses, 64. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £145. Patron, the Vicar of Llywell. The church is good.

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Travel writing

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