Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Meifod (or Myfod)

Meifod (or Myfod), par. and vil., Montgomeryshire, on river Vyrnwy, 5½ miles NE. of Llanfair, 12,614 ac., pop. 1583; P.O.; was formerly the archdeaconry of Powisland, and the burial-place of its princes; in vicinity of vil. are several mineral springs.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Meifod AP/CP       Montgomeryshire AncC
Place names: MEIFOD     |     MEIFOD OR MYFOD     |     MYFOD
Place: Meifod

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