Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLWYDIARTH

LLWYDIARTH, a township in Llanfihangel parish, and a chapelry partly also in Llangadfan parish, Montgomery. The township lies on the river Bechan, 6½ miles S W by W of Llanfyllin r. station; and has a postoffice under Oswestry. Pop., 151. Houses, 25. Llwydiarth Park is the seat of the Lloyd family; and has, in its grounds, a famous rocking-stone, locally called Arthur's Quoit.—The chapelry was constituted in 1859. Pop., 322. Houses, 61. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, not reported. Patron, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Montgomeryshire AncC
Place: Llwydiarth

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