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CARNO, a river, a village, and a parish in Montgomeryshire. The river rises near the watershed with the Dyfi; and runs 9 miles south-eastward to the Severn, 2¼ miles N of Llandinam. The village stands on the river, adjacent to the Newtown and Macliynlleth railway, 10 miles W by N of Newtown; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Shrewsbury. The parish comprises the townships of Derlwyn, Llysyn, and Trowscoed; and is in the district of Newtown. Acres, 10,982. Real property, £3,168. Pop., 969. Houses, 166. The property is much subdivided. Great part of the surface is mountainous. Remains of a Roman fortress, called Caer-Noddfa, are contiguous to the village; and vestiges of two castles are on a bill above AvonCerniog and on a spur of Allt-Mawr, both within a mile of the village. A battle, decisive of the sovereignty of North Wales, was fought, in 946, at the village; and another, of fierce character, with similar result, was fought, in 1077, on Mynydd-Carn. The living is vicarage in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £95. Patron, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. The church occupies the site of an old one of the Knights of St. John; and was built in 1807. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Calvinistic Methodists, and Wesleyans.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river, a village, and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Carno AP/CP Montgomeryshire AncC |
| Place: | Carno |
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