Place:


Llwydiarth  Montgomeryshire

 

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

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.

Llwydiarth through time

Llwydiarth is now part of Powys district. Click here for graphs and data of how Powys has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Llwydiarth itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Llwydiarth, in Powys and Montgomeryshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22930

Date accessed: 18th June 2024


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