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■vho firft tranflated the bible into Welfh, was vicar htre, 

 till tranflated to the fee of Llandaff, by queen Elizabeth in 

 the year i ^qj;. The buildings of the village are ancient 

 and irregular. The redlory is a finccure in the patronage 

 of the bilhop of St. Afaph. According to the parliamen- 

 tary returns for 1801, the whole parith contained a popula- 

 tion of 1 869 perfons. 



LLANRWST, a raarket-town and parifli, fituated in 

 the wellern extremity of the hiuidred of LTv/ch Dulas, and 

 county of Denbigh, North Wales. The town is watered 

 by the river Conwy, over which, at this place, is a noble 

 bridge of three arches, built by the celebrated Inigo Jones 

 in the year j6^6. Tlie market is on Tuefdays, and there 

 are four fairs during the vear. Here are held the petty 

 feffions for the Uiindred. Mr. Burke calls this " the moft 

 charmin!T fpot in Wales.'' In the town is a good market- 

 hall, and a richly endowed free-fchool. A fmall trade is 

 carried on in harp-making, and it is the centre of all the 

 bufinefs of the populous vale in which it (lands. The 

 church is fuppofed to have been built in 570, and is dedi- 

 cated to St. Grwft, who was a bifliop of London about the 

 year 360. In this church is fome curious carved work, 

 faid to have been brought from the neighbouring abbey of 

 Maenan. Adjoining to it ftands a chapel, ereited by fir 

 Richard Wynne, after a defign by the architeft already 

 meij.ioned. Here are a few monuments in honour of the 

 Wynne family, which deferve the attention of the curious. 

 They are braflea. each containing, befides the infcription, 

 a portraiture of the perfon to whofe memory they were en- 

 graved. An ancient monument of Howel Coytmor has 

 been lately removed from the church to this place. Near 

 it is a large ftone cofSn, liippofed to be that of prince Lle- 

 welyn ap Jerwerth, who was denominated Llewelyn the 

 Great. The high road from Shroplhire to Holyhead pafles 

 through the town. In the neighbourhood Hands Gwydw- 

 houfe, an ancient manfion, confifting of an extenfive pile 

 of buildings, of irregular appearance, but fufficient to de- 

 iiote the great opulence and fplendour of its former pof- 

 feflbrs. Immediately behind the honle the ground rifes 

 rapidly to the foot of the perpendicular clitts which form 

 the weftern boundary of the valley. All this fpace is now 

 covered with fine plantations of different kinds of trees. 

 Half way up the rock, on an irregular plain of nearly five 

 acres in extent, are the remains of a terrace, and a handfome 

 domeltic chapel, in the pointed ftyle of architedure. Abeut 

 a mile from the town, at the hamlet of Mayne, is a ipring 

 in high repute for its medicinal virtues. Five miles to the 

 fouth-eaft lies tire ancient nunnery of Gwythwin, where 

 St. Winefrid is faid to have been buried. The box which 

 contained the relics of this faint is Hill pointed out to 

 ftrangcrs, but her chapel on the fouth-fide is totally de- 

 nioliQied. The church-yard contains four upright ftones, 

 one of which is in the fiiape of a prifm, and bears an in- 

 fcription now illegible. North of Llanrwft, at the dif- 

 tance of three miles, the abbey of Maenan formerly (food. 

 Its fcite is now occupied by a large old houfe, built out 

 of the ruins. The refident population of this parilh, ac- 

 cording to the parliamentary returns of iBoi, amounted 

 to 2549 pe-fons. Seey the Tours, of Pennant, Wyndham, 

 Aikm, Bingley, Skrine, Warner, Evans, and Hutton : all 

 of whom vifited this part of Wales. 



LLANSTEPHAN, a village in the hundred of Derllys, 

 and county of Caermarthen, South Wales," is feated beneath 

 a hill, in a woody vale ; whence the fituation is peculiarly 

 pifturefque and interefting. Here is a well, called St. An- 

 thony's, which formerly was in hiffli ellimatioa for its raedi> 

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cinal virtues ; but it has not been much refortcd to of life 

 years. Here was formerly a callle, which is now in ruins. 

 It is fituated on an eminence, on the weftern fide of the en- 

 trance of the navigable river Tywi, or Towey. Its broken 

 walls enclofe a large area ; and furnifhed with feveral encir- 

 cling earthen ramparts, appear to have poffeffed confider- 

 able ftrength. This caftle is faid to have been built by the 

 fnns of Uchtred, prince of Merionethfhire, A. D. iijS. 

 There is a handfome modern honfc on the hill on which the 

 caitle ftands. The parifli of Llanllephan, which include! 

 the hamlets of Alifton, Laques, and Llau y Bre, contained, 

 according to the return to parliament in 1801, a population 

 of 974 perfon5, inhabiting 205 houfes. Carhfle's Topo- 

 graphical Diftionary of Wales, 4to. 181 1. 



LLANTRISSANT, a borough and market-town in 

 the hundred of Miflcin, and county of Glamorgan, South 

 Wales, is fituated near the fummit of a cleft in one of the 

 high hills which abound in the vale of Glamorgan. The 

 only accefs to it is by a fteep circuitous road. One narrow 

 irregular ftreet, compofcd of poor habitations, makes up 

 nearly the whole of this place. The church is a large Nor- 

 man flrufture. The cemetery affords a very extenfive 

 profpeft. Here vfas an ancient Norman caftle, of which 

 but little now remains, except the fragment of a circular 

 tower ; the veIHgcs of the outworks being nearly concealed 

 by (hrubs. Within the precinils of the caftle are the town- 

 hall and market-houfe, new buildings erefted by the late 

 earl of Bute. The borough is governed by a portreve, and 

 unites with Cardiff, Swanfea, &c. in fending one member 

 to parliament. LlantriiTant is dillant from Llandaff 10 miles, 

 and from London 170: a weekly market is held on Friday, 

 and three fairs annually. In the year 1801, the parifli wa» 

 returned as containing ^y6 houfes, inhabited by 1 7 15 perfons. 

 Barber's Tour in South Wales, 8vo. 



LLANVYLLING, a market-town in the hundred to 

 which it gives name, in the county of Montgomery, North 

 Wales, is fituated in a pleafant valley, near the river Cane, 

 Tj miles from Montgomery, and 186 irom London. The 

 town is neat, and many of the houfes are well built. It 

 was firft incorporated by Llewellyn ap GryfFydd, lord of 

 Mecham and Mochnant, in the reign of Edward I. ; and i» 

 governed by two bailiffs, chofen annually, who arejul^.ices of 

 the peace during the time of office. Many Roman coina 

 have been found here. Four fairs are held annually, and a 

 weekly market on Tuefday. According tu the population 

 report of the year 1801, Llanvylling coTitained 444 houfes, 

 and 1394 inhabitants. Pennant's Tour in Wales, and 

 Skrine's Tour. 



LLANWRTYD Wells, a medicinal fpring of South 

 Wales, in the countv of Brecon ; 12 miles W. of Builth. 



LLANYDLOES, a market-town in the hundred of the 

 fame name, and county of Montgomery, North Wales, is 

 pleafantly fituated near the bank of the river Severn, 1^ 

 miles from Newtovvn»and 180 from London. Several of the 

 ftreets are fpacious, but the buildings are irregular, and 

 chiefly of lath and plafter. The church is a neat edifice, 

 being fupported by fix arches, the pillars of which hav« 

 capitals of palm-leaves, and are faid to have been brought 

 from Cwmber Abbey. About the town arc feveral very ex- 

 tenfive flieep-walks ; and a number of perfons are conlhintly 

 employed in the neighbouring flate quarries. The parifh 

 confifts of the townfliips of Brithdir, .Cil-Machen, Glyun- 

 Hafren-Is-Coed, Manleodd, Morfodiou, TrefSn, and 

 Yflrad Dunod. The petty feffions for the hundred are holden 

 here. Llanydloes was formerly a contributory borough 

 t« Montgomery, but was dijfrauchifed with Pool and Llan- 

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