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LLANAR'TH, a town of South Wales, in the county 
■of Cardigan ; with a weekly market on Tuefday, and 826 
inhabitants : fifteen miles weft of Llanbeder, and 212 weft 
of London. Lat. 52. 14. N. Ion. 4. ig. W. 
LLAN'AVAN VAW'R, a town of South Wales, in 
Brecknockfhire, with 633 inhabitants: three miles north- 
weft of Builth. 
LLAN'B ADRIG, a town of North Wales, in the ifland 
of Anglefea, containing 957 inhabitants : four miles weft 
of Amlwch. 
LLAN'BADARN VAW'R, a market-town and parifii 
in Cardiganshire, Wales. This place is luppofed to have 
been anciently called Mauritania ; and to have changed its 
name in the fixth century, in memory of St. Paternus, 
who built a monaftery here, which was afterwards confti- 
tuted an epifcopal fee. This dignity it retained till the 
inhabitants, quarrelling with the bifhop, murdered him j 
when it was united to the fee of St. David’s. The go¬ 
vernment of the town is vetted in a portreeve. It has a 
fmall harbour; but the little trade it formerly pcffeffed 
has of late years been transferred to Aberyflwith, which 
is only two miles diftant, to the weft. The (Tuefday) 
market for meat is now likewife held at the fame place; 
fo that this town is much declined. The ancient church, 
built in the form of a crofs, and furmounted by a mafiive 
fquare tower, is a large edifice, in an early ftyle of archi- 
tefture. It is remarkable as having been the feat of one 
of the oldeft bifhoprics in Wales. The interior contains 
a few modern monuments, one of which was raifed to the 
memory of Lewis Morris, the celebrated author of the 
Celtic Remains. In the church-yard is an ancient crofs, 
finely decorated wdth fret-work. The parifii is very ex- 
tenfive, and contains a number of hamlets, of which 
Aberyftwith is the largeft and moft populous. The wafte 
lands, or commons, may be about 8000 acres. Several 
old Britifii forts and tumuli can eafily be traced it) differ¬ 
ent parts of it. In a vale, called Dyfryn-caftell, is a cir¬ 
cle of ftones, which tradition informs us was a druidical 
temple and court of judicature. The town and parifii 
■were entirely laid wafte by the Danes in the year 988. 
The town was foon rebuilt ; but in little more than thirty 
years after again fuffered a fimilar fate, being burnt to the 
ground by Gruffydd al Llywellin, during liis conteft for 
the lovereignty of this diftrift with Howel ap Edwin. It 
is 197 miles weft of London. 
LLANBE'DER, commonly called Lampeter,ana by fome 
Llanbeder - Pont-Stephen, as fuppofed, from a bridge, accord¬ 
ing to tradition, built by king Stephen over one of his 
principal trenches when he encamped in this neighbour¬ 
hood, (which feems to be probable, as there are fome 
trenches and lines remaining to this day;) a market and 
poft-town in Cardiganfiiire, South Wales, twenty-four 
miles north-by-eaft from Cardigan, and 197 weft-fouth- 
weft of London. It is fituate in a pleafant fertile vale, 
nearly on the banks of the river Tivy, which abounds 
with trout and other excellent fifii. The river Tivy, be¬ 
tween Newcaftle-Emlin and Cardigan, is famous for the 
belt falinon in the kingdom. The market is on Saturday, 
and affords an ample fupply of corn and grain, as likewife 
butter, cheefe, poultry, butcher’s meat, Sec. and the mar¬ 
kets from the 12th of May to the 10th of July are for 
cows and calves, ewes, lambs. Sec. Here are eight fairs in 
the year, viz. the firft Wednefday after Whitfuntide, July 
10, firft Saturday in Auguft old ttile, 27th of Augull, firft 
Saturday in September old ftile, 26th of September, 19th 
of Oftober, and the firft Saturday in November old ftile. 
The two firft are generally the largeft, being for horfes, 
horned cattle, flseep, pedlery, &c. and the following days 
ftore pigs ; the other fix fairs exhibit the fame commodi¬ 
ties, fiieep only excepted. 
The chief magiftrates are a portreeve, bailiff, town-clerk, 
two conftables, and all thofe who have paffed the chair 
(having ferved the office of portreeve) are aldermen by pre¬ 
scription ; which chief magiltrates infpeft and regulate 
the fairs and markets; and Cardigan, Lampeter, and 
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Aberyftwith, are equally concerned in chaofing a mem¬ 
ber, the three towns being contributory boroughs, and, 
together, fend one reprefentative to parliament. Lat. 52. 
11. N. Ion. 4. 6. W. 
LLANBE'DER, a river of South Wales, which runs 
into the Artro near the town of Llanbeder. 
LLANDAFF', [a corruption of the Britiffi words Llan- 
ar-ddf, i. e. the Church on the Banks of the Taff, or 
Tave, as the walls of the church-yard are in part walhed 
by a branch of that river.] A very ancient city in Gla- 
morganfiiire,, South Wales, though at prefent it has not 
even a market; but only two fairs annually, viz. one on 
the 9th of February, and the other on Whit Monday, 
which is noted for a fine (how of cattle, horfes, fiieep, See. 
Sc c. It carries on a good trade, as it has a very good har¬ 
bour that opens into the Severn-fea, about four miles 
diftant. a 
Llandaff deferves notice principally on account of its 
cathedral-church, which is laid to have been firft founded 
here foon after the introduction of Chriftianity into Bri¬ 
tain, i. e. A.D. 186. It was not, however, till the begin¬ 
ning of the fixth century, that Llandaff was raifed to the 
dignity of a bilhop’s fee, by Myric king of the Silures, 
who endowed it with all the lands between the rivers Taff 
and Elwy. The original church being deftroyed at the 
time of the conqueft, or at leaft its oldeft part, the pre¬ 
fent was erefted in the year 1120, by bifhop Urban. Its 
fituation is truly monaftic, in a bottom furrounded by 
rifing ground. According to Grofe, it meafures in length, 
from eaft to weft, 263^ feet. The breadth of the body is 
65 feet, and the height from the floor to the centre of the 
roof 119 feet. The weft front is a beautiful relic of the 
Norman and pointed ftyles of architecture united. At 
the corners of this front formerly rofe two magnificent 
towers, one of which is now nearly deftroyed ; that on 
the north-weft, (till remaining entire, is embellifhed with 
a profulion of fculpture; the entrance on this fide is un¬ 
der a femi-circular arch, over which are three windows, 
with lancet-fhaped arches. The interior contains feveral 
monuments of the bifhops ; alfo, one in honour of the 
lady Godiva, the celebrated patronefs of the men of Co¬ 
ventry. A full defeription of this church, with views and 
details, will be found in Cooper’s Architectural Reliques. 
Nothing can exceed the abfurd and fantaftical appearance 
of this edifice, when viewed as a whole. Beneath the 
towers has been ingrafted an Italian futnmer-houfe with 
a Venetian window, alfo piiafters and flower-pot jars upon 
the parapet. The ecclefiaftical eftablifhment of this fee 
confifts of a bifhop, a dean, an archdeacon, a fub-dean, a 
chancellor, precentor, and nine prebendaries. The choral 
fervice has long been difeontinued; and the cathedral 
ufed as the parifh-church : it has no organ. The petty 
feflions for the hundred of Kibbor are liolden at Llandaff. 
The bifhop lias no palace here, nor are there any efta- 
bliftied houfes for other members of the church. The 
diocefe contains about three-fourths of the county of Gla¬ 
morgan, and all Monmouthfhire except feven parifhes. A 
gateway and a ruined tower, which- formerly contained 
the great bell called Peter, now at Exeter, are the only 
remains of the bifhop’s palace. It is two miles north of 
Cardiff, and 166 weft of London* Lat. 51,23. N. Ion. 
3.8.W. 
LLANDAFF', a townfhip of United America, in Gffaf- 
ton county, New Hampfhire; incorporated in 1774. 
LLANDE'GLA, a frnall town in Denbighfhire, North 
WaleSjfeven miles weft of Wrexham; with fairs,March 11, 
April 25, June 23, Aug. 4, and Oft. 26. 
LLAN'DERFEL, a town in Merionethfhire, North 
Wales; with a fair on Auguft 17. 
LLANDEW'Y, a town in Pembrokefhire, North Wales, 
fourteen miles north-eaft of Pembroke ; with a fair on 
March 14. 
LLANDIBE'A, a town in Carmarthenfhire, South 
Wales, with a fair on Whit-Wednefday. 
LLANDIL'O, a market-town in fcarmartbenfhire, 
South 
