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South Wales, pleafantly feated on the fide of a hill, at 
the foot of which runs the river Towy, with a bone bridge 
over it. It has the firb manufaftory for flannel in North 
Wales. It is diftant from London 201 miles web-north- 
weft, and from Caermarthen feventeen north-ea(l ; has a 
market on Saturday, well fupplied with belli, fowl, &c. 
and the town well fupplied with falmon, eels, trout, &c. 
from the river Towy ; and feven fairs in tile year, viz. 
February 20, Palm Monday, May 12, June 21, Auguit 
23, November 12, and on Monday before Chriihnas. 
This town, being feated on an eminence, commands a 
delightful profpeft of the rich vale of Towy, bordered 
on each fide with (loping hills, which terminate in barren 
rocky mountains, and afford a ftriking contraft with the 
fertile vale below. 
On an eminence about one mile diftant from the town 
to the fouth-weft (lands the pifturefque ruins of Dinevor, 
or Dinas-fawr, caftle, which commands fome of the fined 
and mod romantic views of the fcenery of Newton-park, 
and the extenfive vale of Tyvvi. This caftle was built by 
Rhys ap Theodore, in the reign of William the Con¬ 
queror; it feems to have been originally of a circular 
form, and drongly fortified by a double moat and ram¬ 
part ; it was for fome time the refidence of the princes of 
South Wales. South from it are the ruins of Cappel-yr-Ywn, 
danding between two round towers: this was formerly 
r chapel of eafe to the mother-church. At fome diitance 
to the weftward is Grongar-hill, which has been immor¬ 
talized by the mufe of Dyer. At a (hort didance, on a 
rugged hill, dand the mouldering fragments of Druilwyn- 
caltfe. About four miles fouth-ead of the town are the 
picturefque ruins of Craig-Cenen-Cojlell, i. e. the Caftle 
an the Rock by the Cenen. The fituation is (ingularly 
romantic, being feated on an infulated rock, which was 
inaccefiible on all fides but one. It is fuppofed to have 
been erefted by Goronw, lord of Is-Cenen, who was one 
of the knights of king Arthur’s round table. The well 
in this cadle is confidered a fingular curiofity. The farrn- 
h.oufe, called Cwrt Bryn y Beirdd, which lies about a mile 
to the fouth of this cadle, was formerly a celebrated bardifh 
refidence. Here the river Llychvvr takes its rife, iffuing 
with a copious fiream immediately from the folid rock. 
Clofe to this fpring is a cavern, in fome places fo narrow 
as hardly to permit a perfon to pafs through, but in other 
parts extremely fpacious, and exhibiting a variety of 
beautiful petrifaftions. At Llan-de-Faen, which lies to 
the fouth-wed, at the didance of four miles, is a well for¬ 
merly confidered as very efficacious in paralytic and fcor- 
liutic affections. According to the hidory of Wales, by 
Carradoc of Llancarvan, the lad decilive battle between 
the forces of Edward I. and Llewellin, prince of Wales, 
was fought in this neighbourhood. The victory remained 
with the Englifti, and put a final period to the independ¬ 
ence of Wales. 
LLANDOVERY, or Llan ym Ddyfri, a market- 
town, in Caermarthenfhire, South Wales, fituated on the 
river Brane, near its junction with the Towy. It con- 
fids of five ltreets, containing, according to Mr. Cariifle, 
about 800 inhabitants. On a mount near the centre of 
the town, and furrounded by a deep trench, are the ruins 
of a fmall cadle, built by Richard de Powers; and it is 
remarkable for the birth and refidence of the celebrated 
Rees Pritchard, (Rhys Prytherch,) well-known through¬ 
out Wales as author of the Vicar’s Book, a collection of 
very fimple poetry. The fcite of this cadle is very re¬ 
markable, being an infulated rock of fome elevation, to¬ 
tally unconnected with any adjacent rilitig ground. A 
handfome (tone-bridge is here thrown acrofs the river 
Brane. The church bands on an eminence at one end of 
the town. The market is held on Friday every week ; 
and, confidering the extent of the place, is one of the 
larged and beit-fupplied in Wales. The Britiih Directory 
(upon vvliat authority we know not) afiigns two market- 
days, Wednefday and Saturday, to this fmall place; and 
fix fairs ; July 3.1, Wednefday after Oil. 10, Nov. 26, 
Vcl. XII. No. 876. 
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Wednefday after Epiphany, Wednefday after Lent-Sun- 
day, and Whit-Tuefday. 
Llandovery is undoubtedly a town of confiderahle an¬ 
tiquity : it rofe upon the ruins of a Roman (tation, which 
was at or near Llan-Fair-ar-y-Brynn, about half a mile 
didant. That thefe celebrated conquerors had a fixed re¬ 
fidence there, is fufficiently clear from the number of Ro¬ 
man bricks, earthen pots, coins, and other remains of an¬ 
tiquity, which have been difcovered on that fpot. This 
town „was formerly a contributary borough to Caermar¬ 
then, but the privilege has been led for a considerable 
period. It dill, however, retains its charter, by virtue of 
which a bailiff is annually elected, as are likewiie a re¬ 
corder, a town-clerk, aldermen, and ferjeants at mace ; 
but their offices at prefent feem to be little more than no¬ 
minal. The county-magiltrates hold here the petty (ef- 
fions for the upper divilion of the hundred of Penfedd. 
It poffeffes no lefs than five benefit-(ocieties, three for 
men and two for women. 
The neighbourhood of Llandovery is dibinguifhed by 
a mod enchanting difplay of the more placid.deferiptiou 
of mountain-feenery. The pafs of Cwm-Dwr, which 
winds round the Black Mountain to the eaft, is peculi¬ 
arly fine. On a part of this mountain the decayed town, 
of Trecadle is fituated ; but it contains nothing worthy 
of attention, except the remains of a cable ereCted by 
Bernard de Newmarch in the reign of William Rufus". 
On the fummit of the Gaer-hill is a Roman encampment,, 
part of the fortifications of which are dill tolerably en¬ 
tire; and on Pen-y-Craig an oval one, with three foffas 
and two valiums, fuppofed to be of Britifh conltruetion. 
A monumental done, about fix feet high, called Maen-y- 
Morynnion, is placed on an old Roman caufeway which 
joins the road to Brecknock. It l'eems to have been 
richly fculptured. 
LLANDRINDOD 7 , or Trinity-Church, a village of 
South Wales, in Radnorfiiire ; near which are medicinal 
fprings, much frequented: eight miles welt of New Rad¬ 
nor. 
LI.ANDWNOG', a town in Caermarthenfliire, South 
Wales; with a fair on Monday before Whit-Sunday. 
LLANED'WEN, a village in the ifland of Anglefey, 
North Wales, about five miles to the north-ead of New- 
borough, is didinguiftied as the birth-place cf Henry 
Rowland, bibiop of Bangor, and author of the Mona An- 
tiqua Rejiorata, who died in 1723. Almod dole to the 
village is the ferry of Moel-y-Don, by which Agricola 
eroded over into the ifland of Anglefey, and where the 
army of Edward I. fuftained a fi'gnal defeat in 1282. The 
field of Maes-mawr-gad, or the plain of the great army, 
has been fuppofed by fome to be the feene of the firlt fan- 
guinary battle recorded by Tacitus as fought in this 
country; and by others to allude to an engagement be¬ 
tween Gryffydd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd, and the 
ufurper Trahaiarn ap Caradog, which took place in 1082. 
Plas-Newydd, a feat of the earl of Uxbridge, is fituated 
clofe to the north bank of the Menai, and occupies a- 
portion of thofe groves, once fo celebrated as embower¬ 
ing the principal temples of the ancient Druids. Here, 
and for feveral miles round, appear numerous memorials 
of the religious rites praCtifed during the prevalence of 
that extraordinary worfiiip. Near the manfion of Piss- 
Newydd is a large, cromlech, with another of fmaller di- 
menfions clofe to it. Particular accounts of theie, with 
an engraving, are contained in King’s Munimenta An- 
tiqua. Near a pathway leading into the road from Plas- 
Newydd to Llanidan is a large carnedd, which was opened 
about fevemy years ago, and found to contain a vault 
brewed with an immenfe quantity of human bones. This 
is conjectured to have had a fubterraneous connection 
with the cromlech, and to have.formed a place of con¬ 
finement for the wretched viflims deftined to be (acrificed. 
At Tan-ben-Ceven, on the river Brient, are two laro-e 
entrenchments of a fquare form, generally regarded a* 
outworks to the chief feat of the arch-dfuid at Tre't 
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