Llandrindod Radnorshire Family History Guide
Llandrindod is a parish in the county of Radnorshire, South Wales. Llandrindod is now part of Powys district.
Alternative names: Llandrindod Wells
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Parish registers begin: 1734
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LLANDRINDOD, a parish in the district of Builth and county of Radnor; on the Knighton and Central Wales railway, near the river Ithon, 7 miles N by E of Builth. It has a station on the railway; and its post-town is Penybont, Radnorshire. Acres, 2,689. Real property, £1,568. Pop., 243. Houses, 40.
Much of the surface is wild heathy common. Llandrindod mineral springs here came into local repute, for their medicinal virtues, about the year 1696; began to be visited, by persons from various distances in 1726; rose to such celebrity that lodging-houses and a large hotel were erected in 1749, for the accommodation of visitors; and, though subsequently much damaged in reputation by causes alien to their own merits, are still considerably frequented by such invalids as are in quest of health, apart from appliances of frivolity.
The hotel of 1749 became eventually such a resort of gamblers and other disreputable persons, that it had to be taken down; but two establishments, called the Pumphouse Hotel and the Rock House, still exist for the use of visitors.
The springs are three in number, rising within a few yards of one another, yet differing totally in quality, being severally saline, chalybeate, and sulphureous; and their waters are specially useful in scrofulous and cutaneous diseases.
A lead mine, supposed to have been worked by the Romans, is in the vicinity; and various tumuli and ancient British and Roman entrenchments are within the parish.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. David’s. Value, £48. Patron, the Bishop of St. David’s. The church stands on the spur of a hill, overlooking the joint plain of the Ithon, the Wye, and the Yrfon.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Powys Archives
Powys archives hold the following records:
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- bap 1734-1812, bur 1734-1812, mar 1734-1762
- bap 1813-1901
- bur 1814-1947
- mar 1757-1812, banns 1757-1824
- mar 1813-1844
- mar 1838-1971
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