CRICKHOWELL  , a See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market See also:

• TOWN

town of Brecknockshire, See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, 14 M . E. of See also:

• BRECON, or BRECKNOCK

Brecon, beautifully situated on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• USK
• USK, THOMAS (d. 1388)

Usk, which divides it from Llangattock . Pop . (1901) 1150 . The nearest railway stations are Govilon (5 m.) and Gilwern (4 m.) on the See also:

• LONDON

London & See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-Western railway, but a See also:

• MAIL

mail and passenger motor service See also:

• RUNNING

running between See also:

• ABERGAVENNY

Abergavenny and Brecon passes through the town . It is also served by the Brecon & See also:

• NEWPORT

Newport See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

Canal, which passes through Llangattock about a mile distant . See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

Agriculture is almost the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district . The town derives its name from a See also:

• BRITISH

British fortress, See also:

• CRAG (a Celtic word, cf. Gael. creag, Manx creg, and Welsh and modern Scots craig)

Crag Hywel, commonly called Table See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain, about 2 M . N.N.E. of the town . Crickhowell See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

Castle, of which only a See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower remains, probably dated from the See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . The See also:

• MANOR

manor of Crickhowell used to be regarded as a See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough by See also:

• PRESCRIPTION

prescription, but there is no See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of its ever having possessed any municipal institutions . The See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church is in transitional Decorated See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style .