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HAY
, a See also:market See also:town and See also:urban See also:district of See also:Breconshire, See also:south See also:Wales, on the See also:Hereford and See also:Brecon See also:section of the Midland railway, 1642 m. from See also:London, 20 M
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W. of Hereford and 17 M
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N.E. of Brecon by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1901), 1680
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The See also:Golden Valley railway to Pontrilas (184 m.), now a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western, also starts from Hay
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The town occupies rising ground on the south (right) See also:bank of the Wye, which here separates the counties of Brecknock and See also:Radnor but immediately below enters See also:Herefordshire, from which the town is separated on the E. by the See also:river Dulas
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See also:Leland and See also:Camden ascribe a See also:Roman origin to the town, and the former states that quantities of Roman See also:coin (called by the See also:country See also:people " See also:Jews' See also:money ") and some pottery had been found near by, but of this no other See also:record is known
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The Wye valley in this district served as the See also:gate between the See also:present counties of Brecknock and Hereford, and, though Welsh continued for two or three centuries after the See also:Norman See also:Conquest to be the spoken See also:language of the adjoining See also:part of Herefordshire south of the Wye (known as Archenfield), there must have been a " burh " serving as a Mercian outpost at Glasbury, 4 M
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W. of Hay, which was itself several See also:miles See also:west of See also:Offa's Dyke
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But the earliest See also:settlement at Hay probably See also:dates from the Norman conquest of the district by See also:Bernard See also:Newmarch about to88 (in which See also:year he granted Glasbury, probably as the first fruits of his invasion, to St See also:Peter's, See also:Gloucester)
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The See also:manor of Hay, which probably corresponded to some existing Welsh See also:division, he gave to See also:Sir See also:
The See also:castle, which was probably built in Newmarch's See also:time and rebuilt by his great-See also:grandson See also: |
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