LLANWRTYD

WELLS  , an urban district of Breconshire, south Wales, with a station on the central Wales section of the London & North Western railway, 231 M. from London . It is situated in the midst of wild mountain scenery on the river Irfon, a right-bank tributary of the Wye . The place is chiefly noted for its sulphur and chalybeate springs, the former being the strongest of the kind in Wales . The medicinal properties of the sulphur water were discovered, or perhaps rediscovered, in 1732 by a famous Welsh writer, the Rev . Theophilus Evans, then vicar of Llangammarch (to which living Llanwrtyd was a chapelry till 1871) . Saline water is obtained daily in the season from Builth Wells . The Irfon is celebrated as a trout-stream . Out of the civil parish, which has an area of 10,785 acres and had in tool a population of 8J4, there was formed in 1907 the urban district, comprising 1611 acres, and with an estimated population at the date of formation of 812 . Welsh is the pre-dominant language of the district . Four miles lower down the Irfon valley, at the junction of the Cammarch and Irfon, and with a station on the London & North Western railway, is the village of Llangammarch, noted for its barium springs . The ancient parish of Llangammarch consists of the townships of Penbuallt and Treflis, the wells being in the former, which comprises 11,152 acres and hadin 1901 a population of only 433 . John Penry, the Puritan martyr, was born at Cefn-brith in this parish .

Charles Wesley's wife, Sarah Gwynne, was of Garth, an old residence just outside the parish .