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wales
anglesey
brecknockshire
caernarfonshire
carmarthenshire
cardiganshire
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monmouthshire
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pembrokeshire
radnorshire
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Brecknockshire/Sir Frycheiniog (Brecon, Builth Wells, Hay-on-Wye, Talgarth,
Llanwrtwd Wells)
Brecknockshire, one of the most Welsh of
counties, well endowed with good samples of all the scenic beauties
for which the principality is famous, and yet remote and
inaccessible enough to leave Nature victorious in her eternal
struggle with civilisation.
Geographically the county falls into three sections. The first is
the nameless tangle of hills north of the Yrfon valley, a region so
wild and desolate that the very presence of man seems an intrusion.
Here the traveller can still enjoy the sensation ? a sensation all
too rare ? of meeting natives who cannot speak a work of English and
answer interrogatories with the verbal hieroglyphics of the Welsh
tongue.
The second contains the great ridges of the Mynedd Epynt and the
Mynedd Bwlch y Groes on the west and the Black Forest on the east,
and lies between the valleys of the Wye and the Usk. The ?Wye
Valley,? to the average tourist, means the well-known stretch of the
river from Ross to the Severn, but the initiated know that its upper
reaches form the most fascinating and delightful boundary between
Brecknockshire on the one side and Radnorshire and Herefordshire on
the other.
It has been supposed that a Roman road leading eastwards from the
fort at Brecon Gaer to Kenchester Roman fort in Herefordshire ran
through the Middle Wye, possibly along the line of the A438 between
Bronllys and Hay, but no certain evidence of this road has yet been
found.
Counties
Wales Anglesey,
Brecknockshire,
Caernarfonshire
Carmarthenshire,
Cardiganshire,
Denbighshire
Flintshire,
Glamorgan, Merioneth
Monmouthshire,
Montgomeryshire,
Pembrokeshire,
Radnorshire
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