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DIRECTORY.] .SOUTH 'VALES. BRECON. 87 is 8 parish on the West Cleddau river, of D. J. Innes Ackland esg. D.L. and is at present (1895) county of Pembroke, 3~ miles south-east from Haver- vacant. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Mil­ fordwest and 3 south-east from the station of same ford Pill. Boulston House, a large stone building, the name on the Great Western railway; in the hundred property of D. Jr Innes Ackland esg. D.L., J.P. who is end petty sessional division of Dungieddy, county lord of the manor, is nQw occupied by Lady Catherine court. district and uni'On of , rural AlIen. Sir Charles E. Gregg Phillips bart. and D. J. I. deanery of , and archdeaconry and diocese Ackland esg. are the principal landowners. The soil is of St. David's. The church is an ancient building of clay, chief crops wheat, barley, oats &; root crops. The stone,in the Early English style,and consists of chancel \lnd area is 1,570 acres.; rateable value £836; the population nave, and 8.turret oontaining I bell; there are some old in 1891 was III. monuments to the members of the Wogan family. The church affords 60 sittings. The register of baptisms Letters are received at 9 a.m. from Haverfordwest, whicl) and burials dates from the year 1799, marriages from 1833. is the nearest post, money order & telegraph office The living is a donative, net yearly value £12, in the gift The children of this place attend the school at Allen Lady Catherine, Boulston ha Harries Mary (Miss), Milling Lewis Thomas, Hill block Nicholas Job, Norchard Lewis Henry, Hill block Nicholasr Job,Norchard & Rosen green Lewis Levi, Eastwood Noott William, Hill block FARMERS. Lewis Mary (Mrs.), Lake villa Thomas Richard, Boulston farm Belton John Jesse, Boulston Home fm Lewis Thomas, Hanton BRAWDY is a parish in the county of Pembroke, 8 the residence of Captain Roch. Sir Owen Henry PhilipP$ miles south-west from station, on the Clynder- Scourfield bart. Captain Roch, Mrs. Each and the Rev. wen and Letterston railway, 7 east from St. David's and F. J ones are the principal landowners. The soil is sand; 9 nOl"th-west from Haverfordwest, in the hundred and the chief crops are barley and oats. The area is 5.534 petty sessi

BRECON. BRECON, or Brecknock, is a municipal bOTough, market railway communication with the north via Three Cocks an.d uru{)lJ1 town, head of a county court district. pe,trty Junotion, Builth and Llanidloos; 6aIs.'t~rd by the Hay sess,ionel divislion and chief town of its COWlty, in the and Hereforo line; to the south via M:ewhyr or Neath, hund'reds of Mertfuyr and PeI1JCeIly, rural deanery 01 these lines uniting at· B~econ. and westwa.rd by wa;y of Breoon (first part), archdJeaoonry of Breoon and diocese oJ Three Cocks Junction, Builth road and Carmarthen, or St. David's, and is 190 miles by rail, 170 by rood from via Ne3lth and Swansea.. The Merlhyr and Oambrian lines LoncLon, 59 from Bristol, 37i from Here{md, 36 from unite at Ta.lyllyn, a short dis.tance north-east of the Swansea. 28 from Nelllth, 22! from MeT'thyr, 20 from town i still more to the north-east, between Brecon and Abergavenny and 14 from Crickhowell. The ~wn has Ray, is Three Cocks, the junction of the Hay Bnd Rere- , n