Where is Brecknockshire?

Brecknockshire is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.0000°, -3.4167°.

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Brecknockshire

Also known as: Sir Frycheiniog

Brecknockshire in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Pasture land near Lower Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 923699 — Keith Salvesen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Brecknockshire is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Brecknockshire (Welsh: Brycheiniog or Sir Frycheiniog), also known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon, was one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolition in 1974. It was created in 1536 under the Laws in Wales Act 1535, and from 1889 it was an administrative county with a county council; the administrative county was abolished in 1974. The county was named after the medieval Welsh territory of Brycheiniog, which was anglicised to Brecknock and also gave its name to the county town of Brecon. The former county's area is mountainous and primarily rural.

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Background

History

The county of Brecknock was created in 1536 under the Laws in Wales Act 1535, which formally incorporated Wales into the Kingdom of England and extended English models of government, including counties, across all of Wales. Previously the Brecknockshire area had been subdivided into various smaller marcher lordships and other territories. The largest of these were the Lordship of Brecknock, which had its roots in the medieval Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog, and the cantref of Buellt.

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