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Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Brecon. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

• The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
• Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
• References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

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Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Brecon. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
ABERHONDDU	Parish-level Unit (CP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 19.
BRECKNOCK	Local Government District (MB/UD)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Local Government District (RD)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 4.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor Law Parishes of England and Wales; and of the Population, Area, and Rateable Value thereof in 1881 (57)
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Sanitary District (USD)	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
	Sanitary District (RSD)	1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
BRECKNOCK DEFYNNOCK AND LLANGORSE DIV	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK DEFYNNOCK DIV	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK DEVYNOCK	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK LLANGORSE	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK LLANGORSE DIV	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK MERTHYR CYNOG	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK MERTHYR CYNOG DIV	Local Government District (RD)	Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office)
BRECKNOCK ST DAVID	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
BRECKNOCK ST DAVID WITHIN	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
BRECKNOCK ST DAVID WITHOUT	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
BRECKNOCK ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
BRECKNOCK ST MARY	Parish-level Unit (CP/Ch)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
BRECON	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
	Ancient District (Borough)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
	Constituency (BorCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Local Government District (MB/UD)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 19.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 19.
CASTLE INN	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
CHRIST COLLEGE	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
CHRISTS COLLEGE	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
DAVID ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
DAVID ST OR LLAN FAES	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
DAVID ST OR LLAN FAES LOWER	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
DAVID ST OR LLAN FAES UPPER	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
JOHN ST THE EVANGELIST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
LLAN FAES	Parish-level Unit (CP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 193.
	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
LOWER DIVISION OR LLANFAES	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
LOWER DIVISION OR ST MARY	Parish-level Unit (CP/Ch)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST DAVID	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST DAVID LOWER DIVISION	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST DAVID UPPER DIVISION	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST DAVID WITHIN	Parish-level Unit (CP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 193.
ST DAVID WITHOUT	Parish-level Unit (CP/PA)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 193.
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 195.
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST LOWER DIVISION	Parish-level Unit (CP/Ch)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ST MARY	Parish-level Unit (CP/Ch)	M. Richards, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1969), p. 195.
W481315	Local Government District (MB/UD)
W481320	Local Government District (RD)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Brecon, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

• For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
• Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
• Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.



Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Brecon, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:



GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brecon, in Powys and Brecknockshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/126/names

Date accessed: 26th April 2024