Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market town and area in the region of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the convergence of rivers Wye as well as Irfon, in the Welsh (or top) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. A lot of the community's structures, consisting of the 1876 Market Hall, were built from rock from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the encountering and also various other dressed rock used in the building and construction of the Elan Valley dams was additionally quarried right here. The quarry generated the first occurrence of laumontite in Wales. The quarry is presently operated by Hanson Aggregates. Builth is a historical anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which combines bu be, equivalent to some Middle English orthography), suggesting "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), implying "lea or leas"; the same form is used no matter sex of the animal. The town added "Wells" in the 19th century when its springtimes were promoted as a site visitor attraction. Its modern-day Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt suggests "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".
