30 Aug
Electric | Testing & Inspection
Builth Wells - LD2
Enquiry from: Sarah T
Start Date: Immediate
Work to be carried out for holiday let . (Pat testing required
Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market town and also community in the region of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, existing at the assemblage 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 number of the community's buildings, consisting of the 1876 Market Hall, were developed from stone from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the encountering as well as various other dressed rock made use of in the building and construction of the Elan Valley dams was additionally quarried here. The quarry created the first occurrence of laumontite in Wales. The quarry is currently run by Hanson Aggregates. Builth is a longstanding anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which incorporates bu be, comparable to some Middle English orthography), indicating "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), implying "lea or leas"; the exact same kind is utilized regardless of gender of the animal. The town included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springtimes were advertised as a visitor tourist attraction. Its modern Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt means "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".
