Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market community and also area in the county of Powys and also historical county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, existing at the convergence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh (or top) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. A lot of the community's buildings, including the 1876 Market Hall, were developed from rock from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the facing as well as various other clothed stone used in the building and construction of the Elan Valley dams was additionally quarried here. The quarry generated the first occurrence of laumontite in Wales. The quarry is currently operated by Hanson Aggregates. Builth is a longstanding anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which combines bu be, similar to some Middle English orthography), suggesting "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), suggesting "lea or leas"; the very same kind is used no matter sex of the pet. The town included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springs were advertised as a site visitor attraction. Its contemporary Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt suggests "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".