Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market town and also area in the county of Powys and historical county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh (or top) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. A number of the town's buildings, consisting of the 1876 Market Hall, were built from rock from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the encountering as well as other dressed stone utilized in the building and construction of the Elan Valley dams was also quarried here. The quarry produced the first occurrence of laumontite in Wales. The quarry is currently operated by Hanson Aggregates. Builth is a historical anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which incorporates bu be, similar to some Middle English orthography), implying "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), meaning "lea or leas"; the very same kind is used despite gender of the pet. The community included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springs were advertised as a visitor destination. Its modern-day Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt implies "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".