Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market community as well as neighborhood in the county of Powys and also historical region of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, existing at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh (or upper) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. Many of the town's structures, consisting of the 1876 Market Hall, were built from stone from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the facing as well as other clothed rock utilized in the building and construction of the Elan Valley dams was also quarried below. The quarry generated the first occurrence of laumontite in Wales. The quarry is presently run by Hanson Aggregates. Builth is a longstanding anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which integrates bu be, similar to some Middle English orthography), meaning "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), suggesting "lea or leas"; the same kind is made use of regardless of sex of the animal. The community added "Wells" in the 19th century when its springs were promoted as a visitor tourist attraction. Its modern Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt indicates "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".