Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market community as well as community in the area of Powys and historical county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the convergence of rivers Wye as well as Irfon, in the Welsh (or upper) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. A lot of the community's structures, including the 1876 Market Hall, were built from rock from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the facing and various other clothed rock used in the building of the Elan Valley dams was also quarried below. The quarry produced 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 integrates bu be, equivalent to some Middle English orthography), suggesting "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), suggesting "lea or leas"; the exact same type is used regardless of sex of the pet. The community included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springtimes were advertised as a visitor tourist attraction. Its modern Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt suggests "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".