Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market town as well as community in the region of Powys and historical county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying 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 number of the community's buildings, consisting of the 1876 Market Hall, were developed from rock from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the facing and also other dressed rock made use of in the building 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 historical anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which incorporates bu be, comparable to some Middle English orthography), suggesting "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), suggesting "lea or leas"; the very same form is utilized despite gender of the animal. The town included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springs were advertised as a site visitor destination. Its contemporary Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt means "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".