Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market community and also community in the county of Powys and also historical region of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, existing at the confluence of rivers Wye as well as Irfon, in the Welsh (or upper) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. Many of the community's structures, including the 1876 Market Hall, were built from stone from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the facing as well as other dressed stone utilized in the building of the Elan Valley dams was likewise 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 combines bu be, equivalent to some Middle English orthography), meaning "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), meaning "lea or leas"; the same form is made use of regardless of gender of the animal. The community included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springtimes were advertised as a visitor attraction. Its modern-day Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt implies "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".
