Builth Wells
Builth Wells is a market town as well as area in the county of Powys and historical county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, existing at the assemblage of rivers Wye and also Irfon, in the Welsh (or top) part of the Wye Valley. It has a population of 2,568. A number of the town's structures, consisting of the 1876 Market Hall, were developed from stone from Llanelwedd Quarry. Much of the dealing with and also other clothed rock utilized in the building of the Elan Valley dams was also quarried below. The quarry generated the first occurrence of laumontite in Wales. The quarry is presently operated by Hanson Aggregates. Builth is a longstanding anglicization of the Old Welsh Buellt/Buallt which integrates bu be, equivalent to some Middle English orthography), indicating "ox" with gellt (later gwellt), meaning "lea or leas"; the exact same type is utilized regardless of gender of the pet. The town included "Wells" in the 19th century when its springs were promoted as a site visitor tourist attraction. Its modern-day Welsh name Llanfair-ym-Muallt means "Saint Mary in Ox Leas".