Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWBRIDGE, or Newbridge-on-Wye

NEWBRIDGE, or Newbridge-on-Wye, a hamlet on the S W border of Radnor; on the river Wye, and on the Llanidloes, Builth, and Talyllyn railway, 7¼ miles S S E of Rhayader. It has a station on the railway, a post-office under Builth, Breconshire, and a great fair on 17 Oct.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Radnorshire AncC
Place names: NEWBRIDGE     |     NEWBRIDGE ON WYE     |     NEWBRIDGE OR NEWBRIDGE ON WYE
Place: Newbridge on Wye

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