Builth Wells
Builth Wells ( Welsh: Llanfair ym Muallt ) is a city in the Welsh Unitary Authority Powys on the River Wye.
Builth Wells is known for the Royal Welsh Show, an agricultural exhibition, which is held annually in the vicinity of the place.
History
Buallt or Buellt was originally the name of a Welsh small Kingdom. The name should bu from the Welsh words and falls originate, which translates to The wild ox shall be called by the wooded slopes. The cantref stretched between the rivers Wye and Tywi and in the north to Erword and Llanwrtyd. The Welsh government was conquered around 1095 by the Anglo-Norman Baron Philip de Braose, who established in 1100 to secure his rule in a strategically important crossing of the Wye a first castle. To the Builth Castle called Castle was an English settlement, ym by the built outside the castle walls church of St Mary Llanfair müllt ( Welsh for St Mary in the cantref of Builth ) was called. Builth Castle was frequently fought between Anglo-Normans and the English and Welsh in the 12th and 13th centuries, and finally totally destroyed in 1260. During the conquest of Wales by King Edward I, the castle was rebuilt as a stone fortress at the same time received the settlement in 1277 a Royal Charter and has been elevated to the Borough. In December 1282, was killed near the town in present-day suburb Cilmeri Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last ruler of an independent Wales in an ambush by the British.
The name of the Cantrefs was eventually transferred to the city and anglicised to Builth. Due to a big fire on December 27, 1690 more than 40 houses were destroyed. For reconstruction of the city, the remnants of the ruined castle was used as a quarry, so that today bear witness only earth walls of the once mighty fortress.
The small market town had almost 700 inhabitants in 1800. The construction of a new bridge over the Wye in 1779 and by the construction of a road leading through Builth from North to South Wales in 1820, the city won in the 19th century rapidly in importance. By 1740, first mentioned mineral springs was the city from 1830 to a local spa. For bathing the Park Wells were made with a saline and the Glanne Wells with a sulfur source. In the 1860s, the city received a railroad connection, and the town name was extended because of the bathers to Builth Wells.
The bathing no longer has any significance, but the small town is an economic and administrative center of the northern Brecknockshire. The city is known locally for the Royal Welsh Show, which takes place at the Royal Welsh Showground (although this actually already across the river on the territory of the neighboring community Llanelwedd (formerly Radnorshire; see Traditional Counties of Wales) is ).
The city's post office was one of the few who used a rare stamp of King Edward VIII, the uncrowned king, whose abdication in 1936 led to a constitutional crisis.
Traffic
The Builth Road Rail Station is served by the Heart of Wales Railway and is located about 1.5 km north of the city, after the initial centrally located railway station in the Mid- Wales Railway by the suspension of operations on the railway line Llanidloes - Talyllyn Junction as a result of decommissioning activities by the Beeching Axe can no longer be used. One of the main highways of Wales, the A483, now passes through the town on the old railway line. The plan is to create a bike path along the road which connects the city of the future with Swansea. Some 20 km of which are already created.