Breconshire


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Related to Breconshire: Buteshire, Caernarfonshire

Breconshire

(ˈbrɛkənˌʃɪə; -ʃə) or

Brecknockshire

n
(Placename) (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
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Thank you all, from all of us from Swansea to Breconshire. May our friendship continue and grow.
Mam chose the pork belly (PS16.50) and I decided to get that evening's special, coffee rubbed 10oz Breconshire rump steak (PS21.50).
This week sees the Urdd Eisteddfod at Llanelwedd, the culmination of many months of preparation by the people of the old counties of Breconshire and Radnorshire.
The inaugural event, Breconshire's flagship Royal Welsh Show fundraiser, suffered the worst possible combination of wind and rain.
Pentre, the home farm of 2012 Royal Welsh Agricultural Society president John Davies, has previously hosted events for the National Sheep Association and will devote around 100 acres to this first Royal Welsh Grassland Event, organised as part of Breconshire's featured county programme in the run-up to the Royal Welsh Show in July.
With Builth Wells' senior side out of action, the club's youngsters took centre stage as they saw off Brecon 32-10 to keep their flag flying in the Breconshire Youth Cup.
WMALS was formed in the 1960s and comprises eight regional law societies (Breconshire & Radnorshire; Birmingham; Herefordshire; Stafford & District; North Staffordshire; Walsall; Wolverhampton and Worcestershire).
Beers from Welsh breweries such as Brains, Breconshire, Conwy, Plassy and PurpleMoose are on sale until next Wednesday and are selling very well, said Ian.
DARTS: Durham and Northumberland lost 20-16 and 23-13 to Merseyside and Somerset respectively in Division Two of the Kaliber Inter-County Championships ( while in Division Four Breconshire overcame Tyne and Wear 26-10.
Wales also suffered freezing temperatures with Sennybridge in BRECONSHIRE dropping to an icy -9C.
Tom Cain's essay on the trimming Royalist Mildmay Fane amply fulfills its promise, as does Alan Rudrum's similarly focused look at Henry Vaughan's reflections on his Breconshire royalist neighbors.