Penpont, Breconshire

Historical Description

Penpont or Bettws Penpont, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Llanspyddid parish, Brecknockshire, on the river Usk, 4 miles W of Brecon. Post town, Brecon. Acreage, 2005; population, 105. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1880. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; gross value, £170.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Breconshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Penpont are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail