Breconshire
Britishnoun
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Henry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland of Bwlch, 50, Welsh financier and mining potentate; at Buckland, near Bwlch, Breconshire, when the horse he was exercising ran into a telegraph pole.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are several legends about Mol Walbec’s pebbles in Breconshire.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt
I am a soldier of fifteen years’ standing, a captain in the Second Breconshire Battalion.
From Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
He was educated for the ministry, and appointed to the Curacy of Llanwrtyd and Abergwesyn, in Breconshire, in 1740.
From The Poetry of Wales by Jenkins, John
It is even claimed that Cwm Pwcca, or Puck Valley, a part of the romantic glen of the Clydach, in Breconshire, is the original scene of the “Midsummer-Night’s Dream.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
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