Breconshire

British  

/ -ʃə, ˈbrɛknɒkˌʃɪə, ˈbrɛkənˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

1. (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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Example Sentences

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

Williams is a common name in Breconshire, and I cannot trace the descent of Thomas Vaughan's wife.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

As he ascended Milfre Mountain he heard a shouting behind him as if it were on Bryn Mawr, which is a part of the Black Mountain in Breconshire.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

The author was a priest of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on the confines of Monmouthshire and Breconshire, and is said to have lived in the time of Wickliffe, and to have been of his party.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various