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A busy tourist centre and market town in sheep-rearing area and at point where rivers Honddu and Tarre join the Usk. Brecon was once the administrative centre of the county of Brecknock but now forms part of Powys.
The Norman castle kept the crossing of the Usk. The red sandstone cathedral was formerly the priory church of St John – a cell of Battle Abbey. There is a good museum of local antiquities and natural history. Sarah Siddons the actress, was born at Brecon, also Hugh Price, founder of Jesus College, Oxford. Christ College dating from the 16th century is a Public School.
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The Community Council is the level of local government in Powys nearest to the people of Brecon. A comunity like Brecon usually formed around a village or other small settlement and used to be centred around the Parish Church. In the late 1800s Church and State separated but the same area is now represented as a local authority by the Brecon Community Council and the Church by the Parochial Church Council.
The Community Councils have many powers and some duties. (Cf. The Good Councillors Guide).
An example of a power is the one that allows the purchase and operation of street lighting. One duty requires the council to open the meetings to the press and public, with few exceptions. They manage local amenities in Brecon and have a watching brief on local issues and their opinion is noted by those higher authorities in matters concerning them such as local planning issues.
We get many requests from people looking for their ancestors but we do not carry that kind information as we are concerned with places rather than people. So we provide you with a link to one of the best UK online ancestry databases on the Internet.
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Brecon Canal
by Ystradgynlais Volunteer Centre
Brecon Cathedral
by Ystradgynlais Volunteer Centre
Brecon Castle
by Ystradgynlais Volunteer Centre
Brecon Cathedral
by Ystradgynlais Volunteer Centre
Brecon Castle
by Ystradgynlais Volunteer Centre
This small selection of historic images of Brecon are from our British National Image Library. You may click on the thumbnail pictures to view larger versions and read what information we have regarding the image.
Brecon Castle
Some of the organisations that we have included in our Brecon pages appear on the map above
providing they have a bricks and mortar
premises in Brecon however others operate entirely on
the internet but are based in Brecon or their website is entirely about Brecon.
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include on our Organisations in or
about Brecon pages.
You may click on the organisation name below for more information (if available) about each of them and a link to their own website.
Attractions and Event Venues are shown on the map and sidebar at the top of this page but if you would like a list of them ordered by type where you can select the location you require for more information including location map, address, contact details and forthcoming events in our section about Visitor Attractions and Event Venues in Brecon
Alternatively you may follow this link to see what the attractions in the surrounding area have to offer
If you are organising an event in Brecon then let us know about it and we will put a link to your event here and what's more we'll do it for FREE. The earlier you do it the better as not only will visitors to this Brecon page see details of your event but so will visitors to our Powys pages and really big events will be displayed at national level too. Follow the link immediately below
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Coach House
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George Hotel
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