DYFRYN-HONDDO, a chapelry, composed of the Upper and Lower divisions, in the parish and hundred of MERTHYR-CYNOG, county of BRECKNOCK, SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (N. by w.) from Brecknock, containing 386 inhabitants, of which number, 205 are in the Upper, and 181 in the Lower, division. The name of this place describes its situation in the Vale of HonddU, which abounds with pleasingly picturesque and highly romantic scenery. The surface is finely undulated: some of the hills are richly clothed with wood, and others afford good pasturage for the sheep which feed on their declivities; the lower grounds are partly arable and partly meadow land; and the views from the higher grounds combine many objects of interest and features of beauty. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Brecknock, and diocese of St. David's, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Merthyr-Cynog. The chapel, which was anciently a chapel of ease to Merthyr-Cynog, is situated in a winding and romantic part of the valley, near the source of the rapid river Hondd0, and on the mountain road from Brecknock to Builth, about two miles eastward from the mother church, and is sometimes called Capel Uchit, or "the upper chapel," to distinguish it from the chapel of Llanvihangel -Vechan, in the parish of Llandevailog-Vitch, lower down in the vale. On the right bank of the HonddQ, a little above the chapel, stands Mynachtt, once a residence for the monks from Malvern priory, who were employed to superintend the temporal concerns and collect the dues of that religions house, in this parish: it is now a mean dwelling, with a small farm attached, apparently retaining not the least vestige of the original building The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor of the Upper division is £ 96, and that for the Lower division £114. 11.