LLANLLWCHAIARN (LLAN-LLWCHAIARN), a parish, in the union of NEWTOWN-AND-LLANIDLOES, partly in the newly created borough,
but wholly in the upper division of the hundred of NEWTOWN, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 1 mile (N.E.) from Newtown;
containing 2776 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the bank of the river Severn; and bounded on the north by that of
Bettws, on the west by Aberhavesp, and on the east, south, and south-west by Newtown; and comprises, according to
computation, about 4400 acres, of which two-thirds are amble, and the remainder meadow and pasture, with the exception of
a very small portion of woodland. The surface is hilly, and the scenery for the most part picturesque and beautiful; and
the lands are all inclosed, and in a good state of cultivation; the rateable annual value returned for the whole parish
being £5393. An act was obtained, in the 36th of George III., for improving the waste lands within the manors of Cedowain,
Hopton, and Over Gorddwr, under the provisions of which about nine hundred acres were allotted to this parish, in 1804,
and inclosed. The manufacture of flannel is carried on to a great extent, affording employment to about 720 persons, of
whom 606 are engaged in the principal factory, 66 at Milford, and the rest at Beyander mill: several buildings have been
erected during the last seven years, with about 300 houses, in those parts of the parish called Pen-y-Gloddva, Frankwell,
and the Basin, where also, the population has greatly increased, and which have been connected with the town of Newtown by
a bridge of three arches, built over the river Severn, and completed in the year 1827, at an expense of £4000, defrayed by
the county. The Montgomeryshire canal was extended, in 1819, from Garthmill to this parish, in which it terminates, near
Newtown; and the basin, with the wharfs, lime-kilns, and other works connected with that line of navigation, is within
its limits: the road from Welsbpool to Newtown passes by it on the south, and also that from Newtown to Machynlleth. That
part of the parish comprised within the boundaries of the new contributory borough of Newtown, consists of the townships
of Gwestydd and H&- didley. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £7. 7. 6., and endowed with
the great tithes of two of the four townships, which formerly belonged to Llanllugan nunnery, and with £100 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph; impropriators of the remainder of the rectorial tithes,
D. Pugh, and Saunders, Esqrs.: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £470, of which a sum of £220 is
payable to the impropriators, and £250 to the vicar, who has also a glebe of 33 acres, and a house, the whole valued at
£120 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Llwchaiarn, who flourished at the commencement of the seventh century, was
erected on the site of the ancient structure, in the year 1816, at an expense of £1200, and is a neat edifice of brick,
with a tower of the same materials, surmounted with pinnacles; the interior measures 64 feet by 24, and contains 370
sittings, of which 17 are free. Mr. Thomas Austin gave a rent-charge of £1; Mrs. Richard Mytton, the sum of £A0; and Mr.
John Hughes, £20: the produce of all which is annually distributed in money or coal to the poor, except that of the last
gift, which has not been paid for some years, owing to the insolvency of an attorney at Newtown, in whose hands it was
placed. To the south of the turnpike-road from Newtown to Welsbpool are vestiges of a Roman road, which anciently
communicated with Caer-Sws and the Gaer near Montgomery.