PIPTON, a township, in the parish of GUSBURY, union of HAY, hundred of TALGARTH, county of BRECKNOCK, SOUTH WALES, 41}
miles (S. W.) from Hay; containing 129 inhabitants. This township is situated on the south bank of the Wye, and between
that river and the Llynvi: the rateable annual value is returned at £1260. The road from Hay to Balkhthrough it, and the
surrounding country is fertile and pleasing. There was formerly a chapel of ease to the mother church of Glesbury, now
demolished. A benefaction of £1 per annum was left for the use of the poor, in 1753, by Mrs. Sybil Williams, of Trevithel,
in the adjacent parish of Bronlliu.