TRAGYNON (TREF-GYNON), a parish, in the union of NEWTOWN-AND-LLANIDLOES, lower division of the hundred of Newtown, county
of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, E4 miles (S.by W.) from Newtown; containing 709 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated
on the turnpike-road from Newtown to Llanvair, and surrounded by the pa-Ashes of Bettws, Manavon, and Aberhavesp, emu-
prises five thousand acres of arable, pasture, SD/ woodland, principally in old in.closures, and about thirteen hundred
and thirty-six acres of uninclosed land, incapable of cultivation, and affording only pasturage for sheep and young
cattle.. The surface is agreeably diversified with hills And vales, with abundance. of good oak and fir timber; the river
Rhiew flows .through a part of the parish, and there are some smaller brooks. Gregynog Hall, a seat of Lord Tudeley, adds
considerably to the beauty of the district; and the views from: the higher grounds embrace _a well-cultivated tract of
country. The soil in the lower lands is rick; and there are some good turbaries in various parts, affording fuel to the
inhabitants; the rateable annual value is returned at £4243. About five hundred acres were inclosed, under an act of
parliament passed in 1794. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£t300 parliamentary grant; net income, £87; patron and impropriator, Lord Tudeley, whose tithes have been commuted for a
rent-charge of £90. The church, dedicated to St. Cynon, is an ancient edifice, in the early style of English
'architecture, with a tower, apparently of great antiquity, and coattails some neat monuments, among which is one of white
marble to the memory of the late benevolent. Ardor Blayney, Esq., at whose expense the church was new pewed and
embellished. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. A day school,
consisting dolma 60 children, is temporarily supported by a salary from the trustees of the late Mrs. Bevan; and about
235 males and females are gratuitously taught by the Calvinistic Methodists in two Sunday schools. Four persons are
nominated from this place se inmates of the almshouses founded, in 1709, by Arthur Weaver, Esq., in the parish of Iiettws.
The fund for distribution among the poor on New Year's day and Easter Monday amounts teaa..12. annually; arising from two
tenements, and pieces of land contaming about seven acres and a quarter, yielding a .rent of £13. 16. per annum, the
gift of unknown benefactors; and a grant of 1.6. 6. by, the late Arthur Blayney, Esq.; together. with a rent-charge of
10s, by a member of the family of Foulkes, and a bequest of £5 per annum, by Mr. Weaver, founderef.tlle _almshouses, of
which last. £2 are:expended in repels and firing. The Roman Via Deana passes acmes this parish, and some remains of it
were here visible .until of late years.