VELINDRE-with-TRIGGOED (TREF-Y-FELIN), a township, in that part of the parish of GLISBURY which is in the hundred of
TALGARTH, union of HAY, county of BRECKNOCK, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (S. W.) from Hay; containing 410 inhabitants. It is
situated at the north-western extremity of the Black Mountains of Talgarth. Tregoed, In the hamlet of that name, is the
seat of the Viscount Hereford; and in the township of Velindre is Gwernyvet, formerly that of the family of Williams, but
now a farm-house, and the property of Colonel Wood, in right of his mother, who was the daughter of the late Sir Edward
Williams. At Velindre was once a chapel of ease, which was demolished about the middle of the last century; and here was
anciently what was called the Lord's mill, which is implied in the name, signifying " Milltown." There are places of
worship for Baptists and Independents; the latter, endowed with a hem designated Blaenan Bach, in the parish, said to have
been purchased with the aggregate amount of several small bequests and donations, and now yielding a rental of £20. In
1612, Sir David Williams, of Gwernyvet, left twenty shillings per annum, to be paid out of the tithes of Gwenddwr, towards
repairing the road from Velindre to Tyle Glas; thirty shillings from the same source to the poor of Velindre and
Aberllynvi; and £5 a year, to be distributed either in food or clothing, to the most distressed poor in the neighbourhood
of Gwernyvet. The property left for these purposes having very much increased in value, the sum of £8. O. 6. is now paid
towards the repair of the road; £6. 8. 6., as the bequest for the poor of Velindre and Aberllynvi; and £22. 2. 6. are die-
tributed in meat and clothing to the poor resident about Gwernyvet.