Breconshire
Brecknockshire (ˈbrɛknɒkˌʃɪə, -ʃə)
/ (ˈbrɛkənˌʃɪə, -ʃə) /
(until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
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How to use Breconshire in a sentence
The bed of a salmon river or a rocky trout stream whether in Breconshire or Northumberland differs nowise.
The Rivers and Streams of England | A.G. BradleyIn Breconshire, the virago was punished through the ceffyl pren merely by the moral influence of parading it before her cottage.
British Goblins | Wirt SikesIn the parish of Llanelly, Breconshire, the males exceed the females by more than one thousand.
He was one of my councell in my law-suites in Breconshire about the entaile.
Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2) | John AubreyHe could ride nine miles together in his owne land in Breconshire.
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) | John Aubrey
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