Breconshire
noun
(until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
Historical Examples
The Rivers and Streams of England A.G. Bradley
Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2) John Aubrey
Wild Wales George Borrow
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) John Aubrey
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 Various
British Goblins Wirt Sikes
British Goblins Wirt Sikes
A Cotswold Village J. Arthur Gibbs
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan
Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 17 1916 Various
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