![]() ![]() Until the Laws in Wales Act 1535, Radnor was outside the Principality of Wales. The Battle of Bryn Glas was fought on 22 June 1402 at Pilleth during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr. The area that would become Radnorshire included Cwmhir Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1176 at Abbeycwmhir. The geographic territory of Radnorshire roughly corresponds with the Welsh territory of Rhwng Gwy a Hafren (English: Between Wye and Severn) which fell under the control of the Marcher Lords at the end of the 11th century. The Radnor Forest is an area of high ground covering a large part of the east of the area. The largest town in Radnorshire is Llandrindod Wells, with other towns being Knighton, Presteigne, and Rhayader. Powys County Council then had a Radnorshire "shire committee" until 2018. ![]() Radnorshire District Council was abolished in 1996 when Powys became a unitary authority. The district was renamed Radnorshire in 1989. The administrative county was abolished in 1974, with the area becoming the lower-tier Radnor district within the new county of Powys. ![]() Presteigne then served as the county's administrative centre until 1889 when Radnorshire County Council was established and chose to base itself in Llandrindod Wells instead. From 1543 onwards the assizes were held alternately at New Radnor and Presteigne, later settling at Presteigne alone. The county was named after New Radnor, which was the original county town. The county was formed in 1536 from several Marcher lordships under the Laws in Wales Acts, as part of the formal annexation of Wales into the Kingdom of England by Henry VIII. The historic county was bounded to the north by Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, to the east by Herefordshire, to the south by Brecknockshire and to the west by Cardiganshire. It covers a sparsely populated area in mid Wales. Radnorshire ( Welsh: Sir Faesyfed) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county. Hundreds, sanitary districts, urban districts, rural districts ![]()
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