Radnorshire

Radnorshire
/rad"neuhr shear', -sheuhr/, n.
a historic county in Powys, in E Wales. Also called Radnor.

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▪ historical county, Wales, United Kingdom
Welsh  Sir Faesyfed 

      historic county, east-central Wales, on the English border. It covers an area of mountainous terrain and highlands, including Radnor Forest, with a central valley formed by the River Wye. Radnorshire lies completely within the present county of Powys.

      Burial mounds and Iron Age hill forts attest to a prehistoric presence in Radnorshire. When the Romans conquered the area during the 1st century CE, it was inhabited by the Ordovices. The Romans maintained a military occupation of the region for three centuries. There are ruins of a Roman villa outside the town of Knighton and the remains of a Roman fort, Castell Collen, near the town of Llandrindod Wells. After the Roman withdrawal the Anglo-Saxons invaded Great Britain, and Radnorshire became a refuge of the Britons, the ancestors of the Welsh. The limit of the Anglo-Saxon conquests during the early Middle Ages, Offa's Dyke, lines the border between Radnorshire and England. The county was contested by the Welsh princes of Powys and Brycheiniog. The Normans conquered much of Radnorshire in the late 1000s, and it became part of the Welsh Marches (border country between Wales and England). The 12th and 13th centuries saw almost continuous fighting in the area until Edward I of England defeated the Welsh in the 14th century.

      The region was almost entirely English-speaking by the 16th century, when Henry VIII of England formally created Radnorshire a county within the principality of Wales. It generally took the royalist side during the English Civil Wars, but by the late 17th century it had become a centre of such Nonconformist (non-Anglican Protestant) groups as the Baptists, the Quakers, and, later, the Methodists. Radnorshire was a relatively poor region during the 19th century and was a centre of the Rebecca Riots during the 1840s. Presteigne is the historic county town (seat).

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