Builth Wells is a market town and community in the county of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh part of the Wye Valley. In 2011 it had a population of 2,568.
Bridge over the River Wye at Builth Wells
Bronze sculpture of a Welsh Black bull by Gavin Fifield
The remains of Builth Wells railway station in 1967
Flooding in 1910s; photo by Percy Benzie Abery.
Until 1974, Brecknockshire, also formerly known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon, was an administrative county in the south of Wales, later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. Named after its county town of Brecon, the county was mountainous and primarily rural.
Brecon Shire Hall: County council's meeting place.
New County Hall, Captain's Walk, Brecon: County council's main offices, built 1962 and demolished 2016.