Cantref, Breconshire

Description
Cantreff, a parish in Breconshire, on the river Cynrig, a tributary of the Usk, 2 1/2 miles SSE of Brecon. It includes the chapelry of Nantddu, and its post town is Brecon. Acreage, 8986; population, 411. The surface includes the Brecknock Beacons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St David's. The church is good.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5