a town in the hundred of Machynleth, in Montgomeryshire, in Wales, 193 miles from London. It is a sinecure rectory, in the patronage of the Bishop of St Asaph. The annual value of the real property was assessed in 1815 at L5649. The population amounted in 1801 to 1743, in 1811 to 1657, and 1821 to 1893, and in 1831 to 2040.