Montgomeryshire

Montgomeryshire, a North Wales inland county, surrounded by Merioneth, Cardigan, Radnor, Salop, and Denbigh; is chiefly a stretch of mountain pasture land, which rises to 2500 ft. at Plinlimmon, and in which the Severn rises; but in the E. are well wooded and fertile valleys. There are lead and zinc mines, and slate and limestone quarries. There is some flannel manufacture at Newtown. The county town is Montgomery (1).

Population (circa 1900) given as 58,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Montgomery, Robert * Montholon, Comte de
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Montesquieu, Baron de
Montevideo
Montez, Lola
Montezuma II.
Montfort, Simon de
Montgolfier Brothers
Montgomerie, Alexander
Montgomery, Comte de
Montgomery, James
Montgomery, Robert
Montgomeryshire
Montholon, Comte de
Montmorency, Anne, Duc de
Montmorency, Henri, second Duc of
Montpelier
Montpellier
Montreal
Montrose
Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of
Montyon Prizes
Moody, Dwight Lyman

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Antique pictures of Montgomeryshire

Links here from Chalmers

Barrow, Isaac
Heylin, Dr. Petek
Jeffreys, Lord George
Jones, Thomas
Powell, David
Vandyck, Sir Anthony
Wilson, Richard