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Machynlleth
Parliamentary Gazetteer of England
and Wales, 1843: 1

  Entry for Machynlleth
This volume was published less than a decade after the Pigot's directory but it is useful to the historian as it gives information deemed of more use to the professional classes and those in public office, for whom it was designed. 

Parliamentary
Gazetteer
of England
and Wales 1843

Extract from the
entry for
Machynlleth

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Entry from Gazetteer of 1843
 

The entry gives details of the newly founded Poor Law Union and the National School and records the spread of nonconformity

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