LLANFIHANGEL-NANT-BRANE, a parish, with a small village, in the district and county of Brecon; on the river Bran, an affluent of the Usk, 8 miles NW by W of Brecon r. station. Post town, Brecon. Acres, 9,161. Real property, £2,516. Pop., 453. Houses, 96. The property is subdivided.—The parish is cut into two sections, Lower and Upper. I he living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £66. Patrons, the Coheirs of the late W. Jeffreys, Esq. The church is tolerable; and there is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))