LLANDILO-GRABAN, a parish in the district of Hay and county of Radnor; on the river Wye, at the boundary with Brecon, adjacent to the Llanidloes and Talyllyn railway, 5 miles SE by S of Builth. Post town, Builth, Breconshire. Acres, 3,059. Real property, £1,831. Pop., 263. Houses, 47. The property is much subdivided. Much of the surface is hilly and wild. A beech on the border is seen at great distances around. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £72. Patron, the Bishop of St. David's. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad. Charities, £20.

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