LLANBEDR-PAINSCASTLE, a village and a parish in the district of Hay and county of Radnor. The village stands on the river Bachwy, a tributary of the Wye, 6½ miles NW by W of Hay r. station; is a small place; was once a market-town; has still fairs on 12 May, 22 Sept., and 15 Dec.; and is a polling-place.—The parish comprises 3,877 acres; and its Post town is Hay, under Hereford. Real property, £2,164. Pop., 306. Houses, 60. A castle was founded here by the family of Do Paine; passed to the Mortimers and others; and is now represented by only the vestiges of its moat. There is a lake of about a mile in circuit. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £68. Patron, the Bishop of St. David's.

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