Radnorshire
Radnorshire was one of the smallest and most barren counties in seventeenth-century Wales. K. Parker, Radnorshire from Civil War to Restoration (Logaston, 2000), 1-2; R. Suggett, Houses and Hist. in the March of Wales: Radnorshire 1400-1800 (Aberystwyth, 2005), 3, 6-7, 9. It was described in the 1670s as ‘for soil, very hungry and ungrateful to the husbandman ... being so mountainous and rocky, especially in the west and north parts, which are fit only to feed cattle. And were it not for the many rivers which so plentifully water it ...
