{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = Wales | official_name = Llowes | coordinates = {{coord|52.0668|-3.1797|display=inline,title}} | unitary_wales = Powys | lieutenancy_wales = Powys | constituency_westminster = Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe<ref>{{cite web|title=Location of Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe|url= https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4500/location |website=parliament.uk |date=July 2024|access-date=1 December 2025}}</ref> | constituency_welsh_assembly = Brecon & Radnorshire | post_town = HEREFORD | postcode_district = HR3 | postcode_area = HR | dial_code = 01497 | population = 110 | static_image = St. Meilig's Cross - geograph.org.uk - 404101.jpg | static_image_width = 250px | static_image_caption = St. Meilig's Cross }}
'''Llowes''' is a small village in the community of Glasbury, Powys, Wales. The village has approximately 110 inhabitants (2005).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.powys.gov.uk/uploads/media/07_Glasbury_en.pdf |title=Final Proposals |accessdate=2009-06-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608033130/http://www.powys.gov.uk/uploads/media/07_Glasbury_en.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-08 }}</ref> The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 3 miles (5 km) to the south-east.
==History== ===St. Meilig and St. Meilig's Cross=== The parish church is dedicated to St. Meilig, who is said to have founded a monastery in the 6th century at Croesfeilig near the village and to be buried there. Meilig may have been one of the sons of Caw and brother to St. Gildas. He is mentioned in Culhwch and Olwen as one of the knights in the court of King Arthur.<ref>S. Baring-Gould, The Lives of the British Saints</ref> The church was completely rebuilt in 1853, though the base of the tower may be medieval and the iron-banded font is thought to be 12th century. St. Meilig's Cross, which originally stood at its eponymous site (Croesfeilig), was moved in the 12th century to the churchyard, and in 1956 (to prevent further erosion) into the church itself. The cross, carved into a standing stone, is believed to date either to the 6th or 7th century<ref>C. Barber, Exploring Kilvert Country {{ISBN|1-872730-24-8}}</ref> or to the 11th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/radnor/16899.htm |title=Radnorshire churches survey |website=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust |access-date=1 December 2025 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160709023923/http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/radnor/16899.htm |archive-date=9 July 2016}}</ref> Local legend referred to the cross as "Moll Walbee's Stone", claiming it was thrown there by "Moll Walbee" or Maud de St. Valery, the immensely strong and indomitable wife of William de Braose, lord of Hay-on-Wye castle. Whilst carrying stones in her apron from the quarry at Glasbury to rebuild the castle, one fell into her shoe. She pulled it out and angrily threw it over the River Wye to land in Llowes churchyard.<ref>Rev. W.E.T. Morgan, Hay and neighbourhood, 1932</ref>
=== Notable people === * Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), curate of the nearby village of Clyro from 1865 to 1872. Llowes is mentioned several times in his published diaries and a sundial, inscribed in his memory, can be found in the parish churchyard.<ref>Barber, Exploring Kilvert Country {{ISBN|1-872730-24-8}}</ref> * Colonel Richard Garnons Williams (1856–1915), a British Army officer and Welsh rugby union player who represented Wales, Brecon and Newport.
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==External links== * [https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=6916138 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Llowes and surrounding area] {{Powys}}
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Category:Glasbury Category:Villages in Powys