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hips (Fig. 5). The Lower Green on the floodplain of the Severn also extended into Maesmawr township to include the Warren, and spread northwards into the fringes of Surnant and Esgob and Castle townships. The 1826 award for Caersws township itself is shown in Table 3 and Fig. 4, and that for those parts of the Caersws Greens lying outside the township in Table 4 and on a smaller scale in Fig. 5.17 The lord of the manor, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, received an allotment on each of the two Greens representing one-fourteenth part of the waste, and each allotment already contained a cottage. The greater part of the waste was allotted to landed proprietors such as Sir John Dashwood King Baronet, the Revd Offley Crewe, Charles Hanbury Tracy Esq., who had come into the Blayney estates of Gregynog in right of his wife and was later created Lord Sudeley, and Thomas James Wemyss Esq. Some of these allotments were small parcels representing the frontages of properties on to the old streets the commissioners having decided to rationalize the irregular encroachments which had earlier taken place, particularly along the main street which was laid out as road B. The curious dog-leg on road A was preserved and it was not until a few years later that the turnpike to Pontdolgoch took a more direct line northwards from the junction of roads A and B across the eastern half of the fort, when this route became more important than the more elevated road through Aberhafesp and Llanwnog.18 The larger allotments that were free from the dangers of flooding made more building land available and the Rev. Walter Davies writing in 1829 says 'of late the new town is on the increase, having a few decent houses, and three new chapels, for the accommodation of as many denominations of dissenters'.19 However a comparison of the 1826 enclosure map with that of the 1846 tithe map20 shows no substantial changes these were to take place with the coming of the railway in 1863. The railway station itself was built in the southwestern corner of the Roman camp, whilst the branch line opened in 1871 to the lead mines at Van ran westwards across the Upper Green; but most of the development was to the east where the medieval borough had been planted. TABLE 3 CAERSWS TOWNSHIP Roads Public Carriage Roads 30 feet wide A, Aa, B, C Private Carriage Roads and Public Bridleways D, E, F 18 feet wide Private Carriage Road and Public Bridleway G 12 feet wide Private Carriage Road 18 feet wide H Private Carriage Roads 12 feet wide I, K, L, M, N Private Road 6 feet wide 0 Public Footways 4 feet wide a, b, c, d, e "Details of the award for the whole of each township are given in I.E. Jones. The Arwystli (Montgomeryshire) Enclosures 1816-1828. Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, Occasional Publication No. 18 (1985). It is planned to deposit the original drawings made for this publication in the National Library of Wales. The scale of the map for Caersws township in the Llanwnog parish award is wrongly shown on it as 6 chains to an inch. as the map was actually drawn to twice this linear scale. The award is held by the community council clerk. isDue no doubt to the replacement of the old wooden bridge across the Severn by a stone one soon after Caersws Bridge was adopted as a County Bridge in 1821. ''Gwallter Mechain. "Parochial History, Llan-Wynnojj. in Montgomeryshire." Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, 1 (1829). 33. "N.L.W., Tithe Apportionment and Map. Llanwnog Parish, 1846. The valuers were the brothers, William and John Humphreys of the Rectory. Berriew. William Humphreys had been the Llanwnog enclosure award surveyor, and his father. John. one of the commissioners.