River Lugg River Lugg The River Lugg () rises near Llangynllo, Powys. It flows through the border town of Presteigne, Wales then through Herefordshire, England, to the south of Leominster where it meets a tributary, the River Arrow. Its confluence with the River Wye is at Mordiford, downstream of Hereford and from its source. Below Leominster the river was made navigable under the "River Wye & Lugg Navigation Act 1696" for improving the River Wye, and had pound locks. Despite several attempts to improve it, including making flash locks against bridges, the river was probably never a satisfactory navigation. Commercial navigation probably
St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye St Mary's (also St Mary the Virgin) is an Anglican parish church in Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire, Powys, Wales. Separated by a deep dingle, which probably was formerly a moat, it is situated westward of the town upon an almost precipitous eminence, near to the River Wye. An earlier church, dedicated to St. John, called Eglwys Ifan, appears from the "Notitia Cambro-Britannica", to have been in good repair in 1684, and then used as a school-house. This building partly fell down about the year 1700, and was never repaired, though part of it was later used as a