Builth Wells Rugby Football Club is a Welsh

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team based in

Builth Wells Builth Wells (; ) is a market town and community in the county of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh (or upper) part of the Wye Valley. In 20 ...

. Today, Builth Wells RFC play in the

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, Division Two West Central League. Builth Wells RFC are a feeder club for

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. The club badge shows a bull charging beneath a rugby post. Builth is thought to be a corruption of Llanfair Ym Muallt (buallt), meaning the Church of St. Mary in the Cow Pasture. The original bull was white.

Past honours

*2012–13

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- Champions *2008–09

- Promoted Runners-up *2003–04

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- Champions

Notable former players

The following players have represented Builth Wells and have been capped at international level. *

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* Mark Jones

References

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