DIRECTORY.] . MALP AS. Jones John, Royal Oak P.H Meyrick Ernest, grocer Rogers Edward, farmer, Ysguborfacb Jones Richard, draper Morgan Lewis, fat'ID.er, Blaencook frm Shapland William Jn. H. corn mer Jones Rose (Mrs.), blacksmith, National Provincial Bank of England Sheppard Mark, Tredegar Arms P.ll Lower Limited, open tues. IO to I p.m.; Smith Sidney, farmer, Craig-yr-haul Jones William Henry, general dealer draw on head office, 15 Bishops- Smith William George, cycle dealer KellowEiizh.Ann(Mrs.),WhiteHartP.H gate, London E C Stedman Alfred George, draper, Kellow John, Lewis Arms P.H Newport Co-operative Industrial So- Bradford house Lewis Lewis, farmer, Rhydygwern ciety Limited Stephen John, farmer Lewis Morgan, farmer, Blain-y-cwm Osmond-Barnard .Benjamin M.B., Stephens David Rees, shopkeeper Llewellyn Thos. coal mer.The Court C.M.Edin. medical officer of health Stephens Jane (Miss), grocer Lloyd Wm. R. farmer, Gellewastad to the Bedwas &; Machen Urban Stratton Fredk. farmer, Plas Machen, Lloyds Bank Limited, open tues. District Council IO.I5 a.m. to I2.15 p.m.; draw on Pentwyn Colliery Co. Limited, Thomas Arth.Knight,frmr.Nantycysha head office, 71 Lombard· street, colliery proprietors Thomas Miriam (Mrs.), general dealr London E C Potter John, linen draper W atkins J oseph, grocer London & Provincial Bank Limited Potter John Arthur, collector of Webb Sarah Helens (Mrs.), grocer, & (sub-branch) (D. Elias, manager), water rates to the Bedwas &; post office, Lower Machen open mon. 12 to 2.45 p.m.; fri. Machen Urban District Council, Williams Frederick Penry, Fwirwm- - . 9.15 to 2.45 p.m.; draw on head The Croft Ishta P.H office, 3 Bank buildings, Londo.n Pritch8ird Lemuel, farmer, Penylan Woodruff T. P. & Co. iron founders E C &; lHyn, Mills, Currie & Co Reading Rooms (Mrs. Jane Harris, Young Thomas, assistant overseer & Machen Stone & Lime Co. Limited caretaker) collector of rates for Lower Machen, (The), Lower Machen Roberts Cornelius, farmer, Ty-Canol Lower Machen • MAES-Y -CWMMER, see Bedwas. MAGOR is a parish, with a station on the South 1.45 p.m.;' dispatched at 12.Io & 7.15 p.m. N(} section of the Great Western railway, I49! miles from delivery on sundays London and 8 east from Newport, in the Southern division · MAGOR RURAL DISTRICT COUNCil·. of the county, Caldicot hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Newport, rural deanery The district comprises the following parishes : , Gf Netherwent, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Christchurch, Goldcillf, Kemeys Inferior, Llandavenny, Uanda:ff. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, restored in Llangattock, Llangstone, , , 1868, is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular , , Magor, Nash, , Redwick, style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, quasi transepts, , & . The area is 2g,6o2 south porch with parvise and a central tower containing acres; rateable value at Lady Day, ·1913, £63,905; a clock and 6 bells: there are 400 sittings, all being the population in I9II was 4,849 free. The register dates from the year 1799. The living The Council meets at the Newport Union offices, Queen's is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Redwick hill, N .;wport, on the second 'Wednesday in every annexed, j(}int net inc(}me £210, with 96 acres of glebe month at 2.30 p.m and residence, in the gift of the Bish(}p of Llandaff, and Chairman, Th(}mas Dutfield J.P. The Laurels, Magor, held since 1912 by the Rev. Henry M(}rris, of St. David's Newport College, Lampeter. Here is a Baptist chapel to . hold Clerk, Alfred H. Rees, Queen's hill, Newport 300. Lord Tredegar, who is lord of th~ manor, Mrs. Treasurer, W. I. Duke Williams, National Provincial Perry-Herrick, of Beaumanor Park, Leicestershire, Mrs. Bank, Newport Way and Mrs. England are the principal landowners. Medical Officer of Health, Waiter Evelyn James L.R.C.P. The soil is marshy; subsoil, clayey. The chief crops Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. Troed-y-Rhiw Fau, Newbridge are wheat, barley, rGots and grass land. The area is Highway Surveyor, Charles Dutfield, Whitewall, Magor x,899 acres; rateable value, £5,360; the population in Inspector (}f Nuisances, William Keene, The Garn, Tre- xgu was 473 in the civil and 6]9 in the ecclesiastical dunnock · parish. Public Elementary School (mixed), built in I857• for I20 Parish Clerk, William Rosser. children, & enlarged in 1902 to hold X91 children; Post, M. 0. & T. Office. James Griffiths, sub-post­ average attendance, 6o; Joseph Bolt, master master. Letters arrive from Newport at 6.40 a.m. & Railway Station, George Edward H(}wells, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Berrows Thomas William, commercial Lewis Arthur, farmer, Wain-arrow Dutfield Charles, Rose cottage traveller, Summerlease Madley Caleb, farmer, Pill farm Dutfield Thomas J.P. The Laurels Brown James, farmer Matthews Frederick, blacksmith Ga k M" Th L Dutfield Chas. road-surveyor to Magor Phillips Benj .frmr. Upper Grange frm M s ~ 11 R Iss, e a~n f M & Rural District Council, Whitewall Phillips Kate (Mrs.), farmer OrriS t e~. Hen? c;l~rdo . k)agofh Edwards Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Read Joel, farmer, Salisbury farm· 0 t~rpe ua cura e e WIC ' e George Matilda (Mrs.), New inn Smith John, farmer & market gardnr ICaraGge R b t M B B S Griffiths James, grocer, &; post office Vaughan & Strong, physicians & Strong raven or 0 er · · • · · Hargest J ames grocer surgeons Lond Hunt fhomas, ' carpenter Waugh Eliza (Mrs.), farmr.Magor fm COMMERCIAL. Jenkins Thomas, carpenter Wellington Thos. corn & coal dealer A.dams Thomas Hawkesford, tailor Jenkins James, farmer & collector of Williams Abel Wood,Wheatsheaf inn A.dams William, cooper rates &; assistant overseer & clerk Williams Arthur, farmer, Tythe farm Alien Henry, blacksmith & ironmongr to the Parish Council Williams Edwin, Golden Lion inn Baker Arthur Robert, butcher Jones Stephen, farmer Williams Herbert, mason Baker Stephen Leonard, farmer, Low Jones William Henry & Son, Williams Mattie (Mrs.), farmer_, Grange farm farmers, Whitewall ~ Castlecoch

MAINDEE, see Newport. ::M:AI·P AS is a parish r! miles north-by-west from New­ J enkins M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. Malpas Court port railway station, in the Southern division of the is the seat of Francis Thomas Egerton Prothero esq. county, hundred of Wentloog, Newport petty sessional ~LA., J.P. Here was formerly a Cluniac m(}nastery, a division, union and county court district, rural deanery cell to the priory of Montacute, in Somersetshire, and of Newport, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of founded by Winebald de Balun ; at the Dissolution there Llanda:ff. The and Shrewsbury railway, the were two monks, and the revenues amounted to £,14 a Brecon canal and the and Newport road year : a part of (}De of the walls, still standing, serves pass through the parish. The church of .St. Mary is an as a boundary to the churchyard. F. T. E . .Prothero edifice of stone, rebuilt in the years 1849-50, in the Early esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The Norman style, and consists of chancel and nave and a soil is clay ; subsoil, gravel and :rocl... The cropa &re western bell turret containing one bell: the original fine chiefly grass and corn. The area iJ. -975 acres of land,., chancel arch is preserved, as also the remarkable south Io of water, 4 of tidal water and j .of< .foreshore; rate.. doorway, where the pillars supporting the arch on either able value, £5,330; the populatioiJ. o.ln :tgu was 6S5. side have no similarity to each other in pattern : there Sexton, John Hodgkinson. _• are x8o free sittings. The register dates from the year Post &; M. 0. & Telephone Call Ofiir& Dobbs, 1733. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £3oo, sub-postmaster. Latters through,_ arrive at with residence and 40 acres of glebe, in the gift of Francis 7 a.m. & 4 p.m. ; dispatched at I & 4 & 7·55 Prothero esq. and held since 1873 by the Rev. Edward p.m. ; sundays, letters only, .rri .m. • , di.S•