[MONMOUTH.] LLANVIHANGEL. 44 [POST OFFIC:F! LI.ANVIHANGEL is a parish, now consolidated with 9 acres of glebe land, in the gift of Lord Tredegar, and held Roggiett, 8 miles south-west-by-west from Chepstow by the Rev. Richard Williams. In the parish are Sunday railway station, li from Magor and 7~ from Newport, schools and day schools, with four farmhouses, and five in Caldecot hundred, N etherwent union and county court labourers' cottages. Lord Tr.edegar is lord of the manor district of Chepstow, rural deanery of St. Bride's, Man­ and the principal landowner. The soil is sandy loam; mouth archdeaconry, Llandaff diocese, and Canterbury subsoil, 8 great deal of limestone; the moor land is clay, province: it is situated on the Bristol Channel and on with a little peat. The chief crops are corn; pasture lands the South Railway. The church is a small stone ,·ery good. The area is 557 acres; gross estimated rental, structure, having nave, chancel, and tower with I bell £1,010; rateable value, £!J29; and the population in 1861 and porch : it formerly had another aisle, which was taken was 36. down about forty years back : there were two fine stone Parish Clerk, J oseph J ames. figures discovered, much defaced and broken; no one has been able to make out the inscription upon them. The Letters through Chepstow. The nearest .money order living is a rectory, £123 yearly tithe rent-charge, with office is at Magor Edwards John, farmer, Minnetts Pride William, farmer, The Green Francis John, farmer, Turkey Tump IPybus John, farmer, Llanvihangel court

LLANVIHANGEL near USK is .a parish and Fludyer, and held by the Rev. Samuel Wright Gardner. village, distant 140 miles north-west from London, 5 south­ There is a chapel for Calvinistic Methodists. Charities, east from , 2 east from railway producing £24 yearly, are distributed in money. Sir Samuel station, 6 north-west from Usk, and 9 north-east from Fludyer, who is lord of the mauor, 'and William Herbert, Pont:ypool, in the hundred, union ami county court m;q., are the principal landowners. The soil is gravelly; district of Abergavenoy, Abergavenny, S. W. rural deanery, subsoil, sandy. The chief crops are wheat, turnips, oats Monmouth archdeaconry, Llandaff diocese, and Canterbury and barley. The area is 385 acres; gross estimated rer.ta I, province: it is situated on the roads from M on mouth to £700; rateable value, £626; and the population in 1861 Abergavenny, and from Abergavenny to Usk. The river was ll2. Usk forms the boundary of tht! parish on the south. The Par~h Clerk, Francis Edwards. church of St. Michael is 8 small stone building, having nave, chancel, square tower with I bell, and porch. The Letters through Abergavenny, which is the nenrest money living is a rectory, value £123, in the gift of Sir Samuel order office Jones Thomas, Church villa Davis Moses, miller McConnell Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Williams Thomas, Aberfrwd Edwards Francis, boot & sl10e maker McConnell William, tailor Beazer William, stone mason Jones Thomas, corn factor, Church Pritchard Geo. frmr. White House farm Davis Charlotte (Miss), beer retailer villa, & at Abergavenny \Villiams John, boot & shoe maker Davis James, wheelwright Jones William, farmer, Pen-yr-heol Williams Matthew, shopkeeper 0

LLANVIHANGEL is a parish, Cal vinistie Methodists. The Earl of Aberga venny is lord of village and railway station, and a polling place for the the manor, and he, with the Hon. William Pmvell Rodney, county, distant 163 miles north-west from London, 4i Hon. and Rev. 'flenry Rodney, E. L. Powell, esq., J.ll. north-east from Abergavenny, and 20 south-west from Rosher, esq., and Leyshon :Morgan, esq., are the principal , partly in the hundred of Skenfreth, but mostly landowners. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, g-ravel. 'l'IJC in the hundred of Abcrgavenny, union and county court chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and pasture. The area district of Abergavenny, Abergavenny rural deanery, Mon­ is 2,-899 acres; gross estimated rental, £3,273; rateable mouth archdeaconry, Llandaff diocese, and Canterbury value, £2,874; and the population in 1861 was 479. province; it is situated on the road from Abergavenny to PENHIDDLE is a h:fmlet in Llanvihangel Crucorney, half Hereford, in a valley between the Skirrid, or Holy Moun­ a mile from Pandy station. tain, and the Black Mountain. There are two railway Parish Clerk, Thomas Jones. stations in this parish, one called Llanvihangel station and the other Pandy station; they are about 2~ miles apart. PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Mary Ann Powell, receiver. r.etters The church of St. Michael, a Gothic stone building, has arrhe from Abergavenny at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.10 a nave, which was rebuilt in 18.'35, chancel, tower with 2 p.m. The nearest money order office is nt Abergavenny bells, and porch. The register dates from the year 1629. Registrar of Births~ neaths, Edwin Thomas The living is a vicarage, :yearly value £281, with resi- dence: the Hon. and Rev. Henry H.odney, M.A., of Trinity CHAPELS :- College, Cambridge, is the vicar; the H.ev. Alexander Baptist, Pandy, Rev. Daniel Davies Ferrier Hogan, B.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, is the Calvinistic Methodist, Pandy, Rev. John Davie~ curate. There is a Free school for girls and tnfants sup- Free School, Miss Louisa Rogers, mistress ported by the Hon. Mrs. Rodney; also a school for boys RAILWAY STATIONS:- above ten yearsz supported by the Re-v. A. P. Hogan. There Llanvihangel Crucorney, James Williams, station master are Sunday scnools. There are chapels for Baptists anti Pandy, Thomas Field, station master DaviesRev.John[CalvinisticMethodist] Davies Josepb, Skirrid lJfountain 1Newman John, blacksmith Hogan Rev. Alexander Ferrier, B.A. Davies Margaret (Miss), school, Pandy Parry Thomas, wheelwright [curate in charge], Vicarage Davies Thomas, farmer, Wern Giffartl Parry William, boot & shoe maker l\'lorgan Rev. 'I'heophilns [rector of Old Evans John, cowkeeper Powell John, farmer, Park farm Castle], Glanhouddu house Farr John, farmer, Penbiddle Preece Simeon, farmer; & at Blaen- Rodney Hon. William PoweiJ, J'.P. George James, stone mason . gavenny, Llantillio-Pertholey Llanvihangel court Giblett William, farmer,Pen-y-Claudd; Price William, farmer, Little Llanfrank . COMMERCIAL. & at Llantillio Pertholey Price William, tailor Addis Benjamin, farmer, Bridge 'farm, Gough Edwin, Pandy inn, Pandy Pritchard William, stone mason & at Cwmyoy Griffithil William, farmer Prosser Roger, boot & shot: maker Addis James, farmer, Cherry orchard Harrison Lewis, miller Roherts Thoma~, timber dealer Addis John, farmer, Lower Stanton, & Home Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Silver Henry, farmer, Pen-y-dree at Cwmyoy Howells James, farmer, Llanerch Smith James, wheelwright Arth ur John, cooper Howells John, blacksmith Thomas Edwin, shopkeeper & registrar Bevan David, farmer, Uppm· Stanton Jenkins David Lancaster Arms of births & deaths Bevan Thomas, spade tree maker Jones Frederiek, farmer • Thomas Richard, boot & shoe maker Bowley William, farmer, Cefn farm JonesHannah(Mrs.),farmer,Pwllymeer Watkins Richard, farmer, Gt.Llanfrank Cowles Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer; & at Jones John, farmer, Pen~iddle WheelerCecila(Mrs.),farmr.Giandwr tin Llantillio-Pertholey & Llanthewy J ones Thomas, shopkeeper Williams George, farmer, Whit.c house Skirrid, Abergavenny • J ones William, farmer, Great Penbiddle Williams Isaac, farmer, Pen park Da vies J ames, farmer M organWilliam, farmer, Penishyplwydd Williams Mary( Mrs. ),farmer, Penbiddle

LLANVIHANGEL-LLANTARNAM is a parish union nnd county court district of Newport, Usk rural and railwny station, 4 miles north from Newport, and 2 deanery, Monmouth arcbdeaeonry, Llandaff diocese, and north-west-by-west frbm Caerleon, in the hundred of U sk, Canterbury province; it is situated betwef!n the turnpike • -