IMONMOUTH.] LLANDENNY, 34 ( fOST OFFICf~ James John, ;r.P. Lansoar J ones John, boot & shoe maker Morgan Jolm, farmer, Walnut tree

Wofsley Capt. Arthur, Wain-y-Pwll Jones John, farmer, The Buildings· Rogers John, butcher & cattle doctor • Arthur Thomas, blacksmith J ones Watkin, carpenter&; wheelwright Waters Charles, farmer Harris Joseph, farmer, Court Perrett Leonard John, farmer, Pen-y-Lan Williams William~ shopkeeper

LLANDENNY is a parish, distant 146 miles west from and mistress. There are chapels for Baptists and I ndeprn~ London and 4 north-east from railway station, in the hun­ dents. Charitie!l amounting to £GB are distributed yearly dred of Raglan, union of , Raglan and Trelleck in bread and money. When General Fairfax attacked highway district, county court district of Usk, Usk deanery Raglan Castle he made Cefn Tilla hi~ head-quarters: this (East division), archdeaconry of Monmouth, diocese of old mansion was rebuilt, and, together with the property Llandaff, and province of Canterbury: it is situated on the belonging to it, was presented to tbe present Lord Raglan in right hank of the Ebbw. on the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk grateful recognition of his father's memory. The Duke o.r and Pontypool Railway, and road to Monmouth. The Beaufort is lord of the manor. The principal landowners church of St. John is an ancient stone building: it has nave, are the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Ra~lan, Sir George chancel, and tower with 6 bells, and porch : the church was Chetvrynd, hart., and J. A. Rolls, esq. The soil is loam; restored in the year 1865. The living is a vicarage, in the subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and he!lns. The gift of the Duke of Beaufort and held by the Rev. Arthur area is 2,228 acres; gross estimated rental, £2,863; rateable 1\fontague Wyatt, of St. David's College, Lampeter, and walue, £2,518; and the population in 18G1 was 418. St. Peter's College, Cambridge; the Rev. George Hanbury PariBh Clerk, William Davis. Fielding, of Lincoln College, Oxford, is tbe curate. The • great tithes have been commuted at £330, the whole of which goes to the impropriator and patron. There is ~ Letters through U sk, which is the near~st money (}rder office National school for boys and girls, with house for master Railway Station, William Pugh, station master Cadogan Miss Evans Temperance (~r~.), farmer, Jones Thomas, beer retailer &; farmer, Matthews James Treworgan court & agent for the South Coal Raglan The Right Hon. Lord, Cefn Evans William, farmer, Rhyd-y-mane Company, &; for Goulding's manure Till a house Fletcher Geo. carpenter & wheelwright J ones Thomas, shoe maker, Kingcoed COMMERCIAL. Frost Joseph, farmer, Newhouse Morgan Thoma~ shoe maker Bigham Rachel (Mr~.), farmer, George-Gwatkin, farmer Morris James, shoe maker Llanerthil H aggett Wm. P. The Crown, & butcher Powell Edward, farmer, Colebrook Bigham Thos. farmer, Treworgan court H olmes Thomas, farq1er, The Wharfs Pritchard J olm, farmer, Pergoed

Brown John, coal merchant James William, farmer, Churckf&rm Rowlands William, farmer • Davies

. LLANDOGO is a parish and village, 7~ miles soutl1- villnge, which is surrounded by scenery so beautiful that it south-east from Monmouth and 9 from , in the cannot be easily surpassed by any in EnglaJld. The Duke hundred of Raglan, Monmouth union and county court dis- of Beaufort is lord of the manor and principal landowner. trict, Raglan and Trelleckhighway district, N etherwent rural The- soil is clay. Tlw chief crops are wheat, barley a~d deanery, .M:onmouth archdeaconry, Llandaff diocese, and oats. The area is 1,843 acres; gross estimated rental, province of Canterbury. It is situated on the , £'J,44l; rateable value, £2,068; and the population in, and on the right of the new road from Monmouth to Chep- 1861 was 648. stllw. 'l'h~: church of St. Odoceus, which has been recently .Parish Clerk, Edward Phillips. rebuilt, is a Got hie stone building: it has a nave, aisles, -- chancel and tower with 2 bells and porch. The living is a PosT O.FFICE.-Mrs. Anne William~, receiver. Letters vicarage, with Wbitebrook annexed, £112 yearly tithe rent- are received through Colefurd, arrive at 9 a.m.; dis- charge, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaft', and Iheld by patched at 4.50 p.m. The nearest money order office is the Rev. Richard William Ferguson, M .A., of Queen's Col- at Tin tern lege, Oxford. There is a National school for boys and girls. PosT OFFICE, .-James Hodges, receiver. At WHITEBROOK is a chapel of ease, with school. There Letters from Monmouth arrive at 9 a.m •. ; dispatched at are chapels for Baptists. The Falls, commonly called the Llandogo Falls, and sometimes the Cleddon Shoots, corn- 5 p.m mence at the top of a. steep, wooded hill, and the waters, National School, Mrs. Mary Ann Hodges, mistress in rainy seasons, rush down in most curious shapes to the National School, Whitebrook, Edwarq Morgan, master Fer~uson Rev. Richard Wm. H.A. Carpenter John, boot & shoe maker Miller Brothers, lessee1 of the Wye & VIcarage . Dale James, farmer. Whitebrook Severn salmon fisheries . Gallen!a Antomo, esq. The Falls Fisk Thomas boot & shoe maker Morgan John, Bell inn, & miller Knox ady G reen ""•· c'o. paper manlUac.. c. t urers, Seaward Maria (Mrs.), Crown inn Mill er Th omas Femdale mill Watkins Michael, boot & shoe maker Morton Rev. Samuel W. Coedy-thyll Hodges Amos carpenter Williams George, master mariner COMMERCIAL L J ' h & d William" Thomas, Ship inn B r1s· 1an d M ary .An n (M rs. )., Sloop mn. ongman osep , grocer raller Williams" William, farmer, Pilston farm

. LLANELI.EN is a parish and small village, 2 miles is aN ational school for boys and girls. Here is a quarrJ; the south from railway station, in Ponty- stone is used for building purposes. A part of the Blorenge pool hundred, union and county court district of Aber- Mountain is within this parish. The Earl of Abergavenny gavenny, Abergavenny rural deanery, Monmouth nrch- and Colonel Kemeys-Tynte are lords of the manor, and deaconry, Llandaffdiocese, and Canterbury province.: it is these, with Mr. J. T. Wilson, are the principal landowner11. situated on the road from Abergavenny to Pontypool. The The soil is loamy; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are parish is bounded on the east and north by the river Usk, wheat, oats, barley, with some land in pastl1re. 'l'he area over which is a stone bridge of three arches. The !\-Ion- is 2,536 acres; g-ross estimated rental, £2,191; rateable mouth shire Canal runs through from north to south. The value, £1,9"25; and the population in 1861 was 373. church of St. Helen is a Gothic stone building, repaired in 1840: it has nave, chancel, and turret, with 2 bells. The register dates from about the year 1760. The living is a Letters through Abergavenny~ which is the nearest money vicarage, value £132, with residence, in the gift of Colonel order office Kemeys-Tynte, and held by the Rev. William J ones. There National School, Miss Mary Jane Wheeler, mistress Brewer Edgar, Llanellen house H arris Ft:ancis, farmer, Ogran Jenkins 'V alter, cotta!1:e farmer .. Jonlils Rev. William [vicar] Haycock George, farmer Jones Henry/. farmer, Baili-glas col\IMERCIAL. James James, farmer, & at Jones John~ tarmer, Upper Cwm Davies William, beer retailer James Thomas, carpenter, Eai,li-ijlas Jones Methuselah, contractor, Lower .Edmunds Lewis, plasterer James William, cottage farmer Heol Gerrig , Grijfiths Richard, cottage farmer J enkins James, farmer, Cefu-y-coed JonesWalter,cottage farmer,Newynydd Gwillim William, farmer, Cwm-Mawr Jenkins John, farmert Craig-yr-hayod Jones William, farmer, Glan-Usk farr\1

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