DIRECTORY.] MONMOUTHSHIRE. GOYTREY. 77

Moses Emily (Mrs.), refreshment Rissi Bros. refreshmnt. rms. High st Treasure David J. solicitor, High st rooms, High street *Stephens Lewis & Sons, farmers, White William, news agent, High st Munitz l'hillip, watch maker, High st Gelli haf Wilcox George, boot maker, High st National Provincial Bank of England Sumption Willia.m C.,M.P.S. chemist Williams Daniel, joiner & builder Limited (sub-branch), o~n wed. Thomas & Co. drapers, High street Williams George, butcher, High st 10 e.m. to Ilil.3o p.m *Thomas .Arthur E. S. solr. Gelly haf Williams George, grocer, Post office Parish Hall, St. David's Thomas William, farmer, Brynysgafn Williams Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer rhillips Ann (Mrs.), Tredegar Arms Thomas William, stationer, High st Yeo William, joiner & builder P.H 'l'reasure David, colliery owner Yeo William Albt. grocer,Victoria rd Powell John, boot repr. Victoria road • FREEHOLDLAND, see Pontnewynydd. GARNDIFFAIT11, see . ~LASCOED, "See Usk. GOLDCLIFF is a parish on the Bristol channel, 3~ and held since 1900 by the Rev. John Price, of St. Bees, ndles south from Llanwern station on the South who is also vicar of and resides at Whitsou. Here is a st-ction of the Great Western railway, 149! from London, Congregational chapel, erected in 1835, and rebuilt and and 6 south-east from Newport, in the Southern division enlarged in 1900: it will now seat 200 persons. On of the county, Lower division of Caldicot hundred, petty Goldclifi hill, and about a mile from the church, are sessional division of Christehurch, union and county court the remains of the Benedictine priory of SS. Mary and district of Newport, rural deanery of Caerle~n, arch- Mary Magdalen!l\ founded in III3 by Robert Chandos; deaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff; a high it was first a cell of Bee, and afterwards of Tewkesbury ; sea wall, erected to prevent the irruption of the tide, the Welsh drove out the monks between 144lil and 1446 ; skit·ts one side of the parish. The church of St. Mary the revenues were estimated at £114 yearly. The prin­ l\Iagdahme is an ancient building of stone in the Early cipal landowners are the Provost and Fellows of Eton English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, College, who are the lords of the manor, Messrs. Power, and an embattled western tower containing one bell; in lordR of Porton, Messrs. Henry Oakley, Alfred Jones, the chancel there is a mural brass thus inscribed: Rev. 0. Vassall-Phillips, J. R. Webb and G. C. Williams "On the 2oth day of January, 16o6, even as it came to esq. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The land i!r pass, it pleased God the flood did flow to the edge of this wholly in pasture. The area is 2,192 acres of land; same brass, and in this parish there was lost £s,ooo in rateable value, £4,112; population in 1911, 266. stock &c. besides 22 people was in this parish drowned. Parish Clerk, Nichols Watkins. "G ld ·l"ff {John Wilkins, of Pill Rew • Letters through Newport, arrive at 9 a. m. ; dispatched 0 1 c e "'"ll'n 1 1am T ap, a t 4· 10 p.m. Th e nearest money ord er & t e1 egrap b Churchwardens. 16og." office is at Magor The church has 1oo sittings. The register of baptisms Public Elementary School (mixed), for the parishes of and burials dates from the year 172 8; marriages, 1729. Goldcliff & Whitson, erected in 1872, for 6o children; The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £go, including avr-rage attendance, 39; Mrs. Gilbert Henley, mistrt>ss 38 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, County Constable, Enoch Parry Watkins Wi!liam Hy. The Moorlands Jones Watkin, farmer, Porton W:alters Wm. farmer, Lower Pill bo COMMERCIAL. Keyte Richard, farmer, & agent to the Waters Annie (Mrs.), farmer, The Cnllimore Sarah (Mrs.), temperance . lords of P01·ton, Porton Grange farm · hotel, Goldcliff hill Keyte William, farmer, Porton Waters Claridge, farmer, Level hous& Edwards Osborne, butchr.Goldcliff ho Knight Charles, farmer Waters James, farmer, Saltmarsh Fennell Percy, fisherman, Hill fishery Morgan Edgar, farmer, The Grove Waters William, agent for the Eton Gale David, farmer,Chestnut.t Tree fm farm & Samsons court college, collector of level rate for G1ll Ernest, Farmers' Arms P.H Phillips Martha (Miss), farmer, the commissioners of sewers, in- Green John Clifford, frmr. Hill farm Great Newra come tax collector & assistant over~ Hale Charles, dairyman Price Godfrey, frmr. Red House farm seer, 'fyneydd house Huggett Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Roberts Osborne, farmer Williams Thomas, farmer· Saltmarsh Roberts Sidney, farmer Williams William, shoe maker Jenldns John, farmer, Saltmarsh Roberts William, farmer, Porton WilliamR Wm. Hy. farmer, Henton GOYTREY is a parish on the river Usk, which bounds occupied by Lieut.-Col. Edward Boustead Cuthbertson it on the south-east, with a station called Nantyderry M.V.O. was erected in 1446 for Thomas Herbert, son on the Abergavenny and Hereford branch of the of the Earl of Pembroke, who lived at Raglan Castle, Great Western railway, 5 north-east from , 1 and was once the residence of a family of Jenkins, now 4 north-west from Usk, and 166! by rail from London, extinct in the male line, but lineally descended from in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Gwaethford, a chieftain who in ancient times owned Abergavenny, petty sessional division and union of a considerable territory here; the Jenkins property Pontypool, county court district of Usk, and in the rural now belongs to Mrs. Charles Williams. The Marquess deanery of Raglan, archdeaccmry of Monmouth and of Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the manor, John diocese of Llandaff; the Brecon and Monmouth Canal and Cape! Hanbury esq. of Llanvair Grange, Llanvair­ the road from Pontypool to Monmouth and Abergavenny Kilgidin, the trustees of the late Lady Llanover, and pass through the parish. The church of St. Peter, rebuilt the trustees of the late Col. Henry Charles Byrde­ in 1845 and 1846 at a cost of about £1,400, from designs .(d. :;:895), are the prindpal landowners. The soil is by Thomas Wyatt esq. of London, is an edifice of local gravel and sand; subsoil, loam. The chief crops are stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 3•332 acres nave, south porch and a western belfry containing 2 bells; of land and r6 of water; rateable value, £1,507 land, there is an ancient font, reputed to be of .Saxon origin, £4,530 buildings ; population in 1911, 706. and restored in 1856, and in the vestry an ancient oak Sexton, George Jones. chest; the organ was presented by the Misses Evans, of Letters IU'rive from Pontypool at 8.55 a. m. weel;: days. Nantyderry, in 1886; within the communion rails are ()nly buried the members of the ancient family of Jenkins, Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, of Goytrey Hall: in 1903 the east window was filled Na.ntyderry. Mrs. Martha Jane Lloyd, sub-post- with stained glass, as a memorial to the Rev. Thomas postmistress. Letters arrive from Abergavenny at Ernns, a former rector, and there is another, placed in 7.5o a.m. & are dispatched at 4·55 p.m. week days 1904, to Henry Charles and Rebecca Byrde: an oak only; sundays, 8.30 to 10 a.m. for stamps & telegrams screen was placed under the chancel arch in 1907 in only. Wall Letter Box, Prengroesoped, cleared at memory of the late Richard Augustus Byrde, and in 5.20 p.m. week days only 1908 an oak reredos was erected in the chancel in Post Office, Penjellenny.-Willia.m Jackson, sub-post- memory of Mr. F. W. G. and Mrs. Chalklen: there master. Letters arrive from Pontypool at 8.10 a.m. are 290 sittings. The churchyard contains several fine & 6 p.m. & are dispatehed at 9 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. yew trees, two of which are upwards of 30 feet in week days only; closed at 1 pm. on thursday. circumference. The register dates from the year 1695. Nantyderry is the nearest money order & telegraph The living is a rectory, net yearly value £195, with 1~ office. Wall Letter Box, Newtown, cleared 8.30 a.m. acres of g-lebe, in the gift of the Marquess of Aber- & 6.10 p.m. week days only g-avenny K.G. and held since 1903 by-the Rev. Joseph Public Elementary School, Penpellenny (mixed), erected. Davies, of St. Bees. The Rectory house was erected in with master's residence, in 1870, on a site given by the 1893 on land purchased from John Capel Hanbury esq. late Col. H. C. Byrde J.P. at a cost of£6oo,forabout of . There are Baptist and Calvinistic 120 children; enlarged in 1908 to a.ccommodate .154; :Methodist chapels. Here are quarries of limestone, average attendance, 147; William John Croot, master paving stone and building stone. Goytrey Hall, now Railway Station, Nantyderry, Edwd. Spencer,statn. mstr-