124 NEWCBURCH. MONMOUTHSHIRE. (KELLrS

NEWCHURCH EAST and WEST together form all that now remains of the ancient forest of W entwood, a parish anciently known as "Eglwys-newydd-ar-y-Cefn" is in Newchurch West, and here are the ruins of the and now include the chapelry of Devauden, in the Southern Castle of Troggy, or Cas Troggy, so called from the division of the county, upper division of the hundred of rivulet of that name, which has its source near the castle. Caldicot, petty sessional division and union of Chepstow, The ascription of the name of Strigul by Camden and rural deanery of Chepstow, archdeaconry of Monmouth, some other writers to this castle has doubtless arisen • and diocese of Llandaff. East Newchurch is in the from a corruption of the name of Cas Troggy or Stroggy, county court district of Chepstow and West Newchurch and has given rise to much confusion between this place in that of Usk. The parish, which is intersected by the and the real Strigul or Chepstow. Troggy Castle is said road from Chepstow to Usk, is 6! miles north-west from t{) have been built in the reign of Edward I. by Roger the Chepstow and 7! south-east from Usk stations, on Bigod, Earl of Norfolk. W. E. Carne Curre esq. of the Great Western railway. The church, occupying a Itton Court, who is lord of the manor and impropriator, bhmk elevation on the northern side of the parish, is a and Lt.-Col. C. M. Crompton-Roberts, of Drybridge, buihling of stone, repaired in r865; it is in the Early are the principal landowners. The soil is loam and sand; English style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch subsoil, gravel and sandstone grit. The chief crops are and a western tower containing r bell; the Decorated grain and roots. The area is, Newchurch East, 3,399 east window is stained; the church has been thoroughly acl'es of land and 3 of water; rateable value, £1,495; modernized, but presents no features of interest; there and the population in 19II was 333; Newchurch West, al"e uo sittings. The register of baptisms and burials 2,098 acres; rateable value, £r,40J; the population in dates from the year 1710; marriages, 1755. The living 19II was n6; the population of the ecclesiastical parish is a vicarage, net yearly value £.III, with II acres m0 I9II was 449· of gleJ?e and r€sidence, in the gift of ·W. E. C. Curre Post Office, Devauden Green. John Thomas, sub-post­ esq. of Itton Court, and· held since 1913 by the Rev. master. Letters through Chepstow, arrive at 8.10 Daniel Mathias B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. a.m. ; dispatched 8.20 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. week days The chapel of ease in DEVAUDEN is a plain building only. St. Arvans is the nearest money order & tele­ with a belfry containing one bell, and has an endowm€nt graph office, 3 miles distant of [.32 yearly, which is in the gift of and is at present Wall Letter Box at Newchurch West, cleared at 4·55 held by the vicar of Newchurch; it has 120 sittings. p.m.; & at Glyn, 5.20 p.m. week days only There ar€ chapels for Wesleyan Methodists at Pen-y- cae-mawr, at the Glyn, at Devauden, and for Welsh Public Elementary Schools. Methodists at Gaerlwydd. Devauden, anciently Ddefaw- don, two miles north-€ast from the parish church, is Council, Newchurch West (mixed), opened in r89o, for said to have been the place where the Britons were 66 childr€n; average attendance, 29; Mrs. Mitchell, overwhelm€d and utterly defeated by the combined mistress forces of the Saxon monarchs, Ethelbald of Mercia Devauden, rebuilt, with house for mistress in 1870, all and Cuthred of Wessex, in 743 . Various Roman coins a cost of about £5oo, for Bo children; av€rage attend- of Antoninus and others were found at Devauden green ance, 62; Mrs. G. Evans, mistress in 1840. There is a fine cromlech at Gaerlwydd. These schools are controlled by II managers; J. W. In this parish there is a very extensive British camp, Stanton, 16 & 17 Welsh street,Chepstow, correspondent known as Gaer-fawr-the great fortification-occupying The endowment of the former schools is now applied to a position of great natural strength upon the spur of a purposes connected with the present schools ; both the hill; this camp has an outer and inner vallum of stones chapel & former endowed school were first established and earth and extends over nearly twenty acres. Chep- mainly through the exertions of Jarnes Davies, then stow Park, a wood of about 3,ooo acres, is near here, village schoolmaster, the story of whose untiring zeal and contains a reservoir for the Chepstow waterworks. in the cause of religion & education has boon more A considerable portion of the extensive wooded district, than once published NEWCHURCH EAST. Remnant William, farmer, Coedclivas Hughes Henry, farmer, Tredegar frm Mathias Rev. Daniel B.A. (vicar), Roberts John, jun. farmer, Tydee frm Jeffreys William, farmer, Gaerlwydd Vicarage, Devauden Roberts Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer, Jeremiah James, fanner, Wentwood COMMERCIAL. Lower Glyn farm .Tones E-dgar, farmer, Wentwood Bevan Julia (Miss), farmer, Wern Scard Thomas, farmer, Panta farm Mitchell Fredk. Jno. market gardenr house, Glyn Waiters .Tames, mason Morgan James, farmer, Goytra little Edmunds John, farmer, Pen-y-park Watkins John, farmer, Pwltecat Morgan John, farmer, Gethley farm Harris Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer,Glyn Williams M_ary (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Park Charles, farmer, Church farm Harris Owen, fanner Veddw Price George, farmer, Wentwood Harris Percy, farmer, The Trap Price .Tacob, farmer, Wentwood Hill Herbt. Jas. frmr. The Dorratts NEWCHURCH WEST. Price Sarah (Mrs.), frmr. Folley farm James Wm. & Jn.frmrs.The Neck fm Williams Mrs. Ann, The Bungalow, Richards John, Fox & Hounds P.H Jones Alfred, farmer, Coedclivas Gaerlwydd Raper Wm. Hy. frmr. Red House f',.,rmm Lewis Charles, game dealer, Glyn Spinney James, farmer, Buckwell frm Morgan Hubert, farmer, Newhouse fm COMMERCIAL. Weekes James,farm bailiff to Thomas Morgan Mary (Mrs.), Mason's Arms Birden Richard, farmer, Priory farm ~r.aithwaite esq. Goytra . P.H. Devauden Braithwaite Bernard Leigh farmer Wllhams Geo. farmer, Gra1gamaster Prioo Thos. Hy. farmr. Gaer Hill ho Great house ' ' Williams Herbert, farmer, Penyrhoel Prosser Isaac, farmer Harris Danl. farmer, Blackbird farm 1 • NEWPORT NEWPORT 1s a seaport ana market town, the head of banks, the great rise and fall of the tides and the a. petty sessional division, union and county court dis· passag-e of vessels to the various docks, the difficulty trict, and a parliamentary, municipal and county borough, of devising a suitable means of communication is great, comprising the old borough and parts of the parishes of but has now been overcome by the erection in 1903 of • St. Woollos, Christchurch, and Nash and Maindee, with a ': Transporter Bridge," on the plan of those in use a station on the Great Western (South Wales) line, 158! at Bilbao and Rouen, and situated about a mile and a miles from London by rail and 148 by road, 23 south­ half from the old bridge. It consists of a horizontal west from Monmouth, 12 north-east from Cardiff, 17! railway track support€d by a bridge spanning the south-west from Chepstow, 45! east from Swansea, 44! channel or river to be crossed, at such a height as will south-west from Gloucester, 40 south-west from Here­ allow the tallest roasted ships using the channel to fCird, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of pass underneath without striking their upper masts; a Wer:tloog, rural deanery of Newport, archdeaconry of car or travelling frame runs on this railway, and is Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff: it is seated on the arranged so as to move freely in a longitudinal direc­ river U sk, 4 miles from its junction with the river Severn. tion and to allow of being arrested or reversed at will ; A stone bridge of five arches, erected in the year r8oo, by a platform or carrier of suitable dimensions suspended David Edwards and his two sons, and widened and im. from the travelling frame is hung at the level of the proved in 1886 and 1882-3, crosses the river Usk in a banks of the river or channel to be crossed. The frame line with the High street and near the old castle. and car are propelled by steel wire ropes wound on a The rapid growth of the town of recent years, more drum worked by electric motors, erected at one end especially on the eastern side and below the bridge, of the bridge p.Iatform ; the rate of speed is ro feet per has created a nood for the better means of cross-river second, and the bridge is designed for a proof load of communication, but on account of the steepness of the 66 tons in addition to its own weight. · M. A.rnodin, of