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• f LLA.NVffiANGEL-} 104 ~ JuXTA.-ROGGIETT. :MONMOUTHSHIRE. [KELLY'B principal landowner. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, Letters through Newport arrive about 6.37 a.m. & 2.30 a great deal of limestone; the moor land is clay, with p.m.; dispatched from Roggiett office at 12.15, 6 & a little peat. The chief crops are corn; pasture lands 7.15 p.m. The neMest post & money order office is very good. The area is 559 acres ; rateable value, at Roggiett & nearest telegraph office is at Severn [1,600; the population in I9II was uo. Tunnel station, a.bout I mile distant The children of this parish attend the school at. Roggiett Beynon Owen, farmer, The Green I Keene Rees, farmer, Llanvihangel et LLANVIHANGEL- TOR· Y- MYNYDD (the David's College, Lampeter, who is also rector of Llansoy. Church of St. Michael under the Hill), on the main road There is a United Methodist chapel on the summit of from Chepstow to Raglan, is a parish 6l miles east-by the hill. C. E. Crompton Roberts esq. is principal north from Usk station on the Monmouth and Pontypool landowner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief &action of the Great Western railway, and 8 north-west crops are seeds and roots. The area is I,r86 acres; from Chepstow, in the Southern division of the county, rateable value, [743; the population in I9II was 131. hundred of Raglan, petty sessional division of Trellech, Parish Clerk, William Davis. union of Ohepstow, county court district of Usk, rural ieanery of Ghepstow, archdeaconry of Monmouth and LLANGUNNOG, a hamlet in the civil parish, and - iiocese of Llandaff. The church of St. Michael, restored which was reputed to be extra parochial for ecclesias in 186o, and again in 1908, is an ancient structure in tical purposes, was by Order in Uonncil, dated June 13, tilie Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, 1902, united to the ecclesiastical parish of Llanvihangel north-west porch and a western bell-turret containing Tor-y-Mynydd. 2 bells : there are 100 sittings. The register dates from tilie year 1592. '.Dhe living is a rectory with Llangunnog Letters through Chepstow & Usk, arrive at 9 a.m. Llani- annexed, net yearly value £78, with I6 acres of glebe shen is the nearest money order & telegraph office. and residE>nce, in the gift of the Archdeacon of Llandaff, Nearest Letter Box, Cobblers' Plain, cleared at 6 p.m and held since ·1912 by the Rev. William Jones, of St. The children attend the sehool in Llanishen parish (Marked thus* letters through Usk.) *Morgan James, Star inn *Thomas Isaac, farmer, Ty-bach COMMERCIAL. Morgan William, farmer, Corne farm *Watkins Wm. farmer, Gwerninog fm *Anstey Oliver, farmer, The Wern Price Alfred, shopkeeper *Williams James, farmer, Llanvi- Davies William, castrator Price Thomas, farmer, Llanpill hangel court & Berthgrwn farm Edmonds David, farmer & assistant *Pritchard Charles, farmer, Llan- Williams Morgan, farmer, New overseer gunnog farm Star farm Evans David, farmer, The Rectory Thomas Daniel & David, farmers, Williams Rowland, farmer Jenkins Alfred, farmer, Star hill Ty-mawr LLANVIHANGEL·nigh-USK or (Llanvi.hangel of glebe, in the gift of Sir Arthur J dhn Fludyer hart. • Gobion) is a parish and village, on the road from Man and Lady Herbert, of Llanarth Court, alternately, and mouth to Abergavenny and from Abergavenny to U sk, held since 1900 by the Rev. John Rees L.Th. of Durham and bounded on the south by the river Usk, 2 miles south University, and chaplain of Abergavenny Asylum. There east from Penpergwm railway station on the Newport, is a chapel for Calvinistic Methodists, erected in 1837 • .!bergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western and rebuilt with vestry in 1892-3, with sittings for rBo railway, 4' south-east from Abergavenny, 6 north-west persons. Charities producing about [,26 ros. yearly Me from Usk and Bl north-east from Pontypool, in the distributed in money. Isaac George esq. of Mountain Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional Ash, Glamorganshire, is lord of the manor and prin division, union and county court district of Abergavenny, cipal landowner. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, sandy. rural deanery of Raglan, archdeaconry of Monmouth and The chief crops are wheat, turnips, oats and barley, but diocese of Llandaff. The church of St. Michael is a the land is mainly devoted to pasturage. The area is •mall building of stone in the Elizabethan style, consisting g88 acres; rateable value, £67o; the population in 1911 of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower con was 105. •aining one bell: there are 120 sittings. In the church yard, nearly covered by grass, is the upper slab of a Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Llanvihangel Gobion.-Mrs. coped tombstone, on which the carved outline of a pas Mary James, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through toral staff can be faintly traced. The register dates from Abergavenny at 6.50 a. m. & 7 ·35 p.m. ; dispatched •he year 1751. The living is a rectory, with Llansantffraed at 5.25 & 7·35 p.m. No delivery or dispatch on annexed, joint net yearly value £r44, including 65 acres sun days Jones Rev. Wm. (Calvinistic Metho Gilbert James, farmer, Pen-yr-heol Jones George, farm bailiff to I. dist). The Manse, Mozerah Griffiths John, carpenter, Church vil George esq Bees Rev. John L.Th. (rector), James Mary (Mrs.\ dress ma. Post off Probert Ira, shopkeeper Llingwillim Jones Charles, registrar of births & Williams John, farmer, The Elms COMMERCIAL. deaths for the sub-district Of Williams William, beer retailer Davies Robert, miller (water) Llanarth · LLANVIHANGEL- YSTERN- L·LEWERN, or 18gr by the Rev. James Howell Bevan Powell, of Llanvihangel-Tavernbach, is a parish, on the road from Worcester College, Oxford. Here is a Baptist chapel, ' . Monmouth to Abergavenny and on the river Trothy, 5~ erected in 1829, with 150 sittings. Talycoed Court, a miles west-by-north from Monmouth, 5 north-west from large and handsome brick mansion in the Queen Anne Dingestow station on the Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool style, erected in 1882, is the seat of Col. Joseph Alfred section of the Great Western railway, and 8 from Aber- Bradney C.B., D.L., J.P., F.S.A. The Marquess of gavenny, in t'he Northern division of the county, partly Abergavenny K.G. is lord of the manor. Col. Bradney, in the hundred of Skenfrith and partly in ~at of Raglan, the trustees of the late Col. Evans, and R. A. Hewat petty' sessional division of SkenfTith, union and county esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is stiff clay; court district of Monmouth, Skenfrith highway district, subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, and rural deanery and archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese some ba.rley. The area is 1,857 acres of land and 5 of of Llandaff. Tbe church of St. Michael, restored in 1874- water; rateable value, [1,343; population in 19II, 145· 5, at a cost of £8oo, is an ancient building of stone in the Sexton, Robert J. H. Penn. Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south Letters through Monmouth, arrive at 7.45 a.m. The porch and a. turret of wood and stone, containing 3 bells : nearest money order & telegraph office is at The Hendrs there are monuments to t!he Hopkins family: the church a.fiiordfi! 1'20 sittings: the church was new roofed and Onen Wall Letter Box cleared at 5 .2o p.m • renova"ted in 1906 by the ISt Baron Llangattock, Church Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.IO p.m who also presented a staint>d window. The register Talycoed Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.Io p.m dates· from the year 1685. The living is a rectory, net Pulblic Elementary .School (infants), erected about 184o, yearly value {,164, with residence and B! acres of glebe, for 42 children; average attendance, 36; Mrs. Mary in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since .A.. Francis, mistress Bradney Col. Joseph Alfred C.B., COMMERCIAL. Griffiths Llewelyn, farm bailiff to D.L .• J.P. F.S.A. Talycoed court; Bradley Wm. Jas. wheelwright, Onen Col. J. A. Bradney C.B., D.L., &:; Boodle's club, London S W Ellaway Bros. farmrs.Mill House frm J.P., F.S . .A. Lawrence Rev. H. (Baptist) Evans ·Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Parson- Harris Jn. Jsph. farmer, Sunny bank Powell Rev. James Howell Bevan age farm Jones Evan, farmer, Pont-yr-ychan (reetor), Rectory Frances Richard, farmer, Mardy farm Jones George, farmer, Penpwllcalch • • .