DIRECTORY.] 83 PONTYPOOI.. [MONMOUTH.] in the parish, recently built. Near the parish church Ilandowners are Lord Tt·edegar.. Col. Wood, Dean and are the traces of an old floating dock, and a market Chapter of Bristol aod Col. Kemeys-Tynte, of Cefn 1\Iably. ltouse with store houses, &c., where extensive trade must The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are have flourished some centuries 11go : many of the old pasture, corn and beans. The area i~ 3,23-! acret; gross inhabitants of the parish remember the foundations of houses estimated rental, £5,267; rateable value, £4,232; and the hauled out to make the preMent roads with : the ancient population in 1861 was 180. town with many of its inhabitants was destroyed by Hoods Parish Clerk, Edmund Harris. ea~ by the embankments of the sea not being kept in repair. Lord Tredegar, Col. Wood, and the Dean and Letters through Caroiff, which is the nearest money. order Chapter of Bristol are lords of the manor. The principal office: Pillar box in the village Baker James, farmer, Orchard farm Morris Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Chapman Williams Ann(Mrs.),furmer,Tyn-y-pill EvansJane (Mrs.), farmer, Newhouse Phillips William J. Railway hotel Willia.ms Dan, farmer, Millditcb Hughes John, farmer Price Thomas, farmer, Sluice farm Williams David, farmer, Broad Street JonesAnu( Mrs. ),farmer ,Carn-y-wynge Ree.ce Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Newlwuse Common farm Jones James, farmer, White house Reece Philip, farmer, Red house Williams Willlam, farmer, Gout farm Jones Jane (Miss), Six Bells inn Reece Thoma~ farmer, Blue house Williams William Roger, farmer, Glyn­ Jones William, fisherman Refltl Philip, tarmer, Tycoch y-tos~og

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PoNTYPOOJ, is a town and polling place for the county, in enlarged in 1857 at a cost of £3,000. The college session the parish of Trevethin, 146 miles north-west from London, opens in Aug·ust and closes in May: it has 1J library of 3,300 18 south-west from Monmouth, B north from Newport, volumes, and can accommodate 25 students. . 9! south from AberJ.ravenny, and 15 from Caerphilly, in There are schools on the National and also ·on the British hundred, and is the head of "' poor law union system; and there are Sunday school11 in connection wjth and also of a county court district, in Abergavenny rural every place of worship in the -town. deanery, M on mouth archdtaconry, -Llandaff diocese, and · A musical institutioni known as the "Pontypoo1 Sacred province of Canterbury: it is situated on the acclivities of Harmonic Society," ho d.s its meetings occasionally at the a bill rising from the river Avon Lwyd, or Torvaen, over 'J'own Hall. which is a stone bridge. 'l'he name of the town is a cor- "The Free Press and Herald of the Hills," a ruption of Pont-ap-Howeli: it is on the edge of the great weekly newspaper, is published ever;r Saturrlay by Mr'!' basin of coal. alid ironstone, whicl). stretches westward into David Walkinshaw. . . - . . Pembrokeslure. The board of guardmns of the Pontypool umon meets· at 'rhere are three railway sttltions: the first, called Ponty- tl1e Union House at Llanvrechva (Upper) every al~rnat~ pool station, belongs to the Railway and Thursday at 10 a. m. The union comprises 2"2 porishes, con... Canal Company, and is on their line running from Newport taining 51,429 DC'res, and n population of 30,301 ; gross esti­ to Blaenavon, where it terminates; the second, called mated rental, £II3,121; rateable value, £99,936. The Ponty pool Town station, belongs to the Great Western \York house Is a stone building, erected in 1837 ,arul will contain Rail way Company (narrow gauge) ; the third, called Ponty- nearly 200 people. 'l'he following parishes or plll<'es are in the pool Road station, is also on the Great Western line: union:- Gla!!coed, Goytrey, Gwehelog, Gwernesney, Ke­ this station is nearly a mile from the town : the line meys Commander, Llanbaddock, Llantrissant,Llanvihangei­ communicates with Newport in the south and the pont-y-Moile, Llangibby, Llanllowell, Llandegveth~ Llan­ manufacturing districts in the north, as well as with vrechva (Upper), Llanvrechva (Lower), Llanthewey Yacb, London. .. • Llanbilleth, Llangeview Mamhilad, Monkswood, Panteg, The town is ~aved and lighted, and is supplied with Trevethin, Trostrey, and Usk. excellent water by the Trevethin Water Works Company, The county court sits once a month at the Town Hall, established 1850, capital £12,000; there are two f'eservoirs, and the following places are within its jurisdiction:­ the upper one at Gwm Avon and the lower one at Aber- Aberbeeg (part), , Addawlnt, Bfaenant, Blae­ sychan. nantddu, Blaendare, Blaensychan, Blaenycwm, Briti&h Pontypool sanitary matter11 are conducted by a local Works, Cefuycrib, Coedygri~, Crosspenmaen, Crossyceilog, government board, consisting of twenty-four members: Crumlin, Cwm Avon, Cwm Bran (Upper), Cwmdws, Cwm­ the meetings are held at the Town Hall the last Friday in fradore, Cwmnantddu, Cwmsychan, Enyscoy, Garndiffaith, each month. Gellydeg, Glynpits, GolynoS) Graigddu, Havodyrunys, The police aiTangements are carried out by the Mon- Little Mill, Llanhilleth Church, Llanthew Church, Llan­ mouthshire constabulary. The superintendent has an vihangel-pont-y-Moile, Llanvrechva. (Up:rer), Llanvrechva office at the Police Station adjoining the Town Hall. (Lower); Mamhilad Church, Mamhila Village, Nanty The Town Hall, in the Hanhury-road, is a handsome Gollen, New Bridge, New Inn Panteg, Nightingale Village, and commodious stone building in the Italian style: it was Old Furnace, Panteg, Pa.ntygasseg, Penperllenny,Pentwyn, erected at the sole charge of the late Capel Hanbury Leigh, Pentwyn-mawr, Penygarn, Penyrhewl Cwm Avon, Penyr­ esq., gf Pontypool Park, the then lord-lieutenant of the hewl Penteg, Pontheer, Pontlanfraith, Pontnewydd, Pant­ county, and was opened for public business on the 5th newynydd, Pontymoile, Pontypool, Ponty Velin, Race January, 1856. . (Upper), Race (Lower), Sebastopol, Six Bells Llanhilleth, The Market Hall, in Market-street, was erected in Snatchwood, Spring Vale Cwm Bran, Staffordshire Row, 1846. ' Steedman's Farm, Ta.lawain, Tranch, Trevethin Church, The market day is on Saturday; and the fairs are held Twynyfrwd, Varteg Works, Victoria Village. and Wainy Aplil 2nd and 22nd, July 5th, and October lOth,for pleasure, Clare. . ·. horses, cattle, sheep, and cheese. There are numerous forges and iron mills for the manu- The church of St. James is a small Gothic stone structure facture of the heaviest iron work and for the inaking 'Of tin with I bell. Pontypool being in the parish of Trevethin, plates, within a short distance of the town. this church is served by the vicar of that parish. The chief articles of trade are cGal and iron of every There are four Baptist chapels, one Independent, two quality and description, with which the neighbouring billi Primitive Methodist, one United Methodist Free Church, abound; facility of conveyance is supplied by the numerous one Presbyterian, one Wesleyan, and a Mieting House for railways, and by the Mon111outhshire C11nal to the docks at the Friends. Newport. There is a convent at Hill-grove, an4 a monaster~ in Pontypool was once noted for the manufacture of certain George-street, arljoining St. Alban's Catholic church. goods known as Pontypooljapanned ware, but that branch Pontypool College, or Baptiilt Theological Institution, of business is now quite extmct, having been rivalled by occupies an elevated position at Pen-y-garn overlooking the artis:les of a somewhat similar description mad~ in Bir­ town: it was originally the College of the Welsh and English mingbam and Wolverhampton. Baptist Educatipn Society, ~nsti~uted, at Aber~v~nny in .The population in .1861 ~as ~,661; the acreage is return~~ l807l but f~moyed t9 Pont~po__ol 1U \8.l6 i the Q\\lldmg WII,S Wlth the pari!ih pf 'frev~thtn.