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DIRECTO JH'. J MONMOUTHSHIRE. DIXTON. 69 !Powell Thomas, farmer, Tyhwnt Knight Matthew Jas. Llanthony Abbey FWTHOG. Price Phillip, farmer, Middle Coombe hotel; accommodation for tourists COMMERCIAL. .Price Thomas, farmer, Little LlwygeP & visitors, excellent tro~t. fishing, 1 Bevan William, New inn Pritchard David, jun. farmer, Cwm- conveyances to meet VISitors at Davies Thomas, farmer, Fwthog farm buchall s~ations; motor garage Dodd William, farmer, Pant 1 l'ritchard Jas. farmr. Lower Henlan Kmght. Matthew James, estate steward 1 Jasper William, farmer, Gare Pritchard John, farmer, New house to C. S. Landor esq . Kedward Wm. Richd. farmer, 1.'yco•·h Suuthwood Francis, farmer, The Coed Powell John James, miller (water) Lewis John, farmer, Pontysgib Williams Eli, farmer, Sychtree Morgan Lewis, farmPr, Blaencwm Williams John, Queen's Head P.H BWLCH TREWYN. Morgan Waiter, farmer Williams Wm. farmer, Nantygwithell Kelly His Hon'or Judge S . ..!.. Hill, Parsons Philip, miller (water) Trewyn Price J ames, farmer, Tymrury LLANTHONY .ABBEY. Davies Thomas, miller (water) Pritchard Thomas, farmer, Upper ho Colley Austin Bright, Half Moon P.H Jenkins James, blacksmith Prosser James, farmer, Couyis Gwillim James, farmer, Oourt farm Jones John, farmer, Pentwyn Thomas William, caretaker to Richd. Howells John, blacksmith Price James, farmer, Dan-y-Bwlch Baker-Ga bb esq. Cadogan farm • DINGESTOW is a parish on the road from Monmouth J.P. There was once a castle here, but only the mound to Abergavenny, the river Trothy forming its eastern and moat can now be traced. Dingestow Court, 8 man boundary, with a station on the Monmouth, Usk and sion in the Elizabethan and Pointed Gothic styles, is Pontypoolline of the Great Western railway, 4 miles west- the seat of Samuel Courthope Bosanquet esq. D.L., J.P. 11outh-west from Monmouth, and I48 from London, in the who is the principal landowner. Percy Laybourne esq. Southern division of the county, hundred and petty ses- of ~ewport, is lord of the manor. The soil is stiff clay. 11ional division of Raglan, Raglan and Trellech highway dis- The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is I,965 trict of the Monmouth District Council, union and county acres of land and 7 of water; rat-eable value, £I,532; -court district of Monmouth, rural deanery and archdea- population in I911, 190. -conry of Monmouth, and diocese of Liandaff. The Sexton, Charles Morgan. church, anciently dedicated to St. Dingat and later to Post Office. John Waite, sub-postmaster. Letters are St. Mary, is an ancient building of stone, in the Early received through Monmouth at 7.IS a.m. & I.Io p.m. English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, & dispatched at I.3S & S·4S p.m. ; no sunday delivery. nave, north transept, south porch and an embattled western The nearest money order office is at Over Monmow & tower containing 4 bells: the east window is filled with telegraph office, Raglan. There is 8 telegraph office stained glass: the church was thoroughly restored, re- at Ding€stow railway station, by which telegrams can seated and new roofed in I887·8, at a cost of /)So::- "there be forwarded or received. This office is open on week 1 are so sittings. In the churchyard is an ancient days only from Io to I, 2 to S & 6 to 8 p.m. Man- cross. The register dates from the year I755· The mouth is the nearest tel€graph office for delivery, 4 living is a vicarage, net income {,I2o, with 23 acres of p1iles distant glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Wall Letter Box, The Waste, cleared S p.m. week days Chapter of Llandaff, and held since I9I2 by the Rev. onlv "Thomas Parry Pryce B.A. of St. David's College, Lam- · - peter. The vicarage house, prettily situated near the The children of this parish attend the Tregare school church, was built in I906 by S. C. Bosanquet esq. D.L., Railway Station, John Arthur Thomas, station master Bosanquet Samuel CourthopeD.L.,J.P. Ellaway Kate (Mrs.), farmer,Great ho Jones William _\}sop, farmer, Lower Dingestow court, Griffiths Enoch, threshing machine Llantrothy Pryce Rev.Thomas Parry B . ..\.(vicar), proprietor, Evelnewydd Miles Benjamin, farmer, Parlour farm Vicarage Griffiths J ames, carpenter Miles Percy Thomas, assistant over- COMMERCIAL. Hanner Thos. farmer, Common farm seer, Parlour farm .Cowles Mary (Mrs.), Upper Talyvan Harnett George, gardener to S. 0 Mullens Sidney, farm~r. Blue door & Cowles Reuben, farmer, Low. Talyvan Bosanquet esq. New lodge Newland Drew Temperance (Mrs.), farmer, J"unes John, farmer, Fishpuol Parry Thomas, coal merchant, Rail- Hall farm Jones .John, farmer, Treberren wa,· station :Edmundll John, b8ot maker Jones John Roberts, frmr. Court farm ,Smith PetPr Wiliiam, farmer, New ho DINHAM, see Llanvair-Discoed. DIXTON (or Dixton Newton) is a parish on the river and extensive prospect. On the top is a monument or Wye, on the road from Ross to Monmouth, and extend temple, erected in August, 18oo, to commemorate the ing to the Gloucestershire border, I mile north-east from victories achieved by English admirals in the 18th cen Monmouth railway station, in the Southern division of tury, and dedicated to her Grace the Duchess of B~aufort, the county, hundred of Skenfrith, Monmouth and Sken daughter of .Admiral Boscawen; it was restored by the frith highway district, petty sessional division, union and Duke of Beaufort in I882: a circular pavilion, restored in -county court district and partly in the parliamentary 188g, has also been erected for the use of visitors; the view 'borough of Monmouth, rural deanery and archdeaconry ot from the summit of this remarkable hill extends to a Monmouth, and diocese of Llandaff. The church of St. circumference of nearly three hundred miles, including "Peter is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English parts of ten counties, namely, Salop, Montgomery, Bad $tyle, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches, nor, Brecon, H~reford, Worcester, Gloucester, Somerset, and a western tower with low broach spire, containing 4 Glamorgan and Monmoutb. .A little distance to the bells, the tenor being of pre-Reformation date, and in S(lnth-east is a rocking stone, known as the "Buck· scribed " Sancta Margareta ora pro nobis :" there are stone"; it was mischievously displaced in 1885 by some memorial brasses and mural tablets to the Griffin and trippers, put was replaced in the following year at an "Tyler families, and memorial windows to Mary .A.nne, expenditure of £soo. :Xewton Court is the seat of the -wife of John Endell Powell, d. 186o, and to the Rev. Re>. Charles W. Griffin M.A. Wyastone Leys, the James Lister D:.ghton, 38 years vicar here, d. 1871: property of James Murray Bannerman esq. B . .A., D.L., there are 2so sittings. The register dates from the J.P. of Llwyn Onn Hall, Wrexham, is the residence of year I66I. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Walter LeT"ett esq. The trustees of the late Edwar:d .£ISO, with 9 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift A.rnott esq. J.P. (d. I9o6) are lords of the manor. The of Charles Edward Machen fsq. of Biclmor Cottage, principal landowners are the Crown, Rev. Charles W. "English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, and held since 1886 Griffin M . .A., J. M. Bannerman €Sq. the trust-ees of the bv• the Rev. John Witherston Rickards B.A. of Caius late E. .A.rnott esq. and Mrs. Borrett. The soil is light 'College, Cambridge. The church of St. James, at Wye- loam ; subsoil, red sandstone. The area is 2,046 acres 'Sham, a chapel of ease to the parish church. erected in of land and 47 of water; rateable value, £I,S85; popu 187s, at a cost of £I,Soo, is a stone building in the Early lation in I9II, I36. "English style, and consists of chancel, nave, and a north The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1911 was western tower with a stone spire and rontaining one bell: 623, which includes part of Llanrothal, in Herefordshire. the stained east window was a gift to the church : the May Hill is a hamlet I mile south of the church. Red west window is a memorial to the late Henry Gosling brook is a hamlet 3 miles south. w~·eshnm i• a hamlet !'sq. Here is a steam saw mill and gas works. In a half-a-mile south of May Hill. 1ield on the right hand side of the road leading to Man month is a tumulus, which some years ago was opened By Local Government Board Order No. 31,745• Jlari and found to contain Roman pottery. The Kymin Hill, of Dixton civil parish was, in "189·h added to Monmont~ about Il miles due ea!!t from Monmouth, rises to a civil parish. height of 700 feet above the river Wye, and affords a fine Parish Clerk, George Williams. .