DIRECTORY.] MONMOUTHSHIRE. MONMOUTH, llJ

PRIVATE BESmBN'fS. Davies John, farmer, The Wern Lewis J"arnes H. farmer, Great hoUB.at .Arnott Rev. Edwin B.A. (rector), Davies John Werrett, farmer, Red The Common Rectory house & The Square farms Morgan Nathaniel, blacksmith Arnott Mrs. The Elms. Davies William, farmer, White house Moxharn Michael, cowkpr, Mm"Gl'ook Jones Alfred Edwin J.P Edwards Robert, farmer Price Robert, farmer, Village farJ:P., Kerouanton Rev. Herve (Catholic), Harris Edwin, baker, & Lydart post Roberts Phillip, farmer The Presbytery office, Highfield Stead Philip, Monmouthshire jna Oakley Mrs. Lydart house Howells Henry William, relieving Sumner Louis,shopkeeper, & post off Thompson James Henry, Stormburg, officer No. 1 district &; registrar of Th~a.s Thomas,farmer,The Common Trelleck road births & deaths &; vaccination Thompson Jas. Hy. bldr. Trellook. rd COMMERCIAL. officer for Trelleck su,b-district, Williams Jn.Knight,frmr. Lydari .fJm Bartlett John Hall, oil mer. Lydart Monmouth union, Broomfield Williams Philip John, farmell!' &; Convent of Notre Dame de Charit6 du Jones Alfred E. farmer, Troy farm assistant overseer, Redwern Refuge (Rev. Herve Kerouanton, J ones Francis, Old House & High- chaplain), Troy house way farms MONXSWOOD is a parish on the western bank of and held since 1893 by the Rev. Percy Louis Charles the Usk River and on the- road from Usk to Pontypool, Nash B.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham University, who is af miles north-west-by-west from Usk station on the also vicar of and resides at Usk. Albert •Addams• Monmouth and Pontypool Road section of the Great Williams esq. of Llangibby, ia lord of the manor, Western railway, :in the Southern division of the county, and David Francis Pritchard esq. of Goytrey, Pontypool, hundred, petty sessional division and county court the principal landowner. The soil is silurian; subsoil, district of U sk, union of Pontypool, rural deanery of U sk, clay. The chief crops are grain and roots; there is a archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff. The great deal of wood. The aNa is 1,109 acres of land and church is a small building of stone, consisting of chance] 17 of water ; rateable value, £839 1os. ; the population and nave and a western belfry containing :z bells : the in 1911 was u8. This parish is reputed to be extra­ church was entirely rebuilt in 1883-4-o at a cost of £1,038, parochial for ecclesiastical purposes. in the Early English style, from plans furnished by Mr. E. Parish Clerk, Herbert Bishop. Lingen-Barker, of Hereford, the chief contributors to the outlay being Miss E . .A. Stokes, of Cheltenham, and the Letters through Usk arrive at. 7.30 a.m. The nearest; Duke of Beaufort : there are 140 sittings. . The register money .order &; telegraph office is at Usk, 2! m-ilea dates from the year 1783. The living is a perpetua1 distant cnracy, net yearly value. £75• including glebe (£63) Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8.20 a..m.; no collection on without Tesidence, in the gift of Cambridge University, sunday

COM:M:ERCI.AL. Knipe Henry Charles, farmer; Pants­ Stinchcombe Henry Edward, farmer, Arthnr William Gwyn, farmer, Esta­ pudding fm. (letters via Pontypool) Chapel farm varney Pardoe Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper Warwick Carnpbell James, Beaufort Bishop Herbert, blacksmith Perrott John, market gardener Arms P.H Crump William,farmer, Burnt house Watkins Edwin, farmer, Wood farm ... M ON MOUTH MONMOUTH, the county town of Monmouthshire, is a by turbines, worked by the stream, steam being only used municipal and parliamentary borough, a market town and as an auxiliary. The town is well supplied with wateJ.' the head of a petty sessional division, poor law union, and from the reservoir on ·May hill. In 1890 a further water county court district, 128 miles from London by road and supply was brought in by gravitation from springs rising 145 by railway, 31 from Gloucester, 16 from Abergavenny, in the Buckholt, about 3 miles distant, which enables 19 from Hereford, 10 south-west from Ross, 16 north from the company to give a constant supply to the town; the Chepstow, 55 from Bristol, 25 north-east from Newport, water is considered remarkably good, rising as it does in 35 north-east from Cardiff and So from Swansea; it is in the old red sandstone rock. In 1905 a new system of the Southern division of the county, hundred of Sken- sewage disposal was adopted, by which the sewage i. frith, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Monmouth and pumped into three large septic tanks, where the solids diocese of Llandaff. are liquefied and after passing through filter beds the The parliamentary and municipal boundaries are the effluent is run off into the river in a purified state; same and include the parish of Monmouth and a part of the wDixton Newton 24 hours, thoroughly :filtered. Mon:r;nouth, in connection with the towns of Newport Monmouth is a place of great antiquity, and has been and Usk, forms the Monmouth Parliamentary District identified by some antiquaries with the Roman station constituted by the "Reform Act, 1832" (2 & 3 Wm. IV. "B1estinm," mentioned in the 13th Iter of Antoninus; c. 45), returning one member to Parliament. It is a it has been immortalized by Shakespeare in "Henry IV." borough by prescription, but received l charter from The town was formerly walled round and moated, and had Henry VI. and others from Edw. VI. Jas. I. Chas. I. and four gates, and of one of these (Dixton or the East gate) Chas. II. the earliest existing charter being that of there are still remains; t-he others were named "Monk's Edw. VI. dated 1549; but under the" Municipal Corpor- Gate," "Wye Gate" & "West Gate"; the walls enclosed ations Act, 1835" (5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76) the Corporation an area of about 20 acres; and a portion existed in the was remodelled, and now consists of a mayor~ four alder- reign of Henry VIII. The place was formerly celebrated men and twelve councillors, under the style of "the for the manufacture of head-gear, and this trade is mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Mon- thought to have principally thrived in Over Monnow mouth." (anciently called "Cappers' Town"). Cromwe11 was en- ~ The town is seated in a beautiful valley nearly encircled tertained here in 1646. Roman coins have been found in by hills and at the confluence of the rivers Wye, Monnow various parts of the town, notably on the site of the and Trothy, which nearly surround it; over the Wye is a Grammar School. stone bridge of fr.ve arches, bearing the date 1617; an The church of St. Mary, originally Norman, was rebuilt ancient stone bridge, of three arches, on which stands an in the Early English period, but in 1737 the church was ancient gateway of two storeys with a projecting garde- almost entirely pulled down, and rebuilt in a debased robe, and sloping roof, crosses the Monnow, and a third Classic style, rather to the south of its former site; in the Trothy. The town consists chiefly of one long street, 1882-3, the church was again remodelled under the of good width, ,rising rapidly towar4s the east, and direction of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. at a cost of expanding at the top into an open space called "Agin- £7,000, and is now a building of stone in the Early • court square," from which several ot.her thoroughfare& English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south branch out. chapel, organ chamber, south-western porches and a A single line railway runs from Pontypool Road station wester.n tower with spire, :zoo feet high, containing a to Ross. There are a1so branches from Troy to Coleford clock and 8 bells, rehung in 1883, • and a fire bell, and Chep~tow, all of which are worked by the Great recast in ~emory of Mr. John Rees, late captain ~~ Western Railway Co. . the fire brigade; portions of the nave respond dis· The town is paved and is lighted by electricity under 1 oovered during the restoration and now seen a Provisional Order granted by the Board of Trade, and I the west wall belonged to the Norhum fabric; which received the Royal assent 3\'d July, 1894· The fine specimens of 14th and 15th century tilel. ,. works, situated at the Old Forge on the Monnow, are the '' cress et" stone and a piscina a~ preserve.;~ in property of the Corporation; the motive power it furnished tiatery: the altar painting, representing the •

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