CBRISTCBtJ'RCH. MONMOUTHSHIRE. [KELLY'~ • M.P. of Bishop's Hall, Romford, Essex, the trustees of Parish Clerk, William Woodhall. the late Sir Joseph Thomas Firbank, of Newport, Clerk to the Parish Council, H. N. King, 67 High street, Charles Herbert Firbank esq. John Cape! Hanbury esq. Newport Thomas Godfrey Powell esq. of Neath, and the trustees Post Office, Royal Oak.-Mrs. Mary Ann Barnes, su~ of the late Miss W ebb are chief landowners. The soil postmistress. Letters arrive from Newport at 6.30 is sand and lias; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops a.m. & 4.20 p.m.; dispatched r2.ro & 7 p.m.; no are wheat and roots. The area is 3,369 acres of land, delivery on sundays. The nearest money order office 35 of tidal water and 40 of foreshore; rateable value, is at Cross Hands & telegraph office at Caerleon .£12,301; the population in 19n was 1,655 in the civil Wall Letter Boxes.-Near Church, cleared 9·35 a.m. & :and 2,182 in the ecclesiastical parish. 6.45 p.m. ; Caerleon Village, cleared· at ro.3o a.m. & Caerleon Village, r mile north, is a hamlet. 4.30 & 8.5 p.m.; no collection on sunday. Caerleon, County Constable, George Steadman nearest post & money order office; & Llanwern, 6.5 Maindee, Liswel'ry and Somerton Common, formerly p.m portion• of this parish were incorporated with the Public Elementary (Model) School (boys & girls & in· borough of Newport in 1889, and in 1894 were, by Local fants), built in 1909, for 250 boys & girls & 156 Government Board Order, No. 31,905, added to that civil infants; average attendance, 129; Trevor Rosser parish. Evans, master ; Miss Florence Davies, mistress (For names in Somerset road, see Berrow Elizh. (Mrs.), Greyhound inn Watkins William, St. Julian's hotel Newport.) Bullock James, farmer, Mervale Willett Thos. Jas. dairyman, Bishpool Cemetery (Albert Augustus Newman, Williams David, dairyman PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Newport, clerk to the burial board) Williams James (Mrs.), fa ....rmmer,Littla :Brewer-Williams Edmund Williams Collett Waiter, shopkeeper Milton Tom Llew~lyn M.A., D.L., J.P. Cox Bence, farmer, Pwlpen farm Williams J ane (Mrs.), Milton hotel, Dan-y-Graig Dalton Alfred, farm bailiff to Thomas & farmer (postal address,Llanwern) Firbank Chas. Herbt. J.P. Coldra ho Morgan esq. Pontvane farm Firba.nk Joseph, Rose bank Dent John George, .Alway farm C.AERLEON VILLAGE. Fry Francis William, The Dale Duckham Robt.farmer,Llanllecha frm Beynon Lionel Franklin J.P. Belmont; Griffiths William, Five oaks Edwards James, farmer, Spitty farm Bishop Henry, The Hill Bern Samuel, Glanwern Ellis Sarah Jane (Mrs.), grocer Edwards John, Ivy cottage Price William Matthews Habberfield Fredk. farmer, Coli farm Griffin William John, Ashwell house Rosser William J.P Haime Jn. Foord, frmr. Up. Lakes frm Perry Mrs. The Glen Rowe Mrs. Woodville Lewis Lydia (Mrs.) farmer, Scwbor- Powell Mrs. The Grange Thorne Rev. Ernest Anderson M.A. fach farm ' Weston William Frank, Great house (vicar), The Vicarage Llewellyn William, Royal Oak P.H COMMERCIAL. Woodcock Arthur, Farmwood Luker Fredk. frmr. Gt. Milton farm Collett Thos. cattle dlr. Ash grove Luxton Henry, farmer, Cwm farm Collingbourne John, market gardener COMMRRCIAL. Pask John & Victor, timber merchts Crane Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper .!dams Alfred, coal merchant Phillips Fredk. C. frmr. Bryn Gwyn Jenkins Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Adams Alfred, farmer, Treberth Price William Matthews M.R.C.S. Jordan Richard, grocer .A.dams David, farmer, Bishpool Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & Maclean William, beer retailer Anstee Edgar, market gardener, Farn- surgeon Morris .Alfred (Mrs.) L.R.A.M. ladies' wood gardens Rogers Charles Rixon, dairyman, boarding & prep. schl. Lulworth ho .Attewell Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Bishpool Pattimore Frederick William, King'll Lakes farm Rosser William, farmer, Coldra farm .Arms P.H _\ ttewell Wyndham M. farmer, Great Watkins George, farmer, Dranllwyn jWall Edgar, insurance agent Teaston farm Watkins Joseph, mrkt. gdnr.Bishpool Young Albert, Ship hotel CILWRWG, see Kilgwrwg. COEDKERNEW is a parish, on the road from Milford portion of the road from Newport to Cardiff which to London, 2 miles north-by-east from Marshfield station passes through this parish commands a very extensive on the South Wales section of the Great Western rail- view of the Wentloog Level, the Bristol Channel and the way, 4~ south-south-west from Newport, and 8 from coast of Somersetshire. Lord Tredegar is lord of the Cardiff, in the Southern division of the county, hundred manor and principal landowner. The soil is loam; sub­ of Wentloog, petty sessional division, union and county soil, clay. The chief crops are corn and hay. The area court district of Newport, rural deanery of Newport, is 769 acres; rateable value, £937; the population in :archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff. The 19n was 179 . .church of .All Saints is a modern building of stone, in the County Constable, Sergeant William Edwards .Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western belfry containing one bell: there Letters through Newport arrive at 8 a.m. & 6 p.m. :are 130 sittings. The register dates from the year 1733 . Castleton is the nearest post, money order & tale- The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of St. graph office, I mile distant lJride Wentloog, joint net yearly value £ 240, with resi- Wall Letter Boxes. The Smithy, cleared at n.35 a.m. dence and 6-i acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of & 6.35 p.m. week days only; The Rectory, cleared at Llandaff, and held since r871 by the Rev. Watkin Davies. 1L30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. week days only There is a mission room and Sunday school here. That , The children of this place attend the school at Marshfi~ld • "Davies Rev. Watkin, Rectory Edwards Thomas, wheelwright 1 Parsons Ivor Jn. mrkt. gdnr. Ivy cot Hillier Joseph, stud manager to Lord Parsons Robert, farmer, Berry hill COMMERCIAL. Tredegar, Stud farm Phillips Rees, farmer, Ty-yn-Bryn ·naker Mary (Miss), farmer, Long ho Lewis Thomas, farmer Thomas William. blacksmith :Edwards John, farmer, Tavern farm Parsons Edwin, farmer, Mardy farm Williams John, farmer, Danygraig CROESYCEILOG, see Ll::mfrecha Lower. CROSS KEYS, see Rises. oCRUMLIN is a village in two parishes, viz. Llanhilleth Council of Abertillery and the other part in the parish of .and Mynyddyslwyn respectively, in the rural deaneries of Mynyddyslwyn forms the North Ward of the Urban Dis­ Blaenau Gwent anci F.edwellty, archdeaconry of Mon- trict Council of Abercarn. The village stands in what mouth and diocese of Llandaff. and in the Southern is termed the South Wales Coal Basin, and in the -<livision of the county, Pontypool petty sessional division neighbouring quarries are often found fine fossils of .and county court district, with two railway stations, one calamites and leopilodendrons; and, in the shale, fossil . ealled the High Level, on the Pontypool and Swansea ferns and other cryptogamic plants. That part of the ·branch, and the other the Low Level, on the Western village whiah is in the Abercarn Urban District is ·Valleys section of the Great Western railway; it is 164~ lighted with gas by the Abercarn Gas Co. as well as ..miles from London, 5 west from Pontypool, 10 north-east from other works which are private property. 'Ihat f~om Caerphilly and 12 miles north from Newport. part of Crumlin which is in Llanhilleth is lighted by "This village occupies one of the most picture!lque spots electricity from the .Abertillery Urban District electric ..in the county and is surrounded by natural features of station at Aberbeeg. Close to the village stands the unsurpassed loveliness : the name is said to be derived stupendous Crumlin Viaduct, a remarkable monument 1rom Cromlech,. a designation given to Druidical monu- of ingenuity and skill, erected about 1857, and which • .ments. Under the provisions of the "Local Government has attracted many thousands of visitors from all parts .Aot. 1894 ~· (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), that part of Crumlin of the world: it stretches across a mountain gorge -which is in LlanhiTieth is governed by the Urban Distzo;ct upwards of 230 feet deep, connecting two mountain • • .
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