Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANTHEWY-RYTHERCH

LLANTHEWY-RYTHERCH, a parish in Abergavenny district, Monmouth; on a branch of the river Trothy, 3 miles ESE of Abergavenny r. station. Posttown, Abergavenny. Acres, 2,187. Real property, £2,626. Pop., 339. Houses, 81. The property is sub divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £215.* Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St. David, and was reported in 1859 as bad.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Abergavenny PLU/RegD       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Llanddewi Rhydderch

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