Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANMARTIN

LLANMARTIN, a parish in Newport district, Monmouth; near the South Wales railway, 2 ½ miles NE by E of Llanwern r. station, and 4 ESE of Caerleon. It contains the hamlet of Llandevand; and its Post town is Newport, Monmouth. Acres, 941. Real property, £1,422. Pop., 181. Houses, 32. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Wilerick, in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £250.* Patron, W. P. Herrick, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Martin, and is good. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. The parish has an interest in the alms house of Chepstow.


(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: Llanfarthin AP/CP       Newport RegD/PLU       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Llanfarthin

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