Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANELLEN

LLANELLEN, a parish, with a village, in Abergavenny district, Monmouth; on the river Usk and the Brecon canal, near the Hereford and Newport railway, 2½ miles S of Abergavenny. Post town, Abergavenny. Acres, 2,536. Real property, £2,529. Pop., 373. Houses, 79. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £105. Patron, T. Swinnerton, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Helen, and is old but good. Charities, £7.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Llanelen CP/AP       Abergavenny PLU/RegD       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Llanelen

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