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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ABERYSTRUTH, a parish, which is also a subdistrict, in the district of Abergavenny, Monmouth; at the Blaina station of the Western Valleys railway, 9 miles WSW of Abergavenny. Post Town, Blaina under Tredegar. Acres, 11,788. Real property, £63,055,-of which £38,673 are in mines and iron-works. Pop. in 1841, 11,272; in 1861, 16,055. Houses, 2,865. The property is held in two estates. The surface is chiefly upland, round the higher reaches of the Ebbw river. Collieries and iron-works, round Nantyglo, Beaufort, and other centres, employ a great proportion of the inhabitants, and have undergone great recent increase. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff Value, £265. Patron, the Earl of Abergavenny. The curacy of Abertillery is included; and the vicarage of Nantyglo and cur. of Beaufort are separate benefices. The parish-church is good. Aberystruth is sometimes called Blaen-Gwent.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, which is also a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Aberystruth CP/AP Aberystruth SubD Monmouthshire AncC |
| Place: | Aberystruth |
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