Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Llanfarthin like this:

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 go...

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od. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. The parish has an interest in the alms house of Chepstow.

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Travel writing

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