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LLANGATTOCK LLINGOED is a parish and small village, 3 miles east from Llanvihangel station on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, and 7 northeast from Abergavenny, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Abergavenny, rural deanery of Abergavenny, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff. The church of St. Cadoc is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: between the chancel and nave is a beautiful rood screen of the date of Henry VI.
The church plate includes a chalice and paten of hammered silver, the latter forming a cover: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1696. The living is a rectory, net yearly value �85, with residence and 16� acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1894 by the Rev. George Beynon Jones B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. There are some quarries of very good stone, much used for building purposes. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the manor, and Reginald Vaughan esq. of Glen Trothy, Llantillio Crossenny are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand, subsoil, heavy clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, apples, with much pasture land. The area is 1,944 acres, rateable value, �1,436, the population in 1891 was 181. Post Office.- Joseph Davies, sub-postmaster. Letters through Abergavenny arrive at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 3.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Llanvihangel Crucorney is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 4 miles distant National Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1848, for 50 children & since enlarged in 1887. Average attendance, 47, & supported in part by an endowment of �400 bestowed in 1849 by James Davies, formerly of Devauden, to whose memory a tablet was erected in the chancel of the church ; Jonathan Badcock, master. Jones Rev. George Beynon B.A. (rector), Rectory
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