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LLANGATTOCK-NIGH-USK is a parish and village, on the road from Abergavenny to Usk and Monmouth, the river Usk bounding the parish on the south, close to the Penpergwm railway station ' which is in this parish, on the Great Western line from Abergavenny to Newport, 3� miles south-southeast from Abergavenny, 7� north-west from Usk, and 7� south from Pontypool, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Abergavenny, rural deanery of Raglan, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff.
The church of St. Cadoc is an ancient building of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and i western belfry containing one bell: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1597; the earlier records are much decayed. The living is a rectory, net yearly value �260, with100 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. and held since1883 by the Rev. William Booth Corfield M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Llangattock House is the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Fitzmaurice. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G., who is lord of the manor, Lord Tredegar, Sir William Thomas Lewis, of The Mardy, Aberdare, and William Reginald J. F. Herbert esq. of Clytha Park, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips and pasturage. The area is 1,586 acres of land and 39 of water, rateable value �3,940; the population in 1801 was 265. Parish Clerk, Cornelius Hicks. Post & M.O.O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office - Cornelius Hicks, sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive from Abergavenny at 6.45 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. week days only. The nearest telegraph office is at Llanvihangel-near-Usk.
Board School (mixed). built in 1878 &, enlarged in 1898, for 65 children; average attendance, 46. Penpergwm Railway Station, Richard James Edwards, station master.
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