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LLANVIHANGEL - juxta - ROGGIETT is a parish on the shore of the Bristol Channel and on the South Wales railway,1� miles east from Magor station and half a mile west from the Severn Tunnel station, both on the Chepstow and Newport section of the Great Western railway, 8 south-west-by-west from Chepstow, and 9 east from Newport, in the Southern division of the county, Caldicot hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Chepstow, rural deanery of Netherwent, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff.
The church of St. Michael is a small building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a lofty embattled western tower containing a pre-Reformation bell: it formerly had a north aisle, taken down about 1830, when two fine recumbent figures were discovered, much defaced and broken, with an inscription, apparently of the 13th century. There are 6o sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1753 ; marriages, 1757 ; burials, 1754. The living is a rectory, united with that of Ifton to Roggiett, joint net yearly value �360, including 9 acres of glebe land here, in the gift of Lord Tredegar, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Alfred George Morris B.A. of Jesus College, Oxford, who resides at Ifton. Lord Tredegar is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, a great deal of limestone; the moorland is clay, with a little peat. The chief crops are corn ; pasture lands very good. The area is 557 acres; rateable value, �1,168; the population in 1891 was 86. Letters through Chepstow, arrive at 9.30 a.m. The. nearest money order & telegraph office is at Caldicot, about 2 miles distant. Nearest Post Office at Roggiett, cleared at 5.30 p.m. The children of this parish attend the school at Roggiett
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