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LLANHENNOCK is a parish on the banks of the river Usk and the road from Newport to Monmouth, 1� miles north-east-by-north from Caerleon station on the Hereford section of the Great Western railway, 5 north-east from Newport and 5 south from Usk, in the Southern division of the county, lower division of Usk hundred, petty sessional division of Caerleon, union of Newport, county court district of Usk, rural deanery of Caerleon, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff.
Of the ancient church of St. Gwenoc, which formerly stood at the juncture of the Soar brook with the Usk, no traces now remain. The church of St. John the Baptist, rebuilt in 1863, is an edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells: the tower was restored and new roofed in 1898, at a cost of �130: there are 140 sittings. The chalice now in use is dated 1576. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1695; marriages, 1697. The living is a rectory, net income �120, with 40 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff, and held since 1876 by the Rev. Henry Davies, of St. David's College, Lampeter. There is a reading and recreation room near the church. Glen-Usk House is the residence of Charles Herbert Firbank esq. John Capel Hanbury esq. of Pontypool Park, who is lord of the manor, Col. Sir Arthur William Mackworth bart. R.E. of The Priory, Caerleon, and Charles Nicholson esq. of Llwyn-y-Celyn, Llangibby, are the chief landowners. The soil is stony loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,471 acres of land, 2 of water, 13 of tidal water, and 14 of foreshore; rateable value, �1,670; the population in 1891 was 214.
Letters through Newport arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Caerleon, about 2 miles distant. School (mixed), built in 1851, for 60 children; average attendance, 32; Mrs. Sarah Parrott, mistress
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