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LANTHEWY-RYTHERCH is a parish, 4 miles east from Abergavenny station, on the Hereford and Pontypool section of the Great Western railway, 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. David is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, restored in 1864, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing one bell: there are :150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1733. The living is a vicarage, net income �115, with 12 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Thomas William Jones B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. Here is Baptist chapel. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the manor, and William Reginald J. F. Herbert esq. of Clytha Park, are the principal landowners. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, the same. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips, about half is in pasture. The area is 2,000 acres ; rateable value, �2,393 ; the population in 1891 was 307. Letters through Abergavenny arrive at 8 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 3.55 p.m. Abergavenny, 4 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office
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