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LLANTHEWY SKIRRID is a parish on the road from Abergavenny to Ross, 3 miles north-east from Abergavenny station, on the Great Western railway, and 19 north-east from Newport, 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 edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, rebuilt, with the exception of the, tower, in 1828 and restored in 1870 and again in 1880, by C. Bailey esq. : it consists of chancel, nave, south porch and western tower containing four bells: there are 150 sittings. The register of marriages dates from the year 1754. The official return of 1831 states that at that time no other book could be found. The living is a rectory net yearly value �170, with 106 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the trustees of John Jones esq. of Langstone Court, and held since 1880 by the Rev. John Walton Jones M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The Great Skirrid mountain, 1,601 feet high, is partly in this parish. Mrs. Gordon Canning, of Hartpury, Gloucester, Mrs. Curre, of Itton Court, Messrs. Jones and Harley Rodney esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,059 acres ; rateable value, �775 ; the population in 1900 was 115. Parish Clerk, William Exton. Post Office. Bentley Maddy, sub-postmaster. Letters through Abergavenny arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Abergavenny, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office. The children of this parish attend the school at Llanvetherine
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