KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, 1901

KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE 1901

Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire,1901 The proprietors trust that the present Edition of Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire may be found at least equal in accuracy to the previous ones. Every place in Monmouthshire, and every parish will again be found to be included in the book. The Letters M.O.O. and S.B. are abbreviations adopted by H.M. Post Office to represent Money Order Office and Savings Bank.

DINGESTOW

DINGESTOW is a parish on the road from Monmouth to Abergavenny, the river Trothy forming its eastern boundary, with a station on the Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool line of the Great Western railway, 4 miles west-south-west from Monmouth, and 148 from London, in the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Raglan, Raglan and Trellech highway district of the Monmouth District Council, union and county court district of Monmouth, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Monmouth, and diocese of Llandaff.

The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 4 bells: the church was thoroughly restored, reseated and new roofed in 1887-8, at a cost of �750: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1755. The living is a vicarage, net income, �194, with 23 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Albert Davies B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge.

There was once a castle here, but only the moat can now be traced. Dingestow Court, a mansion in the Elizabethan and Pointed Gothic styles, is the seat of Samuel Courthope Bosanquet esq., D.L., J.P.

The Duke of Beaufort A.D.C. who is lord of the manor, and Samuel Courthope Bosanquet esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is stiff clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 1,965 acres of land, and 7 of water; rateable value, �1,496; the population in 1891 was 189.

Parish Clerk, Benjamin Gundy.

Post office, John Wait, sub-postmaster.
Letters are received through Monmouth at 7.35 a.m dispatched at 4.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued but not paid. The nearest money order office is at Monmouth. There is a telegraph office at Dingestow railway station, by which telegrams can be forwarded or received. Monmouth is the nearest telegraph office for delivery, 4 miles distant

This place is included in the Dingestow and Tregare School Board district, formed 15 April, 1874, & the children of this parish attend the Tregare school.

Railway Station, John Arthur Thomas, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Bosanquet Samuel Courthope, D.L., J.P., Dingestow court
Davies Rev. Albert B.A., Vicarage

COMMERCIAL
Cowles James, farmer, Lower Talyvan
Cowles John, farmer, Upper Talyvan
Davies Andrew, farmer, Upper Llantrothy
Drew Temperance (Mrs.), farmer, Hall farm
Edmunds John, shopkeeper & Boot maker
Meake George, farmer, Newland
Ellaway John, farmer Great house
Griffiths John, carpenter & wheelwright
Gundy Wm. coal merchant, Railway station
Jones Alsop, farmer, Lower Llantrothy
Jones John, farmer, Fishpool
Jones John, farmer, Treberren
Jones John Roberts, farmer, Court farm
Meake George, farmer, Newland
Miles Benjamin, farmer, Parlour farm
Rogers Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Silcock Thomas, farmer, Blue-door
Smith Peter, farmer, New house