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.

PARC GRACE DIEU

PARC GRACE DIEU is a parish 5� miles west from Monmouth, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Skenfrith, petty sessional division of Raglan, union and county court district of Monmouth.

The Cistercian Abbey of Parc Grace Dieu, which stood near the river Trothy was founded by John de Monmouth in the year 1236 and is mentioned by Leland as "standing in a wood". On its dissolution there were only two monks, and the entire revenue only �19. Its few remains form part of a barn belonging to the farm to which it gives its name, and which constitutes the entire parish.

A cottage was erected on the Pare Grace Dieu estate in 1870, near the Abbey bridge over the river Trothy, and is known by the name of Abbey cottage.

Lord Llangattock, of The Hendre, Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, is sole landowner.

The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 388 acres, rateable value, �264, and the population in 1891 was 16.

Letters through Monmouth. The Hendre is the nearest money order & telegraph office, about one mile distant.

PRINCIPAL RESIDENT
Jones, James, farmer, Parc Grace Dieu