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.
REDWICK
REDWICK is a parochial chapelry, on the Bristol Channel, 3 miles south-by-west from Magor station, on the South Wales section of the Great Western railway and 8 south-east from Newport, in the Southern division of the county, lower division of the hundred of Caldicot, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Newport, rural deanery of Netherwent, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff.

The church of St. Thomas is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: it was restored in 1876 at a cost of �1,035 and has 70 sittings, of which 50 are free. The register dates from the year 1787. The living is a perpetual curacy, consolidated with the vicarage of Magor, joint net income �272, in the gift of the Duke of Beaufort, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Benjamin Birbeck, of St. Bees, who resides at Magor. There is a Baptist chapel.

The principal landowners are St. John Knox Rickards Phillips esq. of Whitson, who is lord of the, manor, and Lord Tredegar, Mrs. Perry-Herrick of Beaumanor Park, Leicester, and Theophilus Richards Hamlen Williams L.R.C.P.(Lond.). of Fairfield, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire.

The soil is a clayey loam; subsoil, clay and marl. The land is principally in pasture. The area is 2,502 acres of land and 4,655 of foreshore, rateable value, �4,651, and the population in 1891 was 226.

Parish Clerk: George Ballinger.

Letters through Newport arrive at 11 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 3.20 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Magor, 3 miles distant.

School (mixed & infants), built in 1876, for 40 children; average attendance, 34; Miss Lucy Jane Powell, mistress

Payne William, Poplar cottage

COMMERCIAL
Bakers Thomas, farmer, Longlands farm
Burris John, blacksmith & assistant overseer.
Christopher James, King's Head P.H
Cox James Leonard, farmer, Bryn farm
Edmunds Charles, beer retailer
Elliott Joseph Augustus, farmer
Gale John, farmer
Gale William, jun., farmer
Gardiner Daniel, farmer
Hale Thomas, farmer, Brick House
Huggett Daniel, farmer, Mead farm
James James, farmer, Grange Lake farm
Lewis James, market gardener
Parker Sarah Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Payne Alfred, farmer
Phillips Thomas, farmer
Rosser Morgan, farmer, North row
Smith Arthur Bosil, farmer, Church farm
Thorne George, farmer
Walters Mary (Mrs.), farmer, New house
Williams Charles, mason & shopkeeper
Williams George, mason
Williams Obadiah, farmer, Great house
Williams William, farmer, North row

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