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.

LLANVIHANGEL-LLANTARNAM

also known as

'LLANTARNAM'

LLANVIHANGEL-LLANTARNAM is a parish between the road leading from Newport to Pontypool and the river Usk, with a station called Llantarnam on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, 4 miles north from Newport arid 156� from London, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Usk, petty sessional division of Caerleon, union and county court district of Newport, rural deanery of Newport, archdeaconry of Monmouth, and diocese of Llandaff.

The Monmouthshire canal intersects the parish. The parish was governed by a Local Board, created by Local Government Board Order, from 1885 until the "Local Government Act, 1894" established the present Urban District Council.

The church of St. Michael, restored in 1860, is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel with side chapel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: in the chancel are some handsome marble monuments : the mortuary chapel of the Dowling family, adjoining the chancel, is separated from it by two ancient freestone arches of peculiar construction: the church was entirely new roofed in 1899: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1727.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value �108, with 21 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1897 by the Rev. John Woollaston Ward M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. Here is a Baptist chapel. A Cemetery, six acres in extent, was formed in 1892 at a cost of �3,100; there is a mortuary chapel. It is under the control of the Urban District Council. The charities, producing �21, are distributed yearly in money.

This place was formerly the site of an abbey, founded c.1170 by Halvel ap Iorwerth, and dedicated to SS. Mary and Deuma; at the Dissolution there were six monks, and revenues estimated at �71 yearly. The gateway still remains.

Llantarnam Abbey, the residence of Clifford John Cory esq., J.P., is a building of stone in the Tudor style. Richard Parfitt esq. of The Grange, Cardiff road, Newport, who is lord of the manor, and Clifford John Cory esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are oats and barley; there is much pasture land, heavily timbered. The area is 4,063 acres of land, 34 of water and 2 of foreshore, rateable value, �19,688; the population in 1891 was 4,905.

A part of the district of Cwmbran is within this parish, and will be found under a separate heading.

Parish Clerk, George Bounder.

Post office, LIantarnam road.
George Pritchard, subpostmaster.
Letters received from Newport at 7.25 a.m., dispatched, 7.45 p.m.; sundays, arrive, 8.50 a.m., dispatched 9.55 a.m.; open 8 to 10 sundays for sale of stamps & registration. Postal orders issued, but not paid.
Cwmbran is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant
Wall Letter Boxes:
Greenhouse, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m.
Croesymwylch, cleared at 7.45 a.m. & 6.10 p.m.; sundays, 10.25 a.m

LLANTARNAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Meets at St. Dials' Board school, Cwmbran, every 3rd friday at 6.30 p.m.

Members.
All retire in April, 1901.

Chairman, D. Roger Evans, J.P.

Henry Smith Cocker	Edward Arthur Pryer
Thomas Harris	Fredk. Wm. Rafarel, J.P
John Mumford	Charles W. Simmons
John Parry

Officers
Clerk, H. H. Haden, Town hall, Pontypool
Treasurer, Leonard Acomb, Lloyds Bank Lim., Newport
Medical officer of Health, William Edward Cavanagh Murphy, M.B. & B.Ch.(Dublin). Prospect place, Cwmbran
Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Reuben Matthews, Cemetery house
Collector, Henry Thomas, Hill view, Cwmbran

A School Board of 7 members was formed 22 May, 1871. T. B. Jones, Bank chambers, Newport, clerk to the board; John Powell, Oakfield, Cwmbran, attendance officer.

The schools are in Cwmbran, under which place the particulars will be found.

Llantarnam Railway Station, John Mann, station master

PRVATE RESIDENTS
Collett James, Hilary
Cory Clifford John J.P., LIantarnam abbey
Cromwell Henry, The Homestead
Davies Mrs., Springfield
Dawson William F., Llantarnam Hall
Evans David Roger, Somerton house
Evans Joshua, St. Valerie
Harding George Frederick, Oakdene
Jones Capt. Hamilton, The Grange
Jones Thomas Richard, Penlangwyn
Morgan H. Lawrence, Llantarnam rd
Parsons Mrs., Arnold's villas
Pilliner Alfred Massey J.P., Llanavon house
Roberts William David, Mayfield
Ward Rev. John Woollaston, M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage
Whyman R. Ivy cottage

COMMERCIAL
Barnstable Fdk., farmer, Lodge farm
Cox James, Three Blackbirds P.H.
Dando William, farmer, Middle House Farm
Jenkins Sidney, beer retailer, Two Locks road
Lavender James, shopkeeper, 18 Llantarnam road
Lawrence Priscilla (Mrs.), farmer, Court farm
Mallard James, shopkeeper & coal dealer Llantarnam road
Matthews Reuben, surveyor & inspector of nuisances & superintendent of cemetery to Llantarnam Urban District Council, Cemetery house
Matthews Thomas, Coopers' Arms P.H
Mumford Harry, farmer, Pen-y-Park farm.
Phillips Owen, farmer, Cottage farm
Pickman William, farmer, Grange farm
Pilliner Alfd.Massey, farmer, Llanaravon
Price Benj. farmer, Maes-y-rhiw
Pritchard George, blacksmith & shop keeper, Post office
Quilford James, shopkeeper, Llantarnam road
Richards John, farmer, Graigwen
Roberts William, farmer, Tywen farm
Samuel Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Penlanghaul farm
Star Brick & Tile Co. Lim. (Everett Hartley, manager)
Stark William Charles, farmer, Croesymwlch farm
Thomas Edward, Greenhouse P.H.
Urban District Cemetery (Reuben Matthews, supt.), Cemetery house
Vincent Thomas Uriah, farmer, Cider Mill farm
Waters William, wheelwright