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Post Office Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales 1871

LLANGATTOCK LLINGOED is a parish and small village, distant 166 miles north-west from London, 7 north-east from Abergavenny, 3 east from Llanvihangel railway station, 15 north-east from Pontypool, and 21½ north-east from Newport, in the hundred, union and county court district of Abergavenny, Abergavenny rural deanery, Monmouth archdeaconry, Llandaff diocese, and Canterbury province. The church of St. Cadoc is an ancient Gothic stone building; it has a nave, chancel, and tower with 3 bells. The register dates from the year 1696. The living is a rectory, value £175 yearly tithe rent-charge, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held by the Rev. John Price M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. There is a National Endowed school for boys and girls. There are some stone quarries; the stone is very good, and used for building purposes. The Earl of Abergavenny is lord of the manor, and he, with Lieut.-Col. Vaughan and Crawshay Bailey esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, heavy clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, apples, with much pasture land. The area is 1,927 acres, gross estimated rental, £1,854; rateable value, £1,650; and the population in 1861 was 200.

Letters through Abergavenny, which is the nearest money order office.

National Endowed School, Miss Sarah Powell, mistress.

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Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales 1895

LLANGATTOCK LLINGOED is a parish and small village, 3 miles east from Llanvihangel station on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, and 7 northeast from Abergavenny, 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. Cadoc is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: between the chancel and nave is a beautiful rood screen of the date of Henry VI. The church plate includes a chalice and paten of hammered silver, the latter forming a cover: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1696. The living is a rectory, yearly tithe rent-charge £173, average £128, gross income £100, net £85, with residence and 16½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1894 by the Rev. George Beynon Jones B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. There are some quarries of very good stone, much used for building purposes. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the manor, and Reginald Vaughan esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand, subsoil, heavy clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, apples, with much pasture land. The area is 1,927 acres, rateable value, £1,457, the population in 1891 was 181.

Post Office.- Joseph Davies, sub-postmaster. Letters through Abergavenny arrive at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 3.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Llanvihangel Crucorney is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 4 miles distant

National Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1848, for 50 children & since enlarged 1887; average attendance, 40; & supported in part by an endowment of £400 bestowed in 1849 by James Davies, formerly of Devauden, to whose memory a tablet was erected in the chancel of the church, George Rumbol, master.

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Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire 1901

LLANGATTOCK LLINGOED is a parish and small village, 3 miles east from Llanvihangel station on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, and 7 northeast from Abergavenny, 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. Cadoc is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: between the chancel and nave is a beautiful rood screen of the date of Henry VI. The church plate includes a chalice and paten of hammered silver, the latter forming a cover: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1696. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £85, with residence and 16½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1894 by the Rev. George Beynon Jones B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter.

There are some quarries of very good stone, much used for building purposes. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the manor, and Reginald Vaughan esq. of Glen Trothy, Llantillio Crossenny are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand, subsoil, heavy clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, apples, with much pasture land. The area is 1,944 acres, rateable value, £1,436, the population in 1891 was 181.

Post Office.- Joseph Davies, sub-postmaster. Letters through Abergavenny arrive at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 3.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Llanvihangel Crucorney is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 4 miles distant

National Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1848, for 50 children & since enlarged in 1887. Average attendance, 47, & supported in part by an endowment of £400 bestowed in 1849 by James Davies, formerly of Devauden, to whose memory a tablet was erected in the chancel of the church; Jonathan Badcock, master.

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Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire 1914

LLANGATTOCK LLINGOED is a parish and small village, 3 miles east from Llanvihangel station on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, and 7 northeast from Abergavenny, 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. Cadoc is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: between the chancel and nave is a beautiful rood screen of the date of Henry VI. The church plate includes a chalice and paten of hammered silver, the latter forming a cover: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1696. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £85, with residence and 16½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1894 by the Rev. George Beynon Jones B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter.

There are some quarries of very good stone, much used for building purposes. The Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the manor, and Reginald Vaughan esq. of Glen Trothy, Llantillio Crossenny are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand, subsoil, heavy clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, apples, with much pasture land. The area is 1,944 acres, rateable value, £1,436, the population in 1891 was 181.

Post Office.- Joseph Davies, sub-postmaster. Letters through Abergavenny arrive at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 3.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Llanvihangel Crucorney is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 4 miles distant

National Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1848, for 50 children & since enlarged in 1887. Average attendance, 47, & supported in part by an endowment of £400 bestowed in 1849 by James Davies, formerly of Devauden, to whose memory a tablet was erected in the chancel of the church; Jonathan Badcock, master.

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Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire 1920

Llangattock Lingoed is a parish and small village, 3 miles east from Llanvihangel station on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, and 7 north-east from Abergavenny, in the Monmouth 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 Cadoc is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled tower containing 3  bells: and between the chancel and nave is a beautiful rood screen of the date of Henry VI.: the church plate includes a chalice and paten of hammered silver, the latter forming a cover: there are 105 sittings. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £175, with residence and 16½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff, and held since 1917 by the Rev. John Griffith. There are some quarries of very good stone, much used for building purposes. The Marquess of Abergavenny , who is the lord of the manor, and Roger Vaughan, esq. are the principal landowners. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, apples, with much pasture land. The area is 1,944 acres; rateable value, £1,574; the population in 1911 was 135.