Llangenni, Breconshire
Historical Description
Llangenny or Llangenau, a parish in Brecknockshire, at the influx of the Grwyney to the Usk, 1½ mile SE of Crickhowell, and 4 miles NW of Abergavenny. Post town, Crickhowell. Acreage, 2817; population, 471. Cwrt-y-Gollen is a chief residence. Paper-making is carried on. A maen-hir, 13 feet high, is near Cwrt-y-Gollen. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llan-gattock, in the diocese of St David's. The church was dedicated to St Ceneu or Keyne, and there is a well whose waters have the same kind of popular repute as those of St Keyne's Well in Cornwall. A bell, supposed to have belonged to St Ceneu's Oratory, was found near the well in 1809. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Registration district | Crickhowell | 1837 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Breconshire is online.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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