Kemeys Inferior, Monmouthshire
Historical Description
Kemeys Inferior, a parish in Monmouthshire, on the river Usk, 3 miles NE of Caerleon, and 3 N by E of Llan-wern station on the G.W.R. Post town, Caerleon, under Newport. Acreage, 1622; population, 122. More than a third of the area is woodland. The ancient manor house is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value,, £112. The church is good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Monmouthshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Kemeys-Inferior All Saints | |
Hundred | Usk | |
Poor Law union | Newport | |
Registration district | Newport | 1837 - 1936 |
Registration district | Caerleon | 1936 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Kemeys Inferior from 1837 to 1936 you should search for the Newport Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Kemeys Inferior from 1936 to 1974 you should search for the Caerleon Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kemeys Inferior from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kemeys-Inferior (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Kemeys Inferior are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: