Llanvihangel nigh Usk, Monmouthshire
Historical Description
Llanvihangel-nigh-Usk or Llanvihangel Gobion, a village and a parish in Monmouthshire, on the river Usk, 2¼ miles NNE of Nantyderry station on the G.W.R., and 4½ SE of Abergavenny. There is a post and telegraph office called Llanvihangel Gobion, under Abergavenny; money order office, Abergavenny. Acreage, 388; population, 105. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £200. The church is good. 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.
Ancient County | Monmouthshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Llanvihangel-Near-Usk St. Michael | |
Hundred | Abergavenny | |
Poor Law union | Abergavenny | |
Registration district | Abergavenny | 1837 - 1935 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
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For births, marriages, and deaths in Llanvihangel nigh Usk from 1837 to 1935 you should search for the Abergavenny Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Llanvihangel nigh Usk from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Llanvihangel-Near-Usk (St. Michael))
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