Whitson or Witson, Monmouthshire
Historical Description
Whitson or Witson, a parish in Monmouthshire, 2½ miles SSE of Llanwern station on the South Wales section of the G.W.R., and 6½ SE of Newport. It has a post office under Newport; money order and telegraph office, Maindee. Acreage, 1086; population, 107. Whitson Court is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £177 with residence. Patron, alternately the Chapter of Llandaff and Eton College. The church is Early English and has been restored and partly rebuilt. It contains a Norman font.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Monmouthshire | |
Hundred | Calpicot | |
Poor Law union | Newport |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Whitson or Witson from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Witston, or Whitson)
Newspapers and Periodicals
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