Llandenny, Monmouthshire

Historical Description

Llandenny, a village and a parish in Monmouthshire. The village stands on the Olway Brook, 3½ miles NE of Usk, and has'a station on the G.W.R., and a post office under Newport; money order and telegraph office, Raglan. The parish comprises 2302 acres; population, 389. Cefn Tilla Court is the seat of Lord Raglan; it was the headquarters of Fairfax during the siege of Raglan Castle in the Civil War. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £15 from "glebe "land. Patron, the Duke of Beaufort. The church is dedicated to St John, is ancient, and was restored in 1865. Thert is a church mission chapel at the Kingcoed and a Baptist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Llandenny from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Llandenny (St. John))

Maps

Online maps of Llandenny 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:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail
• South Wales Echo
• Monmouthshire Beacon
• Abergavenny Chronicle