Sudbrook or Southbrook, Monmouthshire
Historical Description
Sudbrook or Southbrook, a quondam parish, now incorporated with Portskewett, in Monmouthshire, 4¼ miles SW by S of Chepstow. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chepstow. The western end of the Severn Tunnel constructed by the G.W.R. company is here, and a small town has sprung up in connection with the works. Sudbrook and Portskewett now form a civil parish with a parish council of thirteen members. The old parish church is in ruins, but there is a mission hall which is used for divine service, public meetings, &c. There are also a reading-room and library, and an orphanage. The living still ranks as a rectory, annexed to Portskewett.
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 | Sudbrook The Trinity | |
Hundred | Caldicot | |
Poor Law union | Chepstow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sudbrook or Southbrook from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sudbrook, or Southbrook (The Trinity))
Newspapers and Periodicals
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