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Bishton (St. Cadwallader)

BISHTON (St. Cadwallader), a parish, in the union of Newport, Christchurch division of the hundred of Caldicot, county of Monmouth, 6 miles (S. E.) from Newport; containing 187 inhabitants. It comprises about 1200 acres; the surface, though level, is elevated, and commands a fine view of the Severn and the country on the opposite bank. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Llandaff: the church is in the early English style of architecture. There are some remains of an ancient castle.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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