Michaelstone-Le-Vedw (St. Michael)
MICHAELSTONE-LE-VEDW (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and division of Newport, partly in the hundred of Wentlloog, county of Monmouth, and partly in the hundred of Caerphilly, county of Glamorgan, 5¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Newport; containing 541 inhabitants, of whom 204 are in the English part. The parish comprises 3556 acres, of which 1014 are arable, 2124 pasture, and 400 woodland. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 12. 3½.; net income, £400; patron, C. Kemeys Tynte, Esq.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.