Witston, or Whitson

WITSTON, or Whitson, a parish, in the union of Newport, division of Christchurch, hundred of Calpicot, county of Monmouth, 6½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Newport; containing 108 inhabitants. It comprises 842 acres; the surface is flat, and the soil clay. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 7. 8½., and in the alternate patronage of the Chapter of Llandaff and the Provost of Eton College, owners of the great tithes; net income, £180. The church, according to tradition, belonged to Portown, a place in the neighbourhood swallowed up by the sea at some remote period.