Monkswood
MONKSWOOD, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Pont-y-Pool, division and hundred of Usk, county of Monmouth, 2¾ miles (N. W. by W.) from the town of Usk; containing 166 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £69; patron and impropriator, the Duke of Beaufort.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.