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Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire

Historical Description

Chapel Hill, a parish in Monmouthshire, on the river Wye, 5½ miles N of Chepstow. It contains Tintern Abbey. Pest town, Chepstow; money order and telegraph office, Tintem. Acreage, 1307; population, 462. There is a tin-plate manufactory. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £68. Patron, the Duke of Beaufort. The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 186G. There is a Wesleyan chapel. See TINTERN ABBEY.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyMonmouthshire 
HundredRaglan 
Poor Law unionChepstow 
Registration districtChepstow1837 - 1935

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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For births, marriages, and deaths in Chapel Hill from 1837 to 1935 you should search for the Chepstow Registration District.


Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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CountyMonmouthshire
RegionSouth Wales

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