Panteg, Monmouthshire

Historical Description

Panteg, a village and a parish in Monmouthshire. The village stands three-quarters of a mile E of the river Avon Llwyd, and 2½ miles SE of Pontypool. It has a station on the Eastern Valley section of the G.W.R., and a post and money order office under Pontypool; telegraph office, Griffith's Town. The parish contains also the villages of Pontymoel, Sebastopol, Cwmynysgoy, Penyrheol, Pontyrhydyryn, and Upper and Lower Race. Acreage, 3560; population, 3746. There are extensive iron, tinplate, and steel works, collieries, quarries, and firebrick works. The parish is governed by an urban district council of twelve members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £206 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1876, but retains a tower of the 15th century. There are Congregational chapels and a mission hall and institute.

Administration

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Panteg from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Panteague (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Panteg are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail
• South Wales Echo
• Monmouthshire Beacon
• Abergavenny Chronicle