Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GWERNESNEY

GWERNESNEY, a parish in Pontypool district, Monmouth; on the Pontypool and Monmouth railway, near Olway brook, 2½ miles E by N of Usk. Post town, Usk, under Newport, Monmouth. Acres, 543. Real property, £825. Pop., 57. Houses, 11. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £112.* Patron, the Duke of Beaufort. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Gwernesney CP/AP       Pont Y Pool RegD/PLU       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Gwernesney

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