Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TREVETHIN

TREVETHIN-popularly Trebden- a parish in Pontypool district, Monmouth; nominally 1 mile NNE of Pontypool r. station, but containing Pontypool town, which has a head post-office. Acres, 11,329. Real property, £57,320: of which £4,160 are in mines, £13,900 in ironworks, £34 in quarries, £347 in railways, and £187 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 16,864; in 1861, 18,146. Houses, 3,571. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llan-daff. Value, not reported.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of L. The church was restored in 1847. The p. curacies of Abersychan and Pontnewnydd are separate benefices. See Pontypool.


(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: Trevethin CP/AP       Pont Y Pool RegD/PLU       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Trevethin

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