Place:


Cemais  Monmouthshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cemais like this:

KEMEYS-INFERIOR, a parish in Newport district, Monmouth: on the river Usk, 3 miles NE of Caerleon, and 4 N by E of Llanwern r. station. Post town, Caerleon, under Newport, Monmouth. Acres, 1, 676. Real property, £1, 689. Pop., 122. Houses, 22. The property is divided among a few. More than a third of the area is woodland. Stone for paving and for roofing is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £130. Patron, the Rev. W.Risley. The church is good.

Cemais through time

Cemais is now part of Newport district. Click here for graphs and data of how Newport has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cemais itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cemais, in Newport and Monmouthshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1613

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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