Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PILL-GWENLLY

PILL-GWENLLY, a chapelry in St. Woollos parish Monmouth; on the river Usk, immediately below Newport. It contains the Newport docks, and part of Newport town; and has a post-office‡ under Newport, Monmouth. Pop., about 7,000. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. See Newport.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: St Woolloos AP/CP       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Pillgwenlly

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