Marshfield / MaerunExtract from Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire & South Wales, 1895.Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2011 MARSHFIELD, otherwise St. Mary's Field, is a parish on the Cardiff and Newport road, with a station (in the parish of Peterstone), 1¼ miles south-east from the village on the Great Western (South Wales) railway, 6½ miles south-east from Cardiff, 1½ miles from the Bristol Channel, 150 miles from London and 5½ south-west from Newport, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Wentloog, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Newport, rural deanery of Newport, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff. The parish is intersected by the rivers Usk, the Ebbw and the Rumney. The Usk is navigable as far as the ancient city of Caerleon. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone in Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, south porch and a lofty tower with spire containing 6 bells: the restoration of the church, begun in 1867, has been since continued: in 1883 the chancel floor was relaid, and a reredos erected by Capt. Ferdinand Walker: an organ has been placed in a new chamber on the north side of the chancel: the south porch is entered through a fine Norman arch: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1656. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge commuted at £50, average £40, gross yearly value £105, net £81, including 35 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, and held since 1855 by the Rev. Samuel Evanss of St. David's College, Lampeter, who is also vicar of Peterstone. The Baptist chapel was erected in 1853 at a cost of £2,000, and will seat 700 persons. The Wesleyan chapel is a stone building in the Decorated style, erected in 1854 at a cost of about £2,000, with sittings for about 200 persons. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel to seat about 150 persons. Craig-yr-haul, the residence of Colonel Frederick John Justice; Castleton, the residence of Sir George F.R. Walker bart. D.L., J.P.; Bryn-Ivor Hall, the residence of John Wyndham Beynon esq. and "Llwynarthan" Castleton, the residence of Franklen George Evans esq. J.P. for counties of Monmouth and Glamorgan, are the principal mansions in this parish. Lord Tredegar, who is lord of the manor, Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte esq. and J. H. Stubbs esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, gravel The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, roots and pasture. The area is 2,300 acres; rateable value, £2,386; the population in 1891 was 564. Parish Clerk, William Morgan. Post, M.O. & T.O., S.B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, Castleton.- Edward Cosslett, sub-postmaster. Letters through Cardiff, arrive at 7.10 a.m.; dispatched at 3.40 & 6.20 p.m Post Office, Blacktown.- Mrs. Fanny Jones, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Castleton is the nearest money order & telegraph office Wall Letter Box at Cross roads, cleared at 5.35 p.m. week days only National School (mixed), erected, with master's residence, in 1861, at a cost of £1,500, for 200 children; average attendance, 70; Thomas Deeth, master; Miss Florence Emily Deeth, mistress Railway Station, Albert Smith, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Kendall Edward Ambrose, tailor |
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