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- source: Family History Library Catalog
| NOTE: Two parishes which could easily be confused are Ifton and Itton. They were both in Chepstow Rural District between 1894 and 1935, but Ifton is on the Severn Estuary between Chepstow and Newport, while Itton is inland.
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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ifton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "IFTON, a parish in Chepstow [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]; on the South Wales railway, adjacent to the Severn, 2 miles NE of Portskewet-Junction [railway] station, and 3 SW of Chepstow. Post town: Chepstow. Acres: 1,155; of which 495 are water. Real property, with Roggiett: £3,058. Population: 20. Houses, 4. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Roggiett, in the diocese of Llandaff. There is no church."
The land immediately east of Rogiet once formed the separate small parish of Ifton. Some Roman pottery was discovered at Ifton Manor. The church was pulled down in 1755. (Source: Wikipedia).
In 1935, in a move to reduce the number of parishes within Chepstow Rural District, Ifton was absorbed into the civil parish of Rogiet.
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