- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
Llanmartin (Welsh: Llanfarthyn) is a village and parish in the City of Newport, Wales. The parish contains several communities and is centred on the parish church, which is dedicated to St. Martin, and which gives the name "Llan" for church or holy ground. The name is an anglicised version of the Welsh Llanfarthyn which has the same meaning.
Penycoed, with its castle, is situated nearby. A small hamlet within the parish of Llanmartin, it consists of farms and a number of houses. The Old Barn is an old barn (c. 1800) which has been converted to a local public house serving quality food and drink. Within St. Martin's Church is the great stone tomb of Sir Nicolas Morgan, the Knight of Pencoed Castle in the reign of Henry VII. The frieze carved on the tomb shows Sir Nicolas' seven sons to his right and seven daughters to his left.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Llanmartin from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LLANMARTIN, a parish in Newport [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]; near the South Wales railway, 2 ½ miles NE by E of Llanwern [railway] station, and 4 ESE of Caerleon. It contains the hamlet of Llandevand; and its Post town is Newport, Monmouth[shire]. Acres: 941. Real property: £1,422. Population: 181. Houses: 32. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Wilerick, in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £250. Patron: W. P. Herrick, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Martin, and is good. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. The parish has an interest in the alms house of Chepstow."
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