Place:Llanvair Discoed, Monmouthshire, Wales

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NameLlanvair Discoed
Alt namesLamecaresource: Domesday Book (1985) p 115
Llanfair Disgoedsource: Family History Library Catalog
Llanfair Is Coedsource: Welsh translation
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.628°N 2.799°W
Located inMonmouthshire, Wales     ( - 1935)
See alsoCaldicot Lordship, Monmouthshire, Walesancient holding in which it was located
Chepstow Rural, Monmouthshire, Walesrural district in which it was located 1894-1935
Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Walesparish into which it was absorbed in 1935
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Llanvair Discoed from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"LLANVAIR-DISCOED, a township and a parish in Chepstow [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]. The township lies near Went wood, 4 miles NNE of Magor [railway] station, and 5¾ W by S of Chepstow. Acres: 1,316. Real property: £907. Population: 150. Houses: 32.
"The parish contains also the hamlet of Dinham; and its Post town is Chepstow. Acres: 1,986. Real property: £1,533. Population: 187. Houses: 39. The property is divided among a few. Llanvair Castle belonged, in 1270, to the Pagan family; and is now a ruin, comprising a square tower and two round ones, in juxtaposition with a farm-house. Dinham Castle is now reduced to a few wood-covered vestiges. Roman coins, urns, and other relics have been found. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Caerwent, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is good."


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The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Lamecare'. The name means "Mary's (=Mair > Fair) church (=llan) under (=is) the wood (=coed)". The 'd' at the start of Discoed only appears in more recent versions of the name. The correct Welsh language name is Llanfair Is Coed or Llanfair-iscoed. The wood refers to Wentwood, which at the time of the Kingdom of Gwent separated the cantref of Gwent Is Coed ("this side of the wood", as envisaged from Caerwent), from that of Gwent Uwch Coed ("beyond the wood").

The village contains a small ruined castle, believed to have been built by the FitzPayn family, as lords of Llanvair Discoed, in the 13th century.

The village is nestled at the bottom of Gray Hill, and on the road between Caerwent and Usk via Wentwood. It currently has 67 houses, one pub, and the parish church (Church in Wales) which is dedicated to St. Mary.

In 1935, in a move to reduce the number of parishes within Chepstow Rural District, Llanvair Discoed was absorbed into the civil parish of Caerwent.

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