Place:Llanfrechfa, Monmouthshire, Wales

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

"LLANVRECHVA, a parish of two divisions, Lower and Upper, in Pontypool [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]; on an affluent of the river Usk, 1¾ mile NE of Llantarnam railway] station, and 2½ NNW of Caerleon. Post town: Caerleon, under Newport, Monmouth[shire]. Acres: 4,320. Real property of the lower division: £3,700. Population in 1851: 985; in 1861: 933. Houses: 207. Real property of the upper division: £4,678; of which £1,000 are in mines, £62 in quarries, and £250 in railways. Population in 1851: 1,517; in 1861: 1,621. Houses: 296. The property is much subdivided. Woollen manufacture is carried on. The living is a vicarage united with the chapelry of Cumbrane [Cwmbran], in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £85. Patrons: the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The church was reported in 1859 as not good. A national school was built in 1862. Charities: £5."

Llanfrechfa or Llanvrechva was an ancient and civil parish. It was the location of the workhouse for the Pontypool Poor-law Union. Woollen goods were manufactured. (Source: The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868), as reproduced by GENUKI).

By the end of the 19th century the importance of the central parish had receded and the two divisions had become the individual civil parishes of Llanfrechfa Upper and Llanfrechfa Lower.

Wikipedia does not provide an article on Llanvrechfa, but redirects the reader to Pontypool where Llanvrechfa is not mentioned amongst the towns surrounding it.