Place:Mounton, Monmouthshire, Wales

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NameMounton
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.636°N 2.704°W
Located inMonmouthshire, Wales     ( - 1974)
See alsoCaldicot Hundred, Monmouthshire, Waleshundred in which it was located
Chepstow Rural, Monmouthshire, Walesrural district in which it was located 1894-1935
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Walescivil parish to which it was transferred in 1935
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Mounton is a hamlet in Monmouthshire, Wales, located two miles west of Chepstow in a rural setting.

The parish was originally part of the holdings of Chepstow Priory, with the name Monktown. It has a tiny parish church dedicated to St. Andoenus, which was almost wholly rebuilt in 1880 and which now lies in the episcopal parish of Mathern and Mounton with St Pierre.

The furnishings in the Sanctuary are mainly a memorial to Capt. Ian Oswald Lidell, VC, 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards, killed in action in 1945. The stained glass windows are memorials to the Evill and Bragington families. One of the gravestones in the cemetery, to a Christopher Cooper who died on 8 April 1680, indicates that the churchyard is much older than the present church building.

Until the late 19th century the village had three water mills, producing paper, carpets and cloth. These were called Lady Mill, Lark Mill and Linnet Mill. The last owner, John Birt, closed the mills down in 1876 after being accused of polluting Mounton Brook. According to Fred Hando (1888–1970), a writer from Newport, one of the mills produced the paper used for Bank of England banknotes, but a monograph by another local historian, Ivor Waters, states that they "rarely made anything but brown and blue packing paper", using old rags, rope and straw as raw materials.

In 1935, in a move to reduce the number of parishes within Chepstow Rural District, Mounton was absorbed into the civil parish of Mathern which also contained the larger parish of Mathern and St. Pierre which is situated immediately to the south of Mounton.


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