Place:Peterstone Wentlloog, Monmouthshire, Wales

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"PETERSTONE, a parish in Newport [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]; on the coast, 1 mile S of Marshfield [railway] station, and 6 S W by S of Newport. Post-town: Newport, Monmouth. Acres: 3,234; of which 1,100 are water. Real property: £3, 200. Population: 180. Houses: 33. The property is much subdivided. The surface is part of Went-llooge level. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £57. Patrons: the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church was built by Maud, the daughter of Fitzhamon; and was recently in very bad condition.

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Peterstone Wentlloog or Peterstone (Welsh: Llanbedr Gwynllŵg) is a small hamlet to the southwest of the city of Newport in south Wales. It lies six miles to the west of the city centre and 7½ miles east of Cardiff city centre.

Like most of the settlements on the Wentlooge Level it lies on land reclaimed from the Bristol Channel. Peterstone itself lies right against the sea wall.

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