Place:Gilwern, Breconshire, Wales

Gilwern, a village in Llanelly parish, Breconshire, 4 miles ENE of Brynmawr, and 4 WSW of Abergavenny. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R.½ and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Abergavenny. There are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. - Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5