Place:Llanbaddock, Monmouthshire, Wales

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"LLANBADDOCK, a parish, with a village, in Pontypool [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]; on the river Usk, 1 mile S of Usk town and [railway] station. Post town: Usk, under Newport, Monmouth. Acres: 3,465. Real property: £3,747: of which £91 are in fisheries. Population: 452. Houses: 104. The property is much subdivided. The road from Usk to Caerleon traverses the parish, and goes, for some distance, between the bank of the Usk and a wooded precipice. Traces of the Julian way are in the vicinity. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £72. Patron: the Rev. T. A. Williams. The church is dedicated to St. Madocus, and is good. There are a school with £8 a year from endowment, and other charities £7.

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Llanbadoc (Welsh: Llanbadog Fawr) is a village and former civil parish in the ceremonial county of Monmouthshire in Wales.The population of the village at the 2011 census was 806.

The village is in the Newport postal district of NP15, just across the River Usk from the town of Usk (Welsh: Brynbuga), off the A472 road.

There are not many facilities in this small village - there is a village and parish church, a garage, a saw mill, an open prison and an agricultural college.

Llanbadoc is the birthplace (1823) of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).

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Llanbaddock is located directly west of the town of Usk and north of the parish of Llangibby. A Vision of Britain through Time reported that it contained the chapelry of Cilfeigan, the hamlet of Wern Hir, and the chapelry of Monkswood which later became a separate civil parish to the north.

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