Place:Michaelstone y Fedw, Monmouthshire, Wales

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Michaelstone y Fedw (Welsh: Llanfihangel y fedw) is a small rural village and community to the west of the city of Newport, Wales, and on the border of Cardiff city and Caerphilly County Borough.

The name, which is a partial Anglicization of the Welsh Llanfihangel-y-fedw – meaning "church enclosure (of) Michael (in) the birches" – may also be seen spelt Michaelston-y-Vedw and Michaelstone-y-Vedw, the parish church being dedicated to Saint Michael. Spellings without the hyphens are also found.

The community is bounded by the Rhymney River to the west, the A48(M) motorway to the south, and the Pound Hill road to the north and east. It contains Michaelston itself as well as a small cluster of houses known as Michaelstone Bridge about a mile to the north.

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

"MICHAELSTONE-Y-VEDW, a hamlet and a parish in the [registration] district of Newport; the hamlet in Monmouth[shire], the parish partly also in Glamorgan. The hamlet lies on the river Rumney, at the boundary with Glamorgan, 2½ miles NW of Marshfield [railway] station, and 5 SW of Newport. Acres: 1,134. Real property: £1,110. Population: 203. Houses, 43. The parish contains also the hamlet of Llanvedw, which is in its Glamorgan portion. Acres of that hamlet: 2,299. Real property: £1,962. Population: 309. Houses: 62. Post town: Newport, Monmouth. The property is divided between two. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £500. Patron: Col. K. K. Tynte. The church is good. There are an endowed school with £64 a year, and charities £11."

(Llanvedw has its own page under Glamorgan, Wales.

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