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Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom, containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the small islands dependent
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London G.B. Whittaker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hetown and surrounding country. Half amile from the town is Troy-House, the seatof the duke of Beaufort, where is shewnthe cradle in which Henry V.was rocked,and the armour he wore at the battle ofAgincourt. The market on Saturday iswell supplied. Fairs, Whit-Tuesday, Sept. 4,and Nov. 22. It is a vie. value 9/. 2a. 3d. Monmouthshire, a county of England,bounded on the N. W. by Brecon, on the N.E. by Hereford, on the E. by Gloucester,on the S. by the Severn, and on the W. byGlamorgan. It is about 24 miles long, and20 broad, containing 318,720 acres of land,having about 100,000 acres arable, 200,500acres in pasturage, and about 18,000 un-cultivated, including woodlands. It is di-vided into six hundreds ; viz. Abergavenny,Caldicot, Ragland, Skenfreth, Usk, andWentloodge; containing one borough,Monmouth; six market-towns; viz. Aber-gavenny, Caerleon, Chepstow, Newport,Pontypool, and Usk, with 127 parishes,13,21*1 houses, inhabited by71.S:,S persons;viz. 37,278 males and 84*553 females, of
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MON ENGLAND AND WALES. MON whom 6147 families are employed in tradeand manufactures, and 6020 families in agri-culture. The total amount of property as-sessed in IS 15, was £295,097; and theamount of poors-rates, on an average of 3years, in 1815, was £37,816, being at therate of 2>\ 6fi. in the pound, on the totalproperty. The scale of mortality ap-pears to have been as 1 to 70 of the popu-lation. Monmouthshire sends 3 mem-bers to parliament; viz. 2 for the countyand 1 for the borough of Monmouth; itlies in the diocese of Llandaff, province ofCanterbury, and in the Oxford circuit. Thiswas formerly one of the Welsh counties.Its principal rivers are the Usk, Wye,Mynnovv, and Ebwy. The Usk dividesthe county into two equal portions, ofwhich the eastern, or largest, is very fertilein corn and pasturage, and well wooded;it abounds with limestone, which is burnton the spot, and makes excellent manure.The smaller, or western part, is mountain-ous, and mostly unfavourable for cultiva-tion

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