Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENALTH

PENALTH, a parish in the district and county of Monmouth; on the river Wye, 1½ mile S S E of Monmouth r. station. Post-town, Monmouth. Acres, 2, 284. Real property, £2, 656. Pop., 458. Houses, 109. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Trelleck, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is pretty good. Charities, £12.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Penalt CP/AP       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Penalt

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