Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BETTWS

BETTWS, a parish in Newport district, Monmouth; on the Crumlin canal, near the Avon-Ilwyd railway, 2½ miles NW of Newport. Post Town, Newport, Monmouth. Acres, 1,132. Real property, £1,236. Pop., 84. Houses, 15. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy annexed to St. Woollas-Newport, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is bad.


(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: Betws AP/CP       Newport RegD/PLU       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Betws

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