Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROCKFIELD

ROCKFIELD, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Monmouth; on the river Monnow, 2¾ miles N W of Monmouth r. station. It has a post-office under Monmouth. Acres, 1, 993. Real property, £2, 429. Pop., 270. Houses, 56. The property is much sub-divided. R. House is a chief residence. The parish is a meet for the Monmouthshire hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, not reported. Patron, Sir J. D. Harding. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rockfield CP/AP       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Rockfield

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