Fwthog (Cwmyoy), Herefordshire
Extract from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7
with Private and Commercial Residents
Transcription by Rosemary Lockie © 2004
FWTHOG, or FWDDOG, is a hamlet of the parish of Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire,
being isolated and surrounded by that county, although
belonging to the county of Hereford. It is distant 24 miles S.W. of
Hereford, 8 from Abergavenny, 8 from Crickhowell, and about 5 from
Llanvihangel Crucorney station on the Great Western railway; is in
Abergavenny union and county court district, Longtown polling district,
and Dore petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 110; in
1871, 100; inhabited houses, 23; families or separate occupiers, 23;
area, 2,081 acres; annual rateable value, £590. It is chiefly mountain
land.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters are received through Abergavenny,
which is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town.
COMMERCIAL.
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Dodd David, farmer, Pant
Lewis James, farmer
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Powell James, New Inn
Williams John, farmer, Ty-mawr
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[OCR/Transcription by Rosemary Lockie in April 2004
from a copy of Littlebury's Directory of Herefordshire, 1876-7 in Hereford Central Library]
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