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REDWICK, Monmouthshire

"REDWICK, a chapelry in the parish of Magor, lower division of Caldicot hundred, county Monmouth, 7 miles S.E. of Newport, its post town, and 12 from Chepstow. The village, which is small, is situated on the Bristol Channel. The living is annexed to the vicarage* of Magor, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum. There is a National school."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Bibliography

• Jones, Malcolm. Caldicot and the villages of the Moor in old photographs : including the villages of Portskewett, Sudbrook, Rogiet, Undy, Magor and Redwick. Volume 1. Abertillery : Old Bakehouse, 1995. 128p.
• Locock, Martin. A prehistoric trackway at Cold Harbour Pill, Redwick, Gwent. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 8 (1997), p. 9-12..

Church History

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G   Jones, & D. Williams. UWP,  Cardiff, 1976. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.  Check with  Gwent RO to see what extant records are held, and possible names of chapels/churches established after 1851.

Redwick Chapelry, Part of the Parish of Magor; Statistics; Area 7794 acres; Population 143 males, 138 females, total 281

• Redwick Parish Church        Attendance - morning 27 + 12 scholars   1 service in English         D Jones, Curate
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• Salem Chapel, Baptist          Erected 1832    Attendance - morning 21 + 13 scholars, evening 68       Thomas Leonard, Baptist Minister    

Church Records

See the Monmouthshire county page for links to online records

• This list of parish records is intended as a rough guide to coverage only. Their location as stated should be confirmed with the appropriate Record Office prior to any visit.

  Redwick, St Thomas's Church - records with the Gwent RO
  Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
  1699-1721, 1785-1938	1719-21, 1754-1811, 1813-1969	1785-1813
  Bishops Transcripts	1725-37, 1739, 1741-9, 1751-1879 - records with the NLW

  [Details as published in The Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 1986 - present location/availability may vary]

Description and Travel

• Redwick - on Vision of Britain
• Redwick - on wikipedia
• Redwick photographs - on geograph.org.uk

Maps

• Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.  Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

• View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

(Last updated - Gareth Hicks  - 14 April  2011)

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