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Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1929

Transcription by Richard Lane © 2003

LLANGROVE or LONG GROVE.

LONGGROVE, or Llangrove, formerly a hamlet of Llangarron was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1856, from Llangarron and Whitchurch; it is 4½ miles north from Monmouth Station and 3 north-west from Symonds Yat Station, both on the Great Western Railway, 7 south-west from Ross, and 15 south from Hereford, in the Hereford division of the county, Wormelow hundred, Ross county court district and union, Harewood End petty sessional division, rural deanery of Archenfield and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. Christ Church, erected in 1856, at the cost of Mrs. Marriott, of Sellarsbroke, is a plain edifice of stone, in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisle, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: there is a tablet at the south end of the church in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. The register dates from the year 1857. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop and Archdeacon of Hereford, and held since 1928 by the Rev. Edgar Arnold Gray M.A. of Oxford University. There is a Wesleyan Chapel and a Congregational Chapel, erected in 1852, and seating 100 persons. Near the church is a wayside cross, erected in memory of the men of Llangrove who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. Mrs. E. F. Bosanquet is lady of the manor. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, sandstone rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area and rateable value is included with Llangarron; the population in1921 was 474.

   TREWEN, 1 mile south, is a hamlet.

   Post Office.- Letters from Ross, Herefordshire. Llangarron nearest money order & telegraph office.

LONG-GROVE (or LLANGROVE)
(For T. N.'s see general list of Private Residents at end of book)
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Gilkes Ernest Osmond, Larks Gate Rosser Thomas, Sycamores
Gray Rev. Edgar Arnold M.A. Vicarage Williams John, Mapps Pool
COMMERCIAL
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over
Andrews Herbert, cottage farmer, Yew Tree Cottage Lane Davis, farmer, Glascombe
Davies Frederick Leon, farmer, Llangrove Cottage Lewis William, Royal Arms P. H.
° Deeley William Arthur, farmer, Trewarne Matthews Frank W. blacksmith
° Denston Frank G. farmer, Treduccan Matthews Harry, motor engineer. T.N. Whitchurch 6
° Evans John & sons, farmers, Hill Farm, Llancloudy Miles Chas. Farmer, Llancagee
Freer Charles, grocer, Post Office Powell William, stonemason
Haywood Bros. wheelwright ° Turner Fredk. Jn. Farmer, Ruxton
° Huxley Edward, farmer, Penblaith, Llancloudy Watkins Alfd A. farmer, Marks Farm
Jones Henry, farmer, Tretawdy Wheeler James, wheelwright
Jones John Edward, farmer, Treworgan. T.N. Llangarron 6. Williams James & sons, nurserymen, The nurseries
Jones Tom Allen, shopkeeper  
TREWEN (Near Whitchurch, Ross)
Ruxton Col. Robert M. C., O.B.E., The Ragged House Smith Misses, Currier Court
COMMERCIAL
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over
Foden Jn. Herbt, farmer, Great Trewen Powell Charles O., farmer, Symonds Trewen
Griffiths Rd. farmer, Little Trewen ° Thomas Jn. H. E., farmer, Upper Trewen

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1929 in Hereford Central Library]