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MACHEN, Monmouthshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
The surface is hilly, and the soil gravel, alternating with clay. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £14, and the rectorial for one of £649 3s. 9d. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Llandaff, value £351. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The charities, including a school endowment, amount to about £16 per annum. The Baptists, Independents, Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, each have chapels. There are good schools for boys and girls, and an infants' school, built by the late Sir Charles Morgan. Machen Plas is the principal residence. In the vicinity are several mineral springs and the remains of a castle."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]