GENUKI: Llanbadog / Llanbadock, Monmouthshire (original) (raw)

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"LLANBADDOCK, (or Llanbadog), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Usk, county Monmouth, 1½ mile S. of Usk, its post town, and 5 miles E. of Pontypool. The river Usk, which flows through the parish, is here crossed by a stone bridge leading to the town of Usk. The village is situated on the road from Caerleon to Usk, which for some distance occupies the space between the river bank and a wooded precipice. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Llandaff, value £72. The church is dedicated to St. Madocus. The charities, including £8 to Hughe's school, produce about £15 per annum. There is a Sunday-school. In the vicinity are traces of the old Roman road Julia Strata." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)

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