Wentloog (hundred)

Wentloog (hundred)

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"Wentloog within Monmouthshire"
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AreaLast= 66,160 acres
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DensityLastYear= Wentloog (also spelled Wentlloog or Wentllooge) is an ancient hundred of Monmouthshire. It is also known as Newport hundred.

It is situated in the western part of the county, bounded to the north by Brecknockshire; on the east by the hundreds of Abergavenny, Usk and Caldicot; on the south by the Bristol Channel, and on the west by Glamorganshire. "Wentloog" is an anglicisation of the Welsh "Gwynllŵg", the name of the early kingdom and mediæval "cantref".

It contains the following ancient parishes:


*Aberystruth
*Bassaleg: consisting of Duffryn township, Graig hamlet and Rogerstone township
*Bedwas
*Bettws
*Coedkernew
*Henllys
*Llanfihangel Llantarnam
*Llanhilleth
*Machen
*Malpas
*Marshfield
*Michaelston y vedw
*Mynyddislwyn
*Newport
*Peterstone Wentlooge
*Risca
*Rumney
*St. Brides Wentlooge
*St. Mellons
*St. Woolos

ee also

*Wentloog community (parish)
*Gwynllwg

External links

* [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10104610 Wentloog Hundred on a Vision of Britain]


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