Description
Llangua, a parish in Monmouthshire, on the river Monnow, at the boundary with Herefordshire, 1 1/4 mile SSW of Pon-trilas station on the G.W.R. and Golden Valley railway, and 10 miles NE of Abergavenny. Post town, Hereford ; money order office, Grosmont; telegraph office, Pontrilas. Acreage, 711; population, 82. A small monastic establishment was here. The manor and church were given to the Xormandian abbey of Lire before 1183. After the dissolution it came to Shene, Surrey. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Kentchurch, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is ancient, with a Saxon window and Norman font.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
