Llanishen, Monmouthshire

Description
Llanishen, a parish in Monmouthshire, near Olway Brook, 4 miles E by S of Llandenny station on the G.W.R., and 7 SSW of Monmouth. It has a post office under Chepstow; money order office, Trelleck; telegraph office, Tintern. Acreage, 1575 ; population of the civil parish, 202 ; of the ecclesiastical, 214. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Trelleck Grange annexed, in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Beaufort. The church is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5