Llanmartin, Monmouthshire

Description
Llanmartin, a parish in Monmouthshire, 2 1/4 miles NW of Magor station on the S Wales section of the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 E of Newport. It has a post office under Newport; money order and telegraph office, Magor. It contains the hamlet of Llandevaud, and comprises 1123 acres; population of the civil parish, 152; of the ecclesiastical, 139. Penycoed Castle is a Tudor building on the site of a former edifice. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Wilcrick, in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £222 with residence. The church is dedicated to St Martin, and was rebuilt in 1858, and contains an altar-tomb of the time of Henry VII. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel. The living of Llandevaud is a separate benefice.