Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOVILON

GOVILON, a chapelry in Llanwenarth parish, Monmouth; on the Abergavenny and Merthyr railway, 3 miles W of Abergavenny. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Abergavenny. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £274. Patron, the Rector of Llanwenarth. The church is neat.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Llanwenarth AP       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Govilon

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