MALPAS, a parish, with a village, in Newport district, Monmouth; on the Brecon and Newport canal and on the Eastern Valleys railway, adjacent to the riVer Usk, 1¾ mile NNW of Newport. Post town, Newport, Monmouth. Acres, 988. Real property, £2,234. Pop., 304. Houses, 59. The property is divided among a few. Malpas Court is the seat of T. Protheroe, Esq. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Montacute abbey in Somerset, was founded here, in the time of Henry I., by William de Balun; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Herberts. The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £100. Patron, T-Protheroe, Esq. The church belonged to the priory: is in rough Norman architecture, of unhewn stone, and in good condition; has neither aisle nor spire: and contains stalls and an effigies of the 14th century. There is a national school.

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