LLANVIHANGEL-LLANTARNAM, a parish in Newport district, Monmouth; on the river A fon-Llwyd, an affluent of the Usk, adjacent to the Eastern Valleys railway, 3½ miles N of Newport. It has a station, of the name of Llantarnam, on the railway; and its Post town is Caerleon, under Newport, Monmouth. Acres, 4,092. Real property, £6,1 00; of which £1,000 are in ironworks, and £13 on the railway. Pop. in 1851,1,228; in 1861, 1,301. Houses, 263. The property is much subdivided. A Cistertian abbey stood here; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Morgans. Llantarnam House was built from the materials of the abbey; is a Tudor edifice; belonged, for a time, to the Morgans; and is now the seat of E. Blewitt, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £108. Patron, E. Blewitt, Esq. The church is good.

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