Owners and Occupiers of Land in Longtown, Longtown, 1840’s, Ewyas Lacy Study Group

Held at:	Hereford Record Office
Reference:	Microfilm
Source:	Schedule of Longtown Tithe map
Title:	Owners and Occupiers of Land in Longtown
Place name:	Longtown
Date:	1840’s

Description:

Owner	Occupier	Holding	Acres-roods-perches	Map
Abergavenny, Earl of	Adams, William	Land	6-1-31	40
Abergavenny, Earl of	Arnold, William	Cottage	5-1-6	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Cheese, Dennis	Cottage	1-1-39	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Cole, James	Cottage	0-2-8	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Farr, William	Cottage	0-0-17	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Geary, Nicholas	Cottage	2-1-22	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	George, William	Trelandon Homestead	60-1-34	12
Abergavenny, Earl of	Gwillim, John	Cottage	12-0-8	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Gwillim, John	House	2-3-1	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Gwillim, John (Another)	Land	13-2-22	11
Abergavenny, Earl of	Ireland, Catherine	2 Cottages	3-3-38	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Johnson, Thomas	2 Cottages	3-2-3	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Jones, Eliza	2 Cottages	7-0-14	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Jones, John	Cottage	5-0-38	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Jones, Phillip	Cottage	6-1-1	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Jones, Samuel	Land	68-0-28	12
Abergavenny, Earl of	Lewis, James	Cottage	2-1-37	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Lewis, James	Cottage	3-1-19	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Lewis, Thomas	Land	4-1-35	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Lewis, William	Cottage	0-0-11	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Lloyd, John	Cottage	3-1-21	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Parry, James	Cottage	3-2-16	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Penry, Thomas	Land	4-1-24	15
Abergavenny, Earl of	Phillips, James	Land	2-1-37	32
Abergavenny, Earl of	Phillips, James	Cottage	3-1-29	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Powell, John	Cottage	1-2-16	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Price, John	Moody Homestead	87-0-3	12
Abergavenny, Earl of	Pritchard, William	House	14-2-3	14
Abergavenny, Earl of	Pritchard, John	Land	26-3-4	14
Abergavenny, Earl of	Pritchard, William	Land	17-3-34	57
Abergavenny, Earl of	Pritchard, William (Another)	Cottage	0-0-29	31
Abergavenny, Earl of	Watkins, John	Cottage	5-3-0	30
Abergavenny, Earl of	Williams, John	2 Cottages	9-3-3	31
Adams, William	Pritchard, William	Cold Brook Homestead	65-3-0	40
Allen, Henry	Prosser, John	Land	42-2-22	57
Beavan, Eliza	Self	Land (Cavalandrews)	9-3-4	41
Berrington, Joseph	Self	Cottage	0-0-20	52
Black, John	Self	Cottage	0-0-20	40
Bulmer, Charles	Hale, John	Llanwonog Homestead	145-3-35	13
Cleave, John	George, Arnold	Court Land	24-0-4	12
Cleave, John	Griffiths, James	Homestead	82-0-15	52
Cook, John	Pritchard, Henry	Cottage	0-0-24	15
Cook, John	Self	Cottage	0-0-24	15
Cornwall, Sir Velters	Farr, William	Cottage	0-0-34	40
Duke, John	Pritchard, Edward	Cottage	0-0-34	14
Edwards, John	Rogers, William	Upper Hunt House Homestead	144-3-18	57
Farr, Elizabeth	Watkins, John	Cottage	0-0-20	42
Farr, Jane	Self	Cottage	0-2-18	50
George, Arnold	Self	Land	9-3-37	10
George, James Gilbert	Phillips, William	The Upper House (land)	32-0-11	54
Gethen, David	Self	Cottage	0-1-20	33
Gilbert, Blanch	Price, John	Pont Henry Homestead	70-0-16	40
Gilbert, James	Harris, Henry	Tee Bach Homestead	13-2-25	15
Gilbert, William	Watkins, David	Land	9-0-5	52
Griffiths, David	Self	Cottage	28-0-26	41
Griffiths, John	Self	Cottage	0-0-28	53
Griffiths, Richard (Another)	Rogers, John	Penlan Homestead	52-0-28	52
Griffiths, Richard	Self	Treren Homestead	6-3-30	40
Griffiths, Thomas	Self	Land	4-1-2	42
Gwillim, John	Gethin, William	Land	28-0-16	53
Gwillim, John	Gethin, William	Cwm Homestead	11-3-33	53
Gwillim, John	Griffiths, Thomas	Pontykerthorian	2-1-34	11
Gwillim, John	Harris, Walter	House	0-1-11	12
Gwillim, John	Rogers, Thomas	Wayne Homestead	102-1-27	12
Gwillim, John	Self	Sunny Bank	25-0-37	11
Gwillim, William	Gwillim, James	Corn Mill	7-2-26	33
Gwillim, William	Self	Cwm Dulas Homestead	140-3-38	33
Harris, Henry	Self	Land	check	40
Harris, William	Self	Great Trewern Homestead	23-0-27	12
Harris, William	Yeomans, Herbert	Little Trewern (Homestead)	60-0-22	10
Hatton, Catherine	Rogers, William	Cwm Homestead	47-1-26	41
Hemming, Richard	Watkins, William	Money Farthing (Homestead)	145-3-20	53
Higgins, Sampson	Self	Land	4-1-31	11
Hoddell, James	Self	Tee Kennel (Homestead)	75-0-8	53
Hopton, Rev John	Hoddell, William	Grydal Homestead	319-0-29	56
Hopton, Rev John	Lewis, John	Land	7-2-26	52
Hopton, Rev John	Munn, Francis	Cottage	0-1-6	56
Hopton, Rev John	Prosser, William	Trelandon Homestead	155-0-25	55
Hopton, Rev John	Self	Land	1-2-2	51
Howard, William	Steele, John	Belpha Homestead	95-3-19	50
Hughes, William	Self	Land	15-0-9	40
James, James	Harris, George	Homestead	44-3-39	40
James, John	Harris, Henry	Land	0-1-0	42
James, John	Parsons, James	Cottage	0-0-12	40
James, John	Watkins, Lewis	Cottage	0-3-7	42
Jeffries, James, Rep of Thomas Jones	Harris, Henry Junior	Old Court Homestead	199-3-6	16
Jeffries, James, Rep of Thomas Jones	Moxley, Mary	Cwm Bullock Homestead	107-1-5	50
Jeffries, James, Rep of Thomas Jones	Williams, Daniel	Land	3-0-36	16
Jennings, Thomas	Williams, William	Lower Hunt House	63-3-1	54
Jones, Elizabeth	Self	Land	4-3-7	14
Jones, Henry	Johnson, John	Cottage	0-0-18	14
Jones, Henry	Prosser, George	Cottage	8-0-5	15
Jones, James	Self	Cottage	0-0-11	57
Jones, John	Self	Land	10-2-39	40
Jones, John (Another)	Johnson, John	Homestead	1-1-21	42
Jones, Mary	Jenkins, John	Cottage	0-0-30	52
Jones, Mary	Self	Homestead	12-2-14	42
Jones, Phillip	Self	Merdy Homestead	122-0-15	33
Lee, Joseph	Farr, James	Land	16-3-27	11
Lewis, James	Howells, Nicholas	Cottage	0-1-19	14
Lewis, James	Howells, Thomas	Cottage	0-1-2	14
Lewis, John	Self	Garn Homestead	41-0-28	52
Lewis, John (Another)	James, John	Cottage	0-2-8	53
Lewis, Mary	Self	Land	3-3-33	41
Lloyd, Benjamin	Williams, William	Cottage	9-0-0	13
Maddy, Samuel	Williams, William	Cottage	2-2-14	51
Merrick, Edward	Self	Groves Homestead	68-1-1	13
Morgan, John	Pembridge, John	Cottage	0-0-25	40
Morgan, Rev George	Lewis, Edward	Land	16-1-31	53
Morgan, Rev Theophilus	Jones, John	Land	29-1-14	54
Morgan, Rev Theophilus	Price, John	Land	36-2-23	52
Morgan, Richard	Jones, Thomas	Cottage	1-2-13	13
Nicholls, Henry	Self	Middle Trewern Homestead	86-1-13	10
Nicholls, Henry Junior	Self	Land	16-1-16	13
Nicholls, John	Self	Land	1-0-26	15
Parry, James	Self	Cottage	0-3-13	14
Parry, Thomas	Self	Land	7-3-16	40
Parry, Thomas	Williams, William	Tee Mawr Homestead	113-0-10	41
Penry, Thomas	Griffiths, Mary	Cottage	0-2-21	14
Penry, Thomas	Pritchard, William	Cottage	0-1-35	11
Penry, Thomas	Self	Land	2-2-34	15
Pitt, Francis	Farr, James	Bakers Stumps Homestead	91-0-24	10
Pitt, Francis	Farr, James	The Keven (land)	10-3-16	11
Pitt, James	George, William	Land	31-1-12	12
Pitt, James	Greenway, William	Upper Trewern Homestead	71-2-19	10
Pitt, James	Self	Land & The Building	14-1-24	11
Powell, Ann	Powell, Philip	Land	9-2-32	10
Powell, John	Self	Homestead	38-0-15	55
Powell, Philip	Williams, William	Land	5-3-39	13
Powell, Sarah	Self	Cottage	5-1-37	42
Powles, John	Self	Land	0-0-5	52
Price, Henry	Self	Land	1-0-6	43
Price, Jane	Self	Cwm Cocked Homestead& cottage	149-3-25	41
Price, John	Stephens, John	Land	0-0-12	33
Price, Philip	Davies, William	2 Cottages	4-3-2	42
Price, William	Hughes, Samuel	Cottage	0-0-39	40
Price, William	Jones, Thomas	Homestead	6-3-7	41
Prices Hospital, Trustee of James Price	Gwillim, John	Land	2-3-28	11
Pritchard, John	Nicholls, John	Cottage	0-0-13	14
Pritchard, John	Smith, Elizabeth	Cottage	0-0-19	14
Pritchard, John	Watkins, Mary	Cottage	0-0-29	42
Pritchard, William	Jones, John	Homestead	9-3-32	57
Pritchard, William (Another)	Self	Middle Hunt House Homestead	31-1-18	57
Probert, Rev Charles	Farr, Edward	Land	83-3-6	41
Probert, Rev Charles	Farr, Edward	Lower House Homestead	69-0-3	41
Prosser, Edwin	Self	Lower Cwm Cocked Homestead	130-1-27	42
Prosser, Paul	Self	Great Bilbo Homestead	88-0-13	51
Prosser, Rev Henry	Price, Edward	Little Bilbo Homestead	43-2-35	51
Roberts, Thomas	Watkins, John	Land	29-2-38	33
Rogers, Jane	Rogers, William	Land	6-3-26	52
Rogers, Jane	Self	Cottage	0-0-39	15
Rogers, John	Parry, James	Rutland (Homestead)	52-3-30	53
Rogers, Mary	Johnson, John	Cottage	0-0-26	14
Rogers, William	Johnson, John	Cottage	0-0-27	14
Sherborne, William, Executor of John Cheese	Vaughan, John	Llindee (Homestead)	16-2-11	10
Simmonds, Rev Herbert Prodger	Sanders, Thomas	The Kellin (Homestead)	36-3-14	11
Simon, Thomas	Self	Cottage	0-2-1	57
Symmonds, William	James, John	Cottage	0-0-37	55
Tatham, Mary Ann	Phillips, Elizabeth	Great Hunt House (Homestead)	113-1-11	54
Thomas, John	Self	Cottage	0-0-23	53
Walters, James	Gwillim, John	Pontannis Mill	1-3-29	13
Watkins, John	Farr, James	Lower Werndee Homestead	146-3-24	51
Watkins, John Rep of Rev Benjamin Lawrence	Farr, John	Cottage	6-1-23	15
Watkins, Marmaduke	Self	Cottage	0-0-26	15
Watkins, William	Self	Cottage	2-1-31	10
Watkins, William	Watkins, John	Upper Werndee Homestead	143-0-0	50
Williams, Richard	Self	Lower Trelander Homestead	28-2-1	13
Williams, Thomas	Addis, Thomas	Cottage	0-2-6	52
Williams, William	Prosser, John	Land	19-0-10	13
Williams, William (Another)	Price, John	Land	13-2-29	40
Williams, William (Another)	Self	Land	45-2-15	42

Borough of Longtown

Abergavenny, Earl of	Penry, Thomas	Cottage (Castle bailey)	13-1-36	21
Abergavenny, Earl of	Poweles, John	Land	14-0-16	24
Bridgwater, Thomas	Pritchard, Ann	Cottage	0-0-21	22
Bulmer, Charles	Hale, John	Land	3-0-22	20
Charity land, Trustee of John Price	Rogers, John	Homestead	17-3-30	20
Cheese, Nicholas	Self	Cottage	0-1-4	22
Cole, Samuel	Self	Cottage	0-0-20	22
Cook, John	Self	Cottage	0-1-4	22
Davies, Thomas	Parry, Thomas	Homestead	9-3-27	21
Duke, John	Pritchard, Edward	Cottage	0-0-35	22
Evans, William	Self	Cottage	0-0-24	24
Gilbert, Blanch	Price, John	Land	7-2-12	25
Gilbert, William	Watkins, David	The Brooks Homestead	160-0-37	24
Griffiths, David	Gwynne, John	Cottage	0-1-35	25
Griffiths, David	Jenkins, Henry	Land	0-0-8	26
Griffiths, David	Parry, Henry	Cottage	3-2-29	26
Griffiths, David	Self	Cottage	1-2-22	25
Griffiths, David	Williams, Elizabeth	Cottage	0-0-27	25
Griffiths, John	Rogers, John	Cottage	2-1-15	23
Griffiths, Richard	Self	Cottage	0-1-21	20
Gwillim, James	Gwillim, Thomas	Cottage	0-1-17	26
Gwillim, James	Parry, Thomas	Cottage	0-1-23	26
Harris, Henry	Self	House	5-2-4	20
Harris, William	Pembridge, Philip	Cottage	0-1-16	22
Hemming, Richard	Watkins, William	Cottage	10-1-21	24
Hoddell, James	Self	Land	55-3-20	24
Hopton, Rev John	Hoddell, William	Cottage	2-1-37	23
Hopton, Rev John	Lewis, John	Homestead [Tanhouse]	71-2-32	23
Hubert, Elizabeth	Self	Cottage	0-0-35	26
Hughes, John	Self	Land	5-2-39	25
James, James	Harris, George	Cottage	2-2-0	25
Jeffreys, James Rep of Thomas Jones	Harris, Henry Junior	Cottage	12-2-37	24
Jeffreys, James Rep of Thomas Jones	Williams, David	Upper Bryn Homestead	117-0-18	24
Jones, Thomas	Davies, John	Lower Bryn Homestead	180-0-21	24
Lewis, James	Jones, William	Cottage	0-0-14	22
Lloyd, John	Jenkins, William	Cottage	0-1-27	26
Merrick, Edward	Self	Cottage	14-0-38	21
Morgan, Richard	Jones, Thomas	Pontannis Homestead	37-0-37	24
Nicholls, Henry	Self	Cottage	5-3-37	21
Nicholls, John	Self	Cottage	2-0-34	22
Norton, John Robert	Self	Land	37-1-36	20
Parry, Thomas	Self	Homestead	1-2-33	25
Penry, Thomas	Self	New Inn Homestead	16-0-18	21
Powles, John	Self	Homestead	0-1-20	23
Price, Jane	Self	Cottage	0-1-0	57
Price, John	Self	Cottage	0-0-22	24
Price, Thomas	Self	Homestead	5-1-31	21
Pritchard, Henry	Williams, William	Cottage	0-1-5	22
Pritchard, John	Self	Cottage	0-0-34	22
Probert, Rev Charles	Self	Glebe house & land	1-2-35	21
Prosser. Eliza	Probert, James	Cottage	13-0-28	20
Rogers, Mary	Watkins, William	Cottage	0-1-11	22
Thoresby, Rev Thomas	Probert, Rev Charles	Cottage	9-0-5	20
Williams, William	Self	Cottage	1-1-4	21
		Churchyard	1-0-14	40
		Black Mountain	231-3-34
		Roads, waters & wastes	125-2-1
		Total	6274-3-9


base map © g gwatkin	Longtown Township 1840

Traditionally Longtown was a ‘township’ in the parish of Clodock. Not a parish in its own right, the township had expanded over the course of time since the founding of a castle and borough town in the early 13^th century to absorb lands belonging to pre-Norman settlement at Clodock. By the late 16^th century, and possibly earlier, Longtown appears in manorial surveys as a place that included land in Clodock. Meanwhile, Clodock church remained dominant in church affairs as the parish church for Longtown’s ‘chapel of ease’ by the castle. A distinction can therefore be made between Longtown as a geographical area and Longtown as a dependent chapelry: the term ‘township’ covers both and can lead to confusion. In the 1840s Tithe Survey the ‘township of Longtown’ refers only to a recognised geographical district.

The borough included burgage plots (strips of land about the width of a house) close to the castle, as well as a hinterland of larger landholdings beyond. The Tithe Map of Longtown provides the earliest known map of the borough, which is particularly significant by showing the peripheral farmland beyond the castle enclave covering a substantial part of the middle area of the township. Details of tithe charges given in the Tithe Survey show that the borough is defined by those landholdings exempt from ‘great’ tithes, where only ‘small’ tithes payable to the vicar were required. These borough landholdings are listed separately in the tithe schedule from the rest of the township.

Beyond the axis between Clodock and the borough, four other areas showing a considerable expansion of the township can be described geographically but the historical background for their inclusion has not as yet been researched. One is the most northerly part of the township straddling land between the Monnow and Escley rivers, which includes Llanwonog, the Trewerns and the Trelandon farms. Another is a northeastern area between the Escley and Dulas rivers, crossing from roughly Old Court to the Bilbo farms. A southeastern section covers much of the hill Mynydd Merddin including Grydal and the Hunthouse farms. Finally, an area west of the Monnow on the slopes of Hatterall Hill includes Cwm Coched and Ty Mawr farms (some of this area would have been part of the ancient estate of Clodock).

The greatest density of population in the 1840s Tithe Survey was at the village of Longtown, mostly within the borough, while Clodock had become a hamlet. However, in two other areas of the township beyond the village, clusters of very small landholdings with cottages which originated as encroachments, some less than one acre and few over five acres, can be seen on the Tithe Map as distinctive settlements once adjacent to common land, one at Lower Maescoed and another on the mountain track on Hatterall Hill above Clodock . Most of the cottages have been demolished in Lower Maescoed, many within living memory, and only one has survived on the mountain track. Elsewhere the pattern of dispersed farms characteristic of Wales was predominant.

Longtown had some 1675 separate fields or enclosed plots spread over about 230 distinct holdings (for comparison, the other townships of Clodock parish – Craswall, Llanveynoe and Newton – each had some 80-90 holdings). Both the larger number of holdings, and the greater density of settlement in some areas, as noted above, impose a need for more maps to cover the township in this website presentation. It is illustrated here in five sections as detailed below.

Section 1

Is that part of Longtown north of the ancient Borourgh of Longtown

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map 10	map 11	map 12	map 13
map 14	map 15	map 16

Section 2

Is the ancient Borough of Longtown

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map 20	map 21	map 22	map 23
map 24	map 25	map 26

Section 3

Is that part of Lower Maescoed (with adjoining areas) that is within Longtown

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For Owners and Occupiers in the northern part of Lower Maescoed see the corresponding work on Newton township

Section 4

Is that part of Longtown that is south of the Borough and west of the River Monnow

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map 40

map 41

map 42

Section 5

Is that part of Longtown that is south of the Borough and east of the River Monnow

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map 50	map 51	map 52	map 53
map 54	map 55	map 56	map 57

Observations:

Not all holdings are associated with a farm or a homestead and not all holdings are named in the schedule.
Where a holding is named this is given above.

Confusion often occurs in personal names with a Welsh connection between the patronymic and forename of an individual. All names in the above table are in the form of ‘surname, forename’

See the schedule for further detail.

A large scale map accompanies the schedule at the Record Office.

The apportionment schedule is dated 1841 and the tithe map 1840

for similar Tithe map details of other Ewyas Lacy parishes click here

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