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 13th century to absorb lands belonging to pre-Norman settlement at Clodock. By the late 16th 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 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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map 30

map 31

map 32

map 33

 

 

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

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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 55

map 56

map 57

 

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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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