Llantrisant () is a village in Monmouthshire, south east

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, United Kingdom. The community population at the 2011 census was 475.

Location

Llantrisant is located about south east of

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and about north of

Newbridge-on-Usk Newbridge-on-Usk (Welsh: ''Pontnewydd ar Wysg'') is a hamlet in the village and parish of Tredunnock, near Usk, Monmouthshire, south east Wales, in the United Kingdom. Location Newbridge-on-Usk is located on the River Usk to the north of N ...

, in the community of Llantrisant Fawr. The village is sited on the eastern bank of the River Usk and the Usk Valley Walk long distance footpath passes through the village after descending from the Wentwood escarpment.

History and amenities

The name of the village translates as the Parish of the Three Saints, and the parish church is the Church of St Peter, St Paul and St John. The church is fourteenth century in origin but nothing remains of this period beyond a single lancet window in the nave. The remainder is of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries", and of the restoration by E. A. Landsdowne in 1880–81. When local historian

Fred Hando Frederick James Hando MBE (23 March 1888 – 17 February 1970) was a Welsh writer, artist and schoolteacher from Newport. He chronicled the history, character and folklore of Monmouthshire, which he also called Gwent, in a series of nearly ...

visited in the late 1950s, the ruin of the ancient St. Bartholomew's chapel was still standing. From the later 19th century, the mill at Llwynau was run by a Henry Moore who moved there from Brecknockshire, together with his seven sons. When the mill stopped working, one of Moore's sons was reputed to have buried the mill-wheel under the floor. The farmhouse at Llwynau dates from the 17th century. Hando, F.J., (1958) "Out and About in Monmouthshire", R. H. Johns, Newport. A

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stone

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castle is sited close by. The local public house is the Greyhound Inn.

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References

* Villages in Monmouthshire {{Monmouthshire-geo-stub