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Ifton

(A description written in 1891)

A Parish, on the shore of the Bristol Channel, 6.1/2 miles south-west from Chepstow and 1/2 north-east from Severn Tunnel station on the Great Western (South Wales) railway; in the Southern division of the county, Hundred of Caldicot, Petty Sessional division, Union and County Court district of Chepstow; middle division of the rural deanery of Netherwent, Monmouth archdeaconry and Llandaff diocese.

The church was taken down some years ago. The living is a rectory annexed to Roggiett, under the name of Roggiett-cum-Ifton with Llanvihangel, joint yearly tithe value £189, gross income £385 with 129 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord Tredegar, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Alfred George Morris B.A. of Jesus College, Oxford, who has a residence here [at the Rectory].

Post: Letters through Chepstow, arrive at 10.15 a.m. Nearest money order & telegraph office, Caldicot. The nearest Letter box is at Roggiett, cleared at 5.10 p.m.

Schools:

The children of this parish attend the school at Roggiett.

Lieut-Col. Willoughby Sandilands Rooke J.P. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The chief crops are corn; the pasture land is very good; there are considerable woods. There are is 660 acres of land and 495 of water; rateable value, £1.666.

The population in 1881 was 32.

(extracts from Kelly's 1891 Directory of Monmouthshire, transcribed by J. Doe)

 

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