BASSALEG: JOHNS NEWPORT DIRECTORY 1939

POSTAL ADDRESS-BASSALLEG, NEWPORT, MON.

EARLY CLOSING DAY-WEDNESDAY. POPULATION 1,000 (approx.)

Bassalleg is a village and extensive parish on the river Ebbw, in the hundred of Wentloog, distant three miles from Newport, and formerly included the hamlets of Duffryn and Graig, and Rogerstone. (The latter has now absorbed the civil parish of Bassalleg). It is in the petty sessional division, union and county-court district of Newport, rural deanery of Bassalleg, and Archdeaconry of Newport. It has two railway stations, viz., the Western Valleys (G.W.R.) and the Brecon and Merthyr section of the G.W.R., stationmaster, John Barker. Tredegar House, the seat of the Right Hon. Viscount Tredegar, D.L., J.P., the lord of the manor, stands on the south side of the Cardiff road.

BASSALLEG CONSTABULARY.- P.C. Reg. Williams, officer-in-charge. PLACES OF WORSHIP.-The Church, dedicated to S. Basil, is a. fine stone building, with nave, south aisle, chancel, Porch, and an embattled western tower, containing six bells. Rev. A. G. A. Picton, M.A.~ M.C., vicar, Revd. E. T. Davies, High Cross Lane, and Revd. D. M. Davies, The Parsonage, Rogerstone, curates; churchwardens, Alfred R. Jones, W. H. Palmer and W. Pritchard, Rogerstone.

Organist and choirmaster, George W. Bell. The building, which was restored in 1904, now affords 470 sittings. Sunday Services at 11 and 6.30. Holy Communion 1st Sunday in the month, choral celebration 11 a.m.; every Sunday and Saints' days at 8.30 a.m., and on the first after morning prayer. The Tredegar Memorial Chapel, erected in 1920, is on the site formerly occupied by the mausoleum of the Tredegar family.

There is also another Church, St. John's, at Rogerstone. Mission room at Rhiwderin, Service on Fridays at 7.30 p.m. Baptist (Bethel); Methodist (Garth hill), and Independent {Ebenezer, 1832) Chapels.

The area of the ecclesiastical parish is 6,855 acres of land, 90 of water, and 42 of foreshore.

POSTAL.-The Post Office is also a Money Order, Telegraph and Telephone office, with Savings Bank. Letters arrive from Newport at 7 a.m and 4 p.m., and are despatched at 7 a.m., 2 p.m., 5.45 and 8 p.m. week days, and 6.30 p.m. Sundays.-Mrs. Amy Edwards, sub-postmistress. Also a pillar box at Garth Hill, from which letters are forwarded at 4.10 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. Pillar box at Pye Corner, 5.30 and 8 p.m.

RATING AND VALUATION OFFICER--Tudor Morris, Council Chambers, Baneswell, Newport.

RATEABLE VALUE.-Bassaleg (including Graig, Duffryn and Rhiwderin), £7,680. SCHOOLS - National School in the village (mixed)- John A. Crutchley, master. Bassalleg Secondary School, Harrhy Rhys, M.A., master. Duffryn and Graig are adjoining hamlets in the parish of Bassalleg, situate some three or four miles from Newport. Letters are delivered per rural messenger from Newport. Duffryn-area. 1,950 acres; population, 177. Graig-area 2.624 acres; population, 1,113.

DUFFRYN PARISH MEETING.-G. W. King (chairman).
GRAIG PARISH COUNCIL.- J. Cooper (chairman). Clerk, J. Morgan
RD. COUNCILLORS.-Graig, Capt. J. H. Griffiths. Duffryn, G. W. King. Rhiwderin is the next station to Bassalleg on the Brecon and Merthyr section of the G.W. Railway, about a mile distant; stationmaster, Mr. J. Barker. The Congregationalists have a chapel, the Tabernacle. Services on Sundays at 1I and 6. Letters received at the Post office (from Newport) at 7 a.m, Despatches at 3.45 p.m. and 8.25 p.m. Money Order and Savings Bank business transacted. F. H. Davies, postmaster. The nearest Telegraph office is at Bassalleg. Call Office. Schoolmaster-H. Davies.

MISSION Room under Bassalleg Parish Church.