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HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE: The Hundred of Caldicot, Part II vol IV: J.A. Bradney, 1932

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Bradney's History of Monmouthshire, Part II Volume IV: The Hundred of Caldicot

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Shirenewton is so called from Durand, the sheriff (vice-comes), who figures in Domesday Book as holding of the king a tenement in Caerwent called Caldicot. It would be more correctly Sheriff's Newton. It is called in Welsh Tre newydd gelli fach (Newton in the little grove).

Shirenewton Court or Hall
This for many years has been the chief seat and estate in the parish, though no manor was attached to it. The house if of note as having been the birthplace of William Blethin, bishop of Llandaff, and there the family is said to have lived for some generations previously. Of Gruffydd, the father of the bishop, nothing is recorded. Morgan Blethin, a kinsman of the bishop, was abbot of Llantarnam in 1532, whose nephew Lewis Blethin, was steward of the estates of the abbey, and afterwards held the same position under the Morgans, grantees of the abbey.

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