WHITSON: JOHNS NEWPORT DIRECTORY 1939

AREA, 1,086 acres.

RATEABLE VALUE, £337.

POPULATION, 72.

Whitson is a parish to the eastward of Goldcliff, in the lower division of Caldicot hundred, six miles south-east from Newport, and about five from Mager, Llanwern being the nearest railway station. It is in the Monmouth division of the county, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Newport, rural deanery of Netherwent, archdeaconry and diocese of Monmouth. On the south it is bounded by the Bristol channel; and, like Goldcliff, is protected therefrom by a sea wall.

PLACES OF WORSHlP.-The church is an ancient stone building in the early English style, and some years since was restored and fitted with opea pews. The registers of baptisms date from the year 1744; marriages, 1729; and burials.L, 1728. Rev. D. Evans, vicar. Churchwardens, Charles Keyte and Garraway J. Smith.

POSTAL.-Letters, via Newport, are delivered by postman, and collected by him on his return in the evening.
Schools.-There is a non-provided Public School in the parish of Goldcliff for the two parishes (Miss Margaret Keyte, schoolmistress).
The land is nearly all pasture.

DISTRICT COUNCILLOR.-R. K. Morgan, Samson's Court, Goldcliff.

RATING OFFICER.-Tudor Morris, Council Offices, Baneswell.

Ball Thomas, lorry dvr., The Willows Evans Rev. D., Whitson vicarage Gale David, Lower farm Hale Geo., Whitson farm Howells David, Whitson Green farm Jones Charles, farmer Post office Public Telephone here Jones Ed., farmer, Whitehall Maybury W. G., builders' merchant, Whitson Court Morgan R. K., Samson's Court, Golclcliff

Phillips Arthur C., Court farm Phillips O., The Lodge Smith Garraway J., Whitson Court Stevens Herbert, Old Manor house Thomson G., Church farm Walter E., Old Post office, Whitson Waters Miss C., Green court farm Waters Wm., farmer, Green Court farm Webb Mrs., farmer, Lodge farm Williams Henry, Chestnut Tree Williams George, farmer, Greenmoor