Llandenny Explained

Country:Wales
Welsh Name:Llandenni
Static Image:Llandenny Church in winter sunshine - with sunshine roof^ - geograph.org.uk - 1122845.jpg
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Static Image Caption:The Church of St John the Apostle and Evangelist, Llandenny (during the restoration of its roof)
Coordinates:51.7306°N -2.8482°W
Official Name:Llandenny
Community Wales:Raglan
Unitary Wales:Monmouthshire
Lieutenancy Wales:Gwent
Constituency Westminster:Monmouth
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Monmouth
Post Town:USK
Postcode District:NP15
Postcode Area:NP
Dial Code:01291
Os Grid Reference:SO415038

Llandenny (Welsh: Llandenni or, lesser used, Mathenni) is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. Llandenny is located three miles south of Raglan and three miles north of Usk.[1]

History and amenities

The little village of Llandenny is just a few houses, a pub (the Raglan Arms - closed) and the Church of St John, named after St John the Apostle and Evangelist. The main south Wales to the Midlands road link, the A449, passes close to the village.

The Raglan Arms was named for Lord Raglan who owned the nearby Cefn Tilla Court until it was sold in 2015, following the death of Fitzroy Somerset in 2010. A landlord of the pub in the 1930s was Frank Wake who catered nearly always for the farm labourers and not the gentry so it became a 'thorn in the flesh' of the Raglan family.

The nearby Llandenny railway station building (photographed) existed for many years until it was converted into a residential property. It included a ground frame signal box on the platform, a cattle dock and small goods sidings. It stood on the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway line and closed in 1959.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Llanddenni / Llandenny, Monmouthshire. genuki.org.uk. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland . 1868 . 13 March 2012.