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Michaelstone-y-Fedw (Welsh: Llanfihangel-y-Fedw) is a small rural village and community (parish) to the west of the city of Newport on the border of Cardiff city and Caerphilly county borough. The name is often seen on road signs as 'Michaelstone-y-Vedw'. The 'e' is generally added if 'V' is used in the last part of the name.

The parish is bounded by the Rhymney River to the west, the A48(M) motorway to the south and the Pound Hill road to the north and east. It contains Michaelstone itself as well as a small cluster of houses known as Michaelstone Bridge about a mile to the north.

The name means Michael's (Mihangel > Fihangel) church (Llan) in the (y) birches (bedw > fedw).


Michaelston-Le-Vedw - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
MICHAELSTON-LE-VEDW, a parish, in the poor-law union of Newport, partly in the hundred of Caerphilly, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, and partly in the Upper division of the hundred of Wentloog, county of Monmouth, England, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Newport; containing 541 inhabitants, of whom 337 are in the Welsh portion, consisting of the hamlet of Llanvedw. This parish, situated in the most eastern part of Glamorgan, is surrounded by the parishes of Machen, Bassaleg, Marshfield, St. Mellon's, Llanedarn, and Ruddry; and is intersected by the river Rumney, which here separates England from Wales. It contains 3556 acres, whereof 1014 are arable, 1124 meadow or pasture, 400 woodland, and the remainder gardenground. The general surface is mountainous, with a large portion of wood and water, and some fine meadows on the banks of the river: from the upper grounds is a view of the Bristol Channel. The soil consists chiefly of clay and gravel, and their combinations in different degrees, producing the usual kinds of corn; and the high lands present the common descriptions of timber, such as oak, &c. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 12. 3½.; net income, £400, with an excellent house, and twenty acres of good grass land attached; patron, C. K. Kemeys Tynte, Esq. The church is a plain structure in the early English style, containing about 200 sittings, two-thirds of which are free. There is a good endowed school. For a more minute account of the Welsh portion of the parish, see the article Llanvedw.



 

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