LANCAUT, a chapelry in the parish of TIDENHAM, hundred of WESTBURY, though locally in that of Blidesloe, county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (N.) from Chepstow. The population is returned with the parish. The chapel, which is dedicated to St. James, is under the rector of Wollastone, in the archdeaconry of Hereford, and diocese of Gloucester.