MONKSWOOD, a liberty (extra-parochial), in thelower
division of the hundred of USK, county of MONMOUTH,
2 miles (N. W. by W.) from Usk, containing
156 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaff, endowed with
£ 1000 royal bounty. The Duke of Beaufort was patron
in 1788.