SKENFRETH, a parish in the upper division of
the hundred of SKENFRETH, county of MONMOUTH, 6
miles (N, N, W,) from Monmouth, containing 488 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Llandaff, rated in the king's
books at £5.16.10., and in the patronage of W. Cecil,
Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Bridget, is a large
handsome structure, the windows of which are enriched
with fine stained glass. The parish is intersected by
the river Mon, over which a bridge was erected in 1825,
at an expense to the county of £1000, the road from
London to Milford Haven being thus shortened by
seven miles. Courts leet and baron are annually held
here. Of the ancient castle, which stood on an eminence
rising' gently from the bank of the Mon, nothing remains
but the outer wall: it was defended by six
towers and a moat supplied from the river.