Mitchel Troy
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 View looking north-west over Troy House, Mitchel Troy | |
  Mitchel Troy Location withinMonmouthshire | |
| Population | 1,253 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SO493103 |
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| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | USK |
| Postcode district | NP15 |
| Post town | MONMOUTH |
| Postcode district | NP25 |
| Dialling code | 01600 |
| Police | Gwent |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
51°47′21″N2°44′11″W / 51.78905°N 2.73646°W /51.78905; -2.73646  Map of the community | |
Mitchel Troy (Welsh:Llanfihangel Troddi, that is "church ofSt Michael on theRiver Trothy") is a village andcommunity inMonmouthshire, south east Wales, in theUnited Kingdom. It is located 3 miles south west of thecounty town ofMonmouth, just off theA40 road leading towardsRaglan. Settlements within the community includeTregare,Dingestow,Cwmcarvan andWonastow.
The English name of the parish derives from the name of the river, the WelshTroddi becomingTrothy and then Troy. The addition "Mitchel" is thought not to derive from the church's dedication to St Michael, but rather as a variant of the word "much" or "mickle", as also found atMitcheldean inGloucestershire, and used to differentiate the village from the nearby manor of Troy Parva.[2]
John de Troye,Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1371), was born here early in the fourteenth century. Nathaniel Armstrong Wells, author, eldest son of the first blackHigh Sheriff of MonmouthshireNathaniel Wells, was christened here on 24 March 1806.[3]
The church ofSt Michael and All Angels dates back to the 13th century though the church was thoroughly restored in the 1870s in theDecorated style. The cleric and writerAdam of Usk was the rector in 1382–85;[2][4] and the final resident incumbent of Mitchel Troy withCwmcarvan, Arthur Walter Sneyd (1900-1980), who retired in 1971, is of note because he succeeded in taking both hisBachelor of Arts andMaster of Arts degrees atJesus College, Oxford within two years of retiring.[5] Following Sneyd's departure, the parish became served fromOvermonnow and more recently it has been incorporated into theMonmouth group of parishes.[6]
Troy House, about 1½ miles north east of the church, was largely rebuilt after about 1680, on the site of an earlier building, for theDuke of Beaufort, after the family seat atRaglan Castle had fallen into ruin.[2][4] The house remained in the Somerset family until it was sold in 1901, after which it became aconvent school and later, from 1935, anapproved school. In 2008, proposals have been made for its conversion into residential apartments.[7]
Mitchel Troy is also the name of theelectoral division, coterminous with the community. The division elects a county councillor toMonmouthshire County Council.[8]
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