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Aberystwith [sic] (St. Peter), a parish, in the union, division, and hundred of Abergavenny, county of Monmouth, 9 miles (S. W. by W.) from Abergavenny; containing 11,272 inhabitants. This parish, which is sometimes called “Blaenau,” comprises about 11,000 acres by computation, and abounds with valuable mines of iron, which are worked on a very extensive scale: it is intersected by numerous tram-roads, communicating with the Brecon and Monmouth Canals, leading to Newport, where the produce of the various works is shipped. A quarry of stone used for roofing and paving, is also partially worked. There are villages in the parish, connected with the iron-works of Ebbw-vale, Nanty-Glo, Coalbrook-vale, Blaina, and Cwmelyn The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with nearly the whole of the rectorial tithes, and in the gift of the Earl of Abergavenny: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £5 10., and those of the incumbent for £300. The church is a plain structure, erected in 1827. There are places for worship for Baptists, Wesleyans, Calvinists, and Ranters; and a national schoolroom, which is licensed as a chapel.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.