Monknash, Glamorgan

Description
Monknash, a parish in Glamorgan, near the Nash light on Bristol Channel, 5 miles SW of Cowbridge. Post town, Cowbridge; money order office, Wick; telegraph office, Llantwit Major. Acreage, 1425 of land and 154 of foreshore ; population, 90. The manor was given by Richard de Grenville to Neath Abbey. There are ruins of a monastic barn and other buildings. Coombe House is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £72. The church is ancient, and was partially restored in 1891.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5