Goldcliff, Monmouthshire

Description
Goldcliff, a parish in Monmouthshire, on the Bristol Channel, 3 1/2 miles SSW of Llanwern station on the South Wales branch of the G.W.R., and 5 1/4 SE of Newport. Post town, Newport, Monmouth; money order and telegraph office, Maindee. Acreage, 2196, with 8228 of adjacent foreshore; population, 249. Most of the land is part of Caldicott Level, protected from the sea by embankments. A silicious limestone cliff, about 60 feet high, rising over a great bed of yellow mica, breaks the level at the shore, has a glittering appearance under sunshine, and gave rise to the name Goldcliff. A Benedictine priory was founded here in 1113 by Robert de Chandos, and was given at the dissolution to Eton College, but no vestiges are left. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £89. Patron, Eton College. The church is Early English. There is a Congregational chapel.