Kelly's Directory for Monmouthshire,1901 The proprietors trust that the present Edition of Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire may be found at least equal in accuracy to the previous ones. Every place in Monmouthshire, and every parish will again be found to be included in the book. The Letters M.O.O. and S.B. are abbreviations adopted by H.M. Post Office to represent Money Order Office and Savings Bank. NASH NASH is a parish at the mouth of the Usk river and on the coast of the Bristol Channel, 5 miles southeast from Newport station, on the Great Western Railway, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Caldicot, Newport petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Caerleon, archdeaconry of Monmouth, and diocese of Llandaff. The church of St. Mary is an ancient structure of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and a tower with fine spire, containing 5 bells; the tower was restored in 1898. There are 200 Sittings. The register dates from the year 1733. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value �80, with 1� acres of glebe, in the gift of Eton College, and held since 1897 by the Rev. David Arthur Lewis B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter, who resides at Newport. There is a Baptist chapel at Pye Corner. Lord Tredegar, who is lord of the manor, Eton College, and St. John Knox Rickards Phillips esq. of Whitson, are chief landowners. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, rock. The land is chiefly in grass. The area is 2,721 acres of land, 10 of tidal water and 3,518 of foreshore; rateable value, �4,401; the population in 1891 was 273. Parish Clerk: John Waters. Post Office: William German, sub-postmaster. Letters through Newport arrive at 7.30a.m.; dispatched at 5.30p.m. Postal orders issued, but not paid. Maindee is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 4 miles distant National School (mixed), built in 1877, for 58 children; average attendance, 43; Samuel Tutt, master PRIVATE Morgan Mrs. Greenfield Morgan Mrs. The Elms Tritton Rev. C. W. (Baptist) Wilcox Esther (Miss), Decoy Pool COMMERCIAL Adams Edwin, frmr.Broad St.common Ashfield Wm. Henry, farmer, Picked la Baker George, farmer, Red house Ball Samuel, farmer, Red House farm Bayley Wm. farmer, Decoy Pool farm Collett Walter, farmer, Fair Orchard German William, blacksmith & wheelwright, Pye corner Hale John, farmer, Cold Harbour Hayward John, farmer, Cross farm Hicks William,dairy farmer, Pye cornr Jones Charles, farmer, Typortha Jones Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Tatton Jones Sarah (Mrs.), Waterloo inn Jones Thomas, farmer, Farmfield Jones Thomas, farmer, Tydee farm Jones William, farmer, Chapel farm Jones William Henry, farmer & assistant overseer, Great house Jones Wynham, farmer, Common house Morgan Wm., farmer, Little Common frm Skuse John, shopkeepr, Broad street. Common Stead Caleb Francis, farmer, Moorbarn farm Tamplin Edward Wm. butcher, Box cottage Thomas David, farm bailiff to Mr. James Thomas, Pye Corner farm Waters Hannah(Mrs.), farmer, Church farm Waters Joseph, farmer, Burnt house Watkins John, butcher Webb Evan Thos., farmer, Old house Williams Lewis, mason, Ash cottage Williams Thomas, farmer, Fish house