lint← Previous revisionRevision as of 23:18, 10 November 2026 Line 24: Line 24: ==Toponymy== ==Toponymy== Osborne and Hobbs (1992) documented four previous names for what is currently known as ''Abercarn'': ''Abergwyddon'' (C.19) (the town at the confluence of the Ebbw and the Gwyddon), ''Villa Treficarn Pont'' (c.942), ''Habercarne'' (1535), ''Abercarne'' (1690, 1928).{{sfn|Osborne|Hobbs|1992|p=8}} They observed that, in contrast to its earliest known name, 'the first settlement in the area appears to have been farther down the valley, near the confluence of the Ebbw with the Carn brook (now Cwmcarn).'{{sfn|Osborne|Hobbs|1992|p=8}} Also: {{blockquote|'The name Abercarn, appropriate to this site, appears subsequently to have been transferred to the early ironworks and then to the industrial village once with colleries, chemical and tinplatee works which grew up approximately one mile to the north. There are early monastic associations as indicated by local place-names e.g. Chapel Farm and Pont Mynachlog and Abercarn "within the Lordship of Maghen" was a manor of Llantarnum Abbey. After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1535 much of the land in this manor comprised the Lordship of Abercarn(e).' ({{harvnb|Osborne|Hobbs|1992|p=8}}.)}} Osborne and Hobbs (1992) documented four previous names for what is currently known as ''Abercarn'': ''Abergwyddon'' (C.19) (the town at the confluence of the Ebbw and the Gwyddon), ''Villa Treficarn Pont'' (c.942), ''Habercarne'' (1535), ''Abercarne'' (1690, 1928).{{sfn|Osborne|Hobbs|1992|p=8}} They observed that, in contrast to its earliest known name, 'the first settlement in the area appears to have been farther down the valley, near the confluence of the Ebbw with the Carn brook (now Cwmcarn).'{{sfn|Osborne|Hobbs|1992|p=8}} Also: {{blockquote|'The name Abercarn, appropriate to this site, appears subsequently to have been transferred to the early ironworks and then to the industrial village once with colleries, chemical and tinplatee works which grew up approximately one mile to the north. There are early monastic associations as indicated by local place-names e.g. Chapel Farm and Pont Mynachlog and Abercarn "within the Lordship of Maghen" was a manor of Llantarnum Abbey. After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1535 much of the land in this manor comprised the Lordship of Abercarn(e).'({{harvnb|Osborne|Hobbs|1992|p=8}}.)}} ==History== ==History== ===16th century=== ===16th century=== The [[Valor Ecclesiasticus]], which was undertaken in 1535, identified Habercarne has having £23 2s 3d, an income associated with the estate of [[Llantarnam Abbey]]. According to the 1535/36 ministers accounts, Abercarne had six mills and a hundred and nineteen tenements. Out of the six mills, four were [[Gristmill|corn mills]], one was a [[Fulling |fulling mill]] and the other one was unspecified. One of the corn mills was located in the Gwyddon and another at Maestir (Plain Land). Jenkin ap Morgan who recorded the accounts was the bailiff for [[Mynyddislwyn]]. Henry VIII retained the estate:{{blockquote|'until 1539, when he leased it to John Parker, one of the squires of his stables, for an annual rent of 21/-. The accounts of his bailiff show that from the lands within the Lordship of Abercarn he derived a rental of £18/11/10/½.' {{sfn|Clark|1962|p=147}} By the 1570s, there were also a small charcoal furnace in the ''Gwyddon Valley'' above Abercarn, which was associated with the [[Earl of Pembroke]]. The [[Valor Ecclesiasticus]], which was undertaken in 1535, identified Habercarne has having £23 2s 3d, an income associated with the estate of [[Llantarnam Abbey]]. According to the 1535/36 ministers accounts, Abercarne had six mills and a hundred and nineteen tenements. Out of the six mills, four were [[Gristmill|corn mills]], one was a [[Fulling |fulling mill]] and the other one was unspecified. One of the corn mills was located in the Gwyddon and another at Maestir (Plain Land). Jenkin ap Morgan who recorded the accounts was the bailiff for [[Mynyddislwyn]]. Henry VIII retained the estate:{{blockquote|'until 1539, when he leased it to John Parker, one of the squires of his stables, for an annual rent of 21/-. The accounts of his bailiff show that from the lands within the Lordship of Abercarn he derived a rental of £18/11/10/½.'{{sfn|Clark|1962|p=147}}}} By the 1570s, there were also a small charcoal furnace in the ''Gwyddon Valley'' above Abercarn, which was associated with the [[Earl of Pembroke]]. ===18th and 19th centuries=== ===18th and 19th centuries===