Llanbadoc

Llanbadoc (Welsh: Llanbadog Fawr) is a village and community in the county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent in Wales. The population of the village at the 2011 census was 806.[1]

The village is in the Newport postal district of NP15, just across the River Usk from the town of Usk (Welsh: Brynbuga), off the A472. Llanbadoc is within the British House of Commons and Senedd constituencies of Monmouth.

There are not many facilities in this small village - there is a village and parish church,[2] a garage, a saw mill, an open prison and an agricultural college.

Llanbadoc is the birthplace (1823) of Alfred Russel Wallace.

The community includes the villages of Monkswood and Glascoed.

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  2. ^ Geograph.org.uk

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