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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Lavernock contained the following places:
"LAVERNOCK, (or Larnock), a parish in the hundred of Dinas Powis, county Glamorgan, 5 miles S. of Cardiff. It is situated at the mouth of the Severn, and opposite Flatholm, in the Bristol Channel. It contains the hamlet of Cosmaston, and the headland called Lavernock Point. The subsoil is lias rock, in which traces of lead have been found. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Penarth, in the diocese of Llandaff.
"COSMASTON, a village in the parish of Lavernock, in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales, 5 miles S. of Cardiff."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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