Place:Dinham, Monmouthshire, Wales

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Dinham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"DINHAM, a hamlet in Llanvair-Discoed parish, Monmouth; 3½ miles WSW of Chepstow. Acres: 670. Real property: £626. Population: 37. Houses: 7. Some remains of an ancient castle, almost hidden by wood, are on a rising-ground."

Wikipedia refers to Dinham as a village in Monmouthshire that, from 1939 to 1993, was "consumed" by the Royal Navy Propellant Factory which was dedicated to the manufacture of explosives and the storage of ammunition. The site has its own standard gauge railway system (no longer linked to the national network), many private roads and a wide range of buildings, from small earth-banked stores to large four storey lightly built brick buildings. It is about two miles (3 km) east-west, and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-south. The perimeter road inside the security fence is, on its own, over seven miles (11 km) long. This is quite visible on Google Earth. The hamlet of Dinham itself is miniscule compared to the factory.

In 1935, in a move to reduce the number of parishes within Chepstow Rural District, Dinham was absorbed into the civil parish of Caerwent.

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