GARWAY is a large parish and scattered village, situated on the borders of Monmouthshire, and on the main road between Ross and Abergavenny, distant 8 miles N.W. of Monmouth, 11 W. of Ross, 14 S. of Hereford, and about 5 S.E. of Pontrilas station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford railway. It is in Wormelow hundred, Monmouth union and county court district, St. Weonard's polling district, and Harewood End petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 585; in 1871, 578; inhabited houses, 125; families or separate occupiers, 131; area of parish, 3,625 acres; annual rateable value, £3,385. The Right Hon. Richard Moore O'Ferrall, who is lord of the manor, and the Hon. Miss Southwell, are the principal landowners. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, chiefly rock; produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c. Garway is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage; value, £82; patron, Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bart., M.P., of Glan-Usk park, Breconshire. The whole of the tithes, great and small, together with the glebe (62 acres) and glebe house, belong to the lay rector. There is no suitable residence for the vicar, and the living is at present vacant. The church, which is in need of restoration, is an old Norman edifice, with nave, chancel, porch, and square tower containing five bells. The parish registers begin with the year 1664. A school board has been recently formed in this parish, and new schools are to be erected to accommodate about 90 children. The average attendance at the present school is about 40. There is a chapel for the Baptists at a place called "The Turnings". Garway Common is distant half a mile E., and comprises an area of 300 acres. Broad Oak is a hamlet distant nearly 2 miles S.E. of the church.