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The premises were sold at auction in 1845 by Newport Corporation to Catharine Edmonds of Newport, widow. The premises passed to her daughters, Susannah Barber Edmonds and Catharine Agrappina Thomas Edmonds, who married respectively Abraham Clements of Newport, chemist and druggist, and John Wilson Bebell of Newport. Susannah died 15 May 1868 without issue, and on 17 Sept. 1868 Abraham Clements sold his interest in the property to John Wilson Bebell for an annuity of £20. Bebell also rented the Old Salt Warehouse in Market Street from the Tredegar estate. Bebell died intestate on 15 Sept. 1887. On 7 June 1888 letters of administration were granted at the Llandaf district probate registry to Edith Amy Bebell, one of his four daughters and heirs. The four were Catherine Sarah Davies (b. 1844), wife of Rev. Edward Davies of Whitson, Monmouthshire, Edith Amy Bebell (b. 1848), Elizabeth Wilson Bebell (b. 1851) and Helen Clarke Bebell (b. 1855), all of Albert House, 12 Clifton Place, Newport, spinsters. Catharine Agrappina Thomas Babell, J.W. Babell's widow, died 5 March 1895, and the daughters sold the premises to the Tredegar estate on 24 Jan. 1896.

The Tredegar Town estate was created out of the Monmouthshire estate. The estate comprised the Tredegar properties within the bounds of lands let to the Tredegar Iron & Coal Company Ltd in 1881 (AT 1/2), but expressly excluded from the lease. The boundaries of the estate appear to have been established by the Argoed lease of 1805 and the Tredegar lease of 1815 (both AT 1/1). The estate was merged with the Monmouthshire town estate in 1919 when the latter was separated from the Monmouthshire estate.

The earliest surviving rental of 'Ground Rents of Holdings at Tredegar Iron Works' begins in 1891. The fact that arrears are noted suggests that there was an earlier volume or volumes, although the label on the spine proclaims 'Ground Rent Ledger No. 1'. Holdings are arranged by the 'No. of Lease', with numbers up to 102 in 1891, to 901 in 1906 and to 1330 in 1918.

The 'Tredegar Town Rents Account' volumes continue until 1918, the 'Tredegar Town' rents being incorporated in the Monmouthshire town estate in 1919 (AMA 6). What may be described as Tredegar Town agricultural rents go the the Monmouthshire agricultural estate (AMA 5). The Tredegar Garden Rents appear in the Monmouthshire town estate summary accounts only, as a total sum transferred from a separate series of rentals or collection books.

Sir Charles Morgan established the tradition of large Christmas parties at Tredegar in the winter of 1809-10, and they were continued until his death in 1846. The early parties consisted of 60-80 persons, including many of the gentry of the surrounding counties. In later years the parties staying at the house rarely exceeded 30, exclusive of his grandchildren. The family party usually assembled in the first week of November and stayed until the first week of February, with 'stranger' guests visiting the house for varying periods. In the middle of December the annual cattle show, established in 1819, attracted many guests to the house. Christmas festivities lasted from Christmas Eve until Twelfth Day, during which time the band of the Glamorgan militia was resident in the house and played for dinner and dancing every evening.

The Rhiwderyn estate works were established 1899-1900. "With regard to the work that Messrs. Morgan have tendered for at the Gaer, such as greenhouses and a lot of other wood work, it occurred to me that probably you might feel inclined to have this done from the new works at Rhiwderin, as they have every facility there for doing it, and it would save expense" (Tredegar letter dated 11 Aug. 1900). The works carried on into the final days of the estate, the ledgers continuing into 1953.

Langford Court was a compact estate in Devon, containing about 465 acres and lying three miles from Cullompton, seven miles from Tiverton, nine from Honiton, and ten from Exeter. The estate was the property of the president and scholars of Corpus Christi College (CCC), Oxford, who let it on a succession of twenty year leases, renewable every seven years for a fine of a year and a quarter's rent. CCC retained the manor of Langford Court, and sent college 'gentlemen' to hold the manorial courts; the tenant was liable to for their bed and board at Langford Court, although this appears to have been commuted to paying for their residence at an appropriate inn.

Charles Gould, esq., took a lease of the estate in 1767, which he renewed in 1774, 1781, 1788 and 1795. In 1774, the fine for the renewal was about £400. The estate appears to have comrised a single Barton [=demense farm]. Rather than working the estate himself, or letting the estate to an undertenant, Gould let the various parcels of the Barton of Langford Court individually to surrounding farmers.

In 1768, Charles Gould appointed John Farrant of Clyst Hydon, gent., as his steward, and on his death appointed his son, also John Farrant of Clyst Hydon, in succession. Charles Gould took the name and arms of Morgan in 1789. In Jan. 1795, Sir Charles Morgan dismissed John Farrant for neglecting his duties, and appointed Thomas Pannell of Cullompton in his place. The lease of the Langford Court estate was sold to Samuel Lott of Honiton in 1802, although Gould had been inclined to sell the estate in 1772, and again from 1792 onwards, having valued the estate at various times between £5350 and £6500.