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List Of Places In Monmouthshire
''Map of places in Monmouthshire compiled from this list'': See the list of places in Wales for places in other principal areas. This is a list of places in Monmouthshire, Wales, sorted alphabetically. {{compact ToC, side=yes, top=yes, num=yes __NOTOC__ A Abergavenny, Abersychan B Bedwellty, Betws Newydd, Black Rock, Blackwood, Blaenawey, Blaenavon, Blaina, Bryngwyn, Buckholt, Botany Bay C Catbrook, Caer Llan, Caerwent, Caldicot, Chapel Hill, Chepstow, Clydach, Coed Morgan, Coed-y-paen, Crick, Croes y pant, Croes Hywel, Cross Ash, Crossway, Cwmcarvan, Cwmyoy D Devauden, Dingestow, Dixton E Earlswood G Gaerllwyd, Gilwern, Glascoed, Goytre, Govilon, Great Oak, Grosmont, Gwehelog, Gwernesney H Highmoor Hill, Hoaldalbert I Itton K Kemeys Commander, Kilgwrrwg Common, Kingcoed L Little Mill, Llamrei, Llanarth, Llanbadoc, Llancayo, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Llandewi Skirrid, Llandegveth, Llandenny, Llandevenny, Llandogo, Llanellen, Llanelly, Llan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places In Wales
This is a list of lists of places in Wales. National lists * List of built-up areas in Wales by population * List of cities in Wales * List of towns in Wales *Welsh placenames Political *List of communities in Wales * List of electoral wards in Wales Lists of places within principal areas *List of places in Anglesey *List of places in Anglesey (categorised) *List of places in Blaenau Gwent * List of places in Bridgend county borough *List of places in Caerphilly county borough *List of places in Cardiff - for villages and districts see :Populated places in Cardiff. *List of places in Carmarthenshire *List of places in Carmarthenshire (categorised) * List of places in Ceredigion *List of places in Conwy county borough *List of places in Conwy County Borough (categorised) *List of places in Denbighshire *List of places in Denbighshire (categorised) *List of places in Flintshire *List of places in Flintshire (categorised) *List of places in Gwynedd *List of places in Gwyne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldicot, Monmouthshire
Caldicot ( cy, Cil-y-coed) is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. The town is located between Chepstow and the city of Newport. The site adjoins the Caldicot Levels, on the north side of the Severn Estuary. The population of the built-up area was around 11,000. It has a large school, Caldicot School, and is known for its medieval castle. The built-up area includes Portskewett. Caldicot had a population of 9,604 in 2011. History There was considerable activity in the area during the Bronze Age. Excavations near the Nedern Brook beside the castle revealed a plank from a boat and complex wooden structures in the former river bed. The boat probably traded across the Severn with the farmers and traders of Somerset. Later, in Roman times, it is likely that trading vessels sailed up the Nedern Brook to Caerwent. The discovery of kilns also shows that coarse pottery was produced in the village during Roman times. In 1074, following the Norman Conquest, the manor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devauden
Devauden ( cy, Y Dyfawden) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. It is located between Chepstow and Monmouth near the top of the Trellech ridge on the B4293 road. The community covers an area of . The community includes the villages of Itton and Wolvesnewton, Llanfihangel-tor-y-mynydd and Newchurch. History There is evidence that an ancient ridgeway between Monmouth and the coast at Mathern passed through Devauden. Roman coins from the period of Antoninus Pius were found in the village in 1840. Devauden was said in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' to have been the place where the Britons were overwhelmed and defeated by the combined forces of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs, Æthelbald of Mercia and Cuthred of Wessex, in 743. The name may be derived from the Welsh ''Ty'r ffawydden'', or "house of the beech tree". Until the mid-20th century the village was often known as ''The'' Devauden. Devauden and the nearby hamlet of Fedw or Veddw (from Welsh ''Y fedw'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cwmyoy
Cwmyoy is an extensive rural parish in Monmouthshire, Wales ( cy, Cwm Iou for the valley and parish, cy, Cwm-iou for the village). The standard Welsh name is ''Cwm Iau'' or ''Cwm-iau''. In the Gwentian dialect of Welsh that was spoken here until the late 1800s, the name was pronounced as ''Cwm Iou'' ('ou', also spelt informally 'oi', for standard 'au' is a common feature of south Wales Welsh). The 'English' name is in fact this local dialect form in a more English spelling. The name of the valley probably originates from the Welsh word ''iau'' meaning yoke, in reference to the shape of the hill surrounding it. The village of Cwmyoy is north of Abergavenny and south of Llanthony in the Vale of Ewyas in the Black Mountains. It is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, in an upland location just below the broad ridge of Hatterrall Hill, which carries the Wales–England border and Offa's Dyke Path. The parish The parish is nearly long and broad, and includes Llanthony as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cwmcarvan
Cwmcarvan ( cy, Cwmcarfan) is a small rural village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is located 4 miles south west of Monmouth and about 4 miles east of Raglan, off the old A40 road two miles NW of Trellech. History and amenities Church of St. Catwg The church dates from the 13th or 14th century. It is in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, with some 16th-century features. It was heavily restored in the 1870s.John Newman, ''The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire'', 2000, The dedication is to St Catwg or Cadoc Saint Cadoc or Cadog ( lat-med, Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Cattwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learni ..., a Welsh saint of the 6th century. There are porches on both the south and north sides, supposedly so that the squires of Cwmbychan and Trevildu within the parish did not have to enter through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossway, Monmouthshire
Crossway (the form used by the Ordnance Survey) or Crossways (the form preferred by most residents) is a hamlet near the village of Newcastle in north Monmouthshire, Wales. It lies on the B4347 road, just to the northeast of Hilston Park, about southwest of Skenfrith and about north west of Monmouth. Welsh manuscripts mention Ty Gwyn at Crossways as a "slight building; a sort of hunting place, built with white rods". Ty Gwyn farm is now known for its Ty Gwyn cider, made since 1969 and marketed since 2007, and supplied to Waitrose and the Royal Opera House. Hilston Park Hilston Park is a country house and estate between the villages of Newcastle and Skenfrith in Monmouthshire, Wales, close to the border with Herefordshire, England. The house and park are in the Monnow valley, beside the B4347 road, by road nor ... lies just to the southwest of the hamlet. References External links Villages in Monmouthshire {{Monmouthshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Ash
Cross Ash is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It is located on the B4521 road between Abergavenny and Skenfrith, some six miles north east of Abergavenny. Setting Cross Ash is situated in a rural part of north-east Monmouthshire. The village is located on the southern foothills of Graig Syfyrddin, where several country lanes converge on the B4521 road. It is virtually equidistant between the "three castles of Gwent", White Castle, Skenfrith Castle and Grosmont Castle Grosmont Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales. The fortification was established by the Normans in the wake of the invasion of England in 1066, to protect the route from Wales to Hereford. Possibly commis .... History and amenities Cross Ash has a primary school which serves an expansive rural area. Next door to the school is a village hall which serves as the venue for the annual Cross Ash Show and Fun Day. There was formerly a post office and petrol stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croes Hywel
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Croes Y Pant
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Crick, Monmouthshire
Crick ( cy, Crug) is a small village or hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ... in the Wales, Welsh county of Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. It is located on the A48 road 1 mile north of the town of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Caldicot and 1 mile east of Caerwent. History and amenities There is a Bronze Age round barrow just west of the village, measuring 31.7m in diameter and the only known bell barrow in Wales. It was excavated in 1940, and found to contain two cremations dating from around 1750-1450 BC. It also contained boulders showing Cup and ring mark, cup marks, which it has been suggested show astronomically significant alignments. The site of Crick was an important junction on the Roman road sometimes known as the ''Via Julia'' which ran from Bath, Somer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coed-y-paen
Coed-y-paen is a village in South Wales, situated at the south-eastern end of Llandegfedd Reservoir, north-west of Llangybi. HM Prison Prescoed, a Category D prison, is located nearby. The village has one public house, the Carpenters Arms. Christchurch The village church, Christchurch, was designed in 1848 by architect Sir Matthew Digby-Wyatt. The church was built as a chapel of ease to the parish church of Llangybi. It was conveyed to the Church in Wales in 1861. A fine Victorian church of the Early English style, it comprises a nave and chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ov ... and a western tower of three floors. It has a single bell. References External links Village website Villages in Monmouthshire {{Wales-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coed Morgan
Coed Morgan is a village and rural area in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, in the United Kingdom. Location Coed Morgan is situated four miles east of Abergavenny close to the villages of Llanddewi Rhydderch and Llanarth. History and amenities Coed Morgan is set in rolling Monmouthshire countryside with a range of agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ... uses. External linkswww.geograph.co.uk : photos of Coed Morgan and surrounding area {{authority control Villages in Monmouthshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
