Mounton is a
hamlet in
Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...
, south east
Wales, United Kingdom, located two miles west of
Chepstow in a rural setting.
The parish was originally part of the holdings of
Chepstow Priory
The Parish and Priory Church of St. Mary is located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. Parts of the building, including its ornate west doorway, date from the late 11th century and are contemporary with the nearby Norman castle. The c ...
, with the name Monktown. It has a tiny
parish church dedicated to Saint
Andoenus, which was almost wholly rebuilt in 1880 and which lies in the Parish of
Mathern
Mathern ( cy, Matharn; older form: ''Merthyr Tewdrig'') is a historic community (parish) and village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, about south west of the town of Chepstow, close to the Severn estuary, the Bristol Channel and the M48 mot ...
and Mounton with
St Pierre
Saint-Pierre (French, 'Saint Peter') may refer to:
Buildings and churches
* Church of Saint-Pierre, Caen, Normandy, France
* Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France, designed by Le Corbusier
* Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church, Strasbourg, France
...
. One of the gravestones, to a Christopher Cooper, is dated 8 April 1680.
Until the late 19th century the village had three water mills, producing paper, carpets and cloth.
[Sir ]Joseph Bradney
Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, (11 January 1859 – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and archaeologist, best known for his multivolume ''A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present T ...
, ''A History of Monmouthshire: The Hundred of Caldicot'', 1933 These were called Lady Mill, Lark Mill and Linnet Mill. The last owner, John Birt, closed the mills down in 1876 after being accused of polluting Mounton Brook.
[Ivor Waters, ''Mounton Valley Paper Mills'', Chepstow Society, 1978] According to
Fred Hando one of the mills produced the paper used for
Bank of England
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notes, but a monograph by the local historian Ivor Waters states that they "rarely made anything but brown and blue packing paper", using old rags, rope and straw as raw materials.
[
]Mounton House
Mounton House, Mounton, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the last major country house built in the county, constructed between 1910 and 1912 by the architect and writer Henry Avray Tipping for himself. Formerly a school, which has now relocated to the gr ...
, now a special school
Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...
for boys, was built as a country house in the Arts and Crafts
A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...
style in 1914 by Henry Avray Tipping
Henry Avray Tipping (22 August 1855 – 16 November 1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of '' Country Life'' magazine for 17 years.
Early life
Tipping was born in the ...
, a leading garden designer and writer, assisted by the local architect Eric Francis
Eric Francis Coppolino (born 1964) is an American investigative reporter who specializes in corporate fraud and toxic torts litigation, and also the former astrologer for the '' New York Daily News'' and '' Marie Claire'' magazine.
In 2005, ...
.
Robin Williams, coach to Great Britain's 2012 Olympic women's pairs rowing champions Helen Glover
Helen Glover (born 17 June 1986) is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. Ranked the number 1 female rower in the world in 2015–16, she is a two-time Olympic champion, triple World champion, quintuple ...
and Heather Stanning, is from Mounton. He learnt to row at Monmouth School and went on to win world silver and bronze medals and coached Cambridge to seven Boat Race wins. His GB pair won world gold in a new world record at the world championships in Amsterdam in August 2014.
References
External links
Kelly's 1901 Directory of Monmouthshire on Mounton
Mounton House School
"Church of St Andoenus, Mounton, Monmouthshire" at stainedglass.llgc.org.uk
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Villages in Monmouthshire
