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Abergavenny (/ ˌ æ b ər ɡ ə ˈ v ɛ n i /; Welsh: Y Fenni, pronounced [ə ˈvɛnɪ], archaically Abergafenni, ' mouth of the River Gavenny ') is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. Abergavenny is promoted as a "Gateway to Wales"; it is approximately 6 miles (10 km) from the border with England and is located where the A40 ...
English: Map of the community of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire as of March 2024, using October 2023 data. This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: 2024 Wales Monmouthshire Community map.svg (by DankJae ).
Hand-drawn map of Monmouthshire by Christopher Saxton from 1577. The first Tudor king, Henry VII, was born at Pembroke Castle in the west of Wales, and spent some of his childhood in Monmouthshire, at Raglan Castle as a ward of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. [48] His son and heir Henry VIII was to bring the rule of the Marcher lords to ...
1946 OS map showing Monmouthshire/Glamorgan and border running along the Rhymney River. In 1899 Abergavenny was incorporated as a borough. Two further urban districts were formed: Mynyddislwyn in 1903, and Bedwas and Machen in 1912.
The Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny is a parish church in the centre of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.. St. Mary's has been called "the Westminster Abbey of Wales" because of its large size, and the numerous high-status tomb monuments and medieval effigies surviving within it.
Monmouthshire is a county and principal area of Wales. It borders Torfaen and Newport to the west; Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the east; and Powys to the north. The largest town is Abergavenny, with the other major towns being Chepstow, Monmouth, and Usk. [1]
Geology of Monmouthshire; map. There is an inlier of rocks of Silurian age in the heart of the county, west of Usk and straddling the River Usk and known accordingly as the Usk Inlier. These rocks consist of a thick sequence (over 600m / 2000 ft) assigned to the Přídolí, Ludlow and Wenlock series. The oldest parts of the succession, the ...
Sign in Aberystwyth with its twin towns Map of Wales. This is a list of places in Wales which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).