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Cornering at Monmouth Show Dog agility and obedience trials. In 1876 the show was held in the town's newly established cattle market in Chippenham Fields. [1] The show was then held annually (firstly in October, but then eventually moved to August – taking up its now traditional date of the last Thursday in August) up until the First World War.
The pedestrianised town centre of Caldicot on market day. Caldicot is the location of Caldicot Castle and lake. The area has popular waymarked footpaths along the Caldicot Levels and the coastal path can be walked. Nearby are Caerwent and Wentwood. To the north-west, Dewstow House dates from c.1804. Extensive gardens and grottoes built after ...
The mediaeval market place in Monmouth developed from the bailey of the castle, and originally covered a much larger area than the present square. [1] The square was the venue of the town's market, both before and after the Shire Hall was built in 1724. It was known as the Market Place in 1804, according to the local publisher Charles Heath. [2]
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A cattle market was held in Abergavenny from 1863 to December 2013. [4] [44] From 1825 to 1863 a sheep market was held at a site in Castle Street, to stop the sale of sheep on the streets of the town. When the market closed, the site was leased and operated by Abergavenny Market Auctioneers Ltd, who held regular livestock auctions on the site.
Monmouth Festival is an annual nine-day free music festival which takes place in the market town of Monmouth, south east Wales, United Kingdom. [1] It is organised by a non-profit-making small team of volunteers from the local community, and was started in 1982.
Monmouthshire's most important Roman remains are found at the town of Venta Silurum ("Market of the Silures"), present-day Caerwent in the south of the county. The town was established in AD 75, [14] laid out in the traditional rectangular Roman pattern of twenty insulae with a basilica and a temple flanking a forum. [15]
Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer), also formerly known as the County of Monmouth (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ, ˈ m ʌ n-/ MON-məth, MUN-; Welsh: Sir Fynwy), was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales in the south-east of Wales, on the border with England.