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The Shire Hall is owned by Monmouthshire County Council. It is currently used as a tourist information centre and as the offices for Monmouth Town Council, and parts are open to the public. Following the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the council announced that the Shire Hall would be the new location for the Monmouth Museum.
In 1840, the Chartist leader John Frost and two colleagues were tried at the Shire Hall in Monmouth and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, the last such sentences to be passed in Britain. [ note 2 ] [ 30 ] A statue in front of the Shire Hall commemorates Charles Stewart Rolls , the aviator and entrepreneur who was the first Briton to ...
The "county or shire of Monmouth" was formed from parts of the Welsh Marches by the Laws in Wales Act 1535.According to the Act the shire consisted of all Honours, Lordships, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, lying or being within the Compass or Precinct of the following Lordships, Townships, Parishes, Commotes and Cantrefs... in the Country of Wales:
Monmouth has been established as a tourist centre for some 200 years. It is in close proximity to the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley. Tourist attractions within the town include the castle, the museum, the Nelson Garden and the Shire Hall where the Tourist Information Centre and visitor centre is located. The area is also attractive to walkers.
Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer; Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the south, and Torfaen, Newport and Blaenau Gwent to the west.
A memorial statue to the aviation pioneer Charles Rolls stands in front of the Shire Hall in Agincourt Square, Monmouth, Wales. The 8 feet (2.4 m) high bronze statue was designed by Sir William Goscombe John, R.A. [2] and Sir Aston Webb, R.A. designed the pink granite plinth. [2] The statue is a Grade II* listed structure. [1]
The King's Head Hotel is opposite the Shire Hall in Agincourt Square. It dates from the mid-17th century, and as one of the major inns in Monmouth was reputedly visited by Charles I of England in 1645. It has a fine black-and-white painted stone façade and became an important posting inn in the late 17th century. 7 Shire Hall: I: 1724
The King's Head Hotel is a hotel standing opposite the Shire Hall in Glyndŵr Street, Agincourt Square, Monmouth, Wales.It dates from the mid-17th century, and as one of the major inns in Monmouth was reputedly visited by Charles I of England in 1645.