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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Monmouthpedia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Monmouthpedia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Monmouthpedia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Governance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Governance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Governance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Governance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Demography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Demography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 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</a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gallery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Gallery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefynwy" title="Trefynwy – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Trefynwy" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82" title="Монмут – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Монмут" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82_(%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82%D1%88%D1%8B%D1%80)" title="Монмут (Монмутшыр) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Монмут (Монмутшыр)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BC%D1%8A%D1%82" title="Монмът – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Монмът" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menoe_(k%C3%AAr)" title="Menoe (kêr) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Menoe (kêr)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(Gal%C2%B7les)" title="Monmouth (Gal·les) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Monmouth (Gal·les)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(lungsod_sa_Hiniusang_Gingharian,_Wales,_Monmouthshire,_lat_51,81,_long_-2,71)" title="Monmouth (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Wales, Monmouthshire, lat 51,81, long -2,71) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Monmouth (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Wales, Monmouthshire, lat 51,81, long -2,71)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefynwy" title="Trefynwy – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Trefynwy" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(Wales)" title="Monmouth (Wales) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Monmouth (Wales)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B8" title="Μόνμαθ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μόνμαθ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(Kimrio)" title="Monmouth (Kimrio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Monmouth (Kimrio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA" title="مونماوت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مونماوت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(Royaume-Uni)" title="Monmouth (Royaume-Uni) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Monmouth (Royaume-Uni)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefynwy" title="Trefynwy – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Trefynwy" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefynwy" title="Trefynwy – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Trefynwy" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%AC%EB%A8%B8%EC%8A%A4" title="몬머스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="몬머스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9" title="Մոնմութ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մոնմութ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A5" title="मॉनमाउथ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मॉनमाउथ" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Monmouth" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(Regno_Unito)" title="Monmouth (Regno Unito) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Monmouth (Regno Unito)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA%27" title="מונמות' – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מונמות'" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefynwy" title="Trefynwy – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Trefynwy" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monemuta" title="Monemuta – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Monemuta" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_(Wales)" title="Monmouth (Wales) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Monmouth (Wales)" 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.mergedbottomrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-label{border-top:0;border-bottom:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}</style><table class="infobox ib-uk-place vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org nowrap">Monmouth<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist ib-uk-place-other-names"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: <i lang="cy">Trefynwy</i></li></ul></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_-_Monnow_Bridge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Monmouth_-_Monnow_Bridge.jpg/250px-Monmouth_-_Monnow_Bridge.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Monmouth_-_Monnow_Bridge.jpg/500px-Monmouth_-_Monnow_Bridge.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="3637" data-file-height="2433" /></a></span><div><a href="/wiki/Monnow_Bridge" title="Monnow Bridge">Monnow Bridge</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_town_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Monmouth_town_flag.svg/150px-Monmouth_town_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Monmouth_town_flag.svg/225px-Monmouth_town_flag.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouthshire_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Monmouth is in the southeast of Wales, on the Wales – England border"><img alt="Monmouth is in the southeast of Wales, on the Wales – England border" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Monmouthshire_UK_location_map.svg/250px-Monmouthshire_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Monmouthshire_UK_location_map.svg/500px-Monmouthshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="1266" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:38%;left:80%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Monmouth"><img alt="Monmouth is in the southeast of Wales, on the Wales – England border" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Monmouth</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire" title="Monmouthshire">Monmouthshire</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">10,508 (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=51.808933~-2.719377&lvl=13&sp=Point.51.808933_-2.719377_Monmouth&sty=s&style=s">SO505125</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Wales" title="Local government in Wales">Principal area</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire" title="Monmouthshire">Monmouthshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Preserved_counties_of_Wales" title="Preserved counties of Wales">Preserved county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gwent_(county)" title="Gwent (county)">Gwent</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">MONMOUTH</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NP_postcode_area" title="NP postcode area">NP25</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01600</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gwent_Police" title="Gwent Police">Gwent</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="South Wales Fire and Rescue Service">South Wales</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Ambulance_Service" title="Welsh Ambulance Service">Welsh</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Monmouthshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Senedd_constituencies_and_electoral_regions" title="Senedd constituencies and electoral regions">Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_(Senedd_constituency)" title="Monmouth (Senedd constituency)">Monmouth</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouth.gov.uk/">www.monmouth.gov.uk</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint 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li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="List of places in Wales">Wales</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Monmouthshire" title="List of places in Monmouthshire">Monmouthshire</a></dd></dl></div> <p><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Monmouth&params=51.81_N_2.72_W_region:GB_type:city(10508)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°49′N</span> <span class="longitude">2°43′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.81°N 2.72°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.81; -2.72</span></span></span></a></span></span> </p> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg/240px-2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg/360px-2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg/480px-2024_Wales_Monmouthshire_Community_Monmouth_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="682" /></a></span><br />Map of the community</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Monmouth</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/θ/: 'th' in 'thigh'">θ</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">MON</span>-məth</i></a> or <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ʌ/: 'u' in 'cut'">ʌ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>-/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">MUN</span>-</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: <i lang="cy">Trefynwy</i>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'Town on the Monnow') is a market town and <a href="/wiki/Community_(Wales)" title="Community (Wales)">community</a> in <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire" title="Monmouthshire">Monmouthshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, situated on where the <a href="/wiki/River_Monnow" title="River Monnow">River Monnow</a> joins the <a href="/wiki/River_Wye" title="River Wye">River Wye</a>, two miles (three kilometres) from the <a href="/wiki/Wales%E2%80%93England_border" class="mw-redirect" title="Wales–England border">Wales–England border</a>. The population in the 2011 census was 10,508, rising from 8,877 in 2001. Monmouth was the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_(historic)" title="Monmouthshire (historic)">historic Monmouthshire</a>, although <a href="/wiki/Abergavenny" title="Abergavenny">Abergavenny</a> is the largest settlement and <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_County_Council" title="Monmouthshire County Council">Monmouthshire County Council</a> has its main offices at Rhadyr, just outside <a href="/wiki/Usk" title="Usk">Usk</a>. Monmouth is in the <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)">UK Parliament constituency of Monmouthshire</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_(Senedd_constituency)" title="Monmouth (Senedd constituency)">Senedd constituency of Monmouth</a>. </p><p>The town was the site of a small <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman</a> fort, <a href="/wiki/Blestium" title="Blestium">Blestium</a>, and became established after the <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> built <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Castle" title="Monmouth Castle">Monmouth Castle</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1067</span>. The <a href="/wiki/Mediaeval" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediaeval">medieval</a> <a href="/wiki/Monnow_Bridge" title="Monnow Bridge">stone gated bridge</a> is the only one of its type remaining in Britain. The castle later came into the possession of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lancaster" title="House of Lancaster">House of Lancaster</a>, and was the birthplace of King <a href="/wiki/Henry_V_of_England" title="Henry V of England">Henry V</a> in 1386. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name Monmouth is an <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> contraction of 'Monnow-mouth'. The Welsh name for the river, <i>Mynwy</i>, which may originally have meant "fast-flowing", was <a href="/wiki/Anglicisation" title="Anglicisation">anglicised</a> as <a href="/wiki/River_Monnow" title="River Monnow">Monnow</a>. The town was originally known in Welsh as <i>Abermynwy</i> ("mouth of the Monnow"), replaced by <i>Trefynwy</i> ("Monnow town" – the initial <i>m</i> of <i>Mynwy</i> <a href="/wiki/Lenition" title="Lenition">mutating</a> in Welsh to <i>f</i>, pronounced /v/) by the 1600s.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Excavations undertaken by the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Archaeological_Society" title="Monmouth Archaeological Society">Monmouth Archaeological Society</a> on sites along Monnow Street have uncovered details of the early history of the town. The <a href="/wiki/Council_for_British_Archaeology" title="Council for British Archaeology">Council for British Archaeology</a> has designated Monmouth as one of the top ten towns in Britain for archaeology.<sup id="cite_ref-kissack_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kissack-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistoric">Prehistoric</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prehistoric"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Evidence of a <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> <a href="/wiki/Boat_building" title="Boat building">boat building</a> community, including three 100-foot-long (30-metre) channels adjoining the site of a now-vanished lake, was discovered in September 2013, during archaeological investigations by the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Archaeological_Society" title="Monmouth Archaeological Society">Monmouth Archaeological Society</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parc_Glyndwr" class="mw-redirect" title="Parc Glyndwr">Parc Glyndwr</a> housing development site, immediately north-west of the town.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The excavations later revealed the remains of a <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> dwelling.<sup id="cite_ref-SWEP_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWEP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dwelling was constructed on stilts on a human-made island away from the lake shore in water up to 10 ft (3 m) deep.<sup id="cite_ref-SWEP_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWEP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WDP_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oak timbers had been "skillfully" cut with stone or flint axes to form stilts, of posts and poles, which "probably" rested on three parallel fully-grown tree 'sleeper beams', up to 3 feet 3 inches (1 m) wide, laid horizontally on the lakebed.<sup id="cite_ref-SWEP_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWEP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WDP_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Timbers from the structure were <a href="/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating" title="Radiocarbon dating">radiocarbon dated</a> to 4867 <a href="/wiki/Before_Present" title="Before Present">years before present (BP)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_times">Roman times</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Roman times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first recorded settlement at Monmouth was the small <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman</a> fort of <i><a href="/wiki/Blestium" title="Blestium">Blestium</a></i>, one of a network of military bases established on the frontiers of the Roman occupation. This was connected <a href="/wiki/Roman_road" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman road">by road</a> to the larger Roman towns at <i><a href="/wiki/Glevum" title="Glevum">Glevum</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Gloucester" title="Gloucester">Gloucester</a>) and <i><a href="/wiki/Isca_Augusta" title="Isca Augusta">Isca Augusta</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Caerleon" title="Caerleon">Caerleon</a>). Archaeologists have found <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_pottery" title="Ancient Roman pottery">Roman pottery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_currency" title="Roman currency">coins</a> within the modern town centre. During the later Roman period, between the 2nd and late 4th centuries, it appears to have been a centre for <a href="/wiki/Iron_working" class="mw-redirect" title="Iron working">iron working</a>, using the local <a href="/wiki/Iron_ore" title="Iron ore">iron ores</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charcoal" title="Charcoal">charcoal</a> also worked at nearby <i><a href="/wiki/Gobannium" title="Gobannium">Gobannium</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Abergavenny" title="Abergavenny">Abergavenny</a>) and <i><a href="/wiki/Ariconium" title="Ariconium">Ariconium</a></i> (near <a href="/wiki/Ross-on-Wye" title="Ross-on-Wye">Ross-on-Wye</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-ggatlandscape_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ggatlandscape-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newman_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Middle_Ages">The Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg/250px-Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg/375px-Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg/500px-Monmouth_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1373622.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Castle" title="Monmouth Castle">Monmouth Castle</a>, part of which remains in use as a regimental headquarters and museum</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27,dating_from_the_16th_century.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27%2Cdating_from_the_16th_century.jpg/140px-The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27%2Cdating_from_the_16th_century.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27%2Cdating_from_the_16th_century.jpg/210px-The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27%2Cdating_from_the_16th_century.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27%2Cdating_from_the_16th_century.jpg/280px-The_only_known_example_of_an_original_%27Monmouth_Cap%27%2Cdating_from_the_16th_century.jpg 2x" data-file-width="380" data-file-height="381" /></a><figcaption>The only known example of an original <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_cap" title="Monmouth cap">Monmouth cap</a>, dating from the 16th century, on display at <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Museum" title="Monmouth Museum">Monmouth Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/End_of_Roman_rule_in_Britain" title="End of Roman rule in Britain">end of Roman rule in Britain</a>, the area was at the southern edge of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a> kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Ergyng" title="Ergyng">Ergyng</a>. The only evidence of continuing settlement at Monmouth is a record of a 7th-century church, at an unknown location within the town, dedicated to the Welsh <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">saint</a> <a href="/wiki/Cadoc" title="Cadoc">Cadoc</a>. In 1056, the area was devastated by the Welsh prince <a href="/wiki/Gruffydd_ap_Llywelyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Gruffydd ap Llywelyn">Gruffydd ap Llywelyn</a>, on his way with an army of Welsh, <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Saxons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danes" title="Danes">Danes</a> to defeat <a href="/wiki/Ralph_the_Timid" title="Ralph the Timid">Ralph</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Hereford" title="Earl of Hereford">Earl of Hereford</a>, and sack the Saxon <i><a href="/wiki/Burh" title="Burh">burh</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a>, 18 miles (29 km) to the north.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest of England</a> in 1066, the Earldom of Hereford was given to <a href="/wiki/William_FitzOsbern" class="mw-redirect" title="William FitzOsbern">William FitzOsbern</a> of <a href="/wiki/Breteuil,_Eure" title="Breteuil, Eure">Breteuil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a>, one of <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">King William</a>'s closest allies, who was responsible for defending the area against the Welsh. <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Castle" title="Monmouth Castle">A new castle</a> was built at Monmouth, holding commanding views over the surrounding area from a sound defensive site and exerting control over both river crossings and the area's important resources of farmland, timber and minerals.<sup id="cite_ref-ggatlandscape_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ggatlandscape-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initially it would have been a <a href="/wiki/Motte_and_bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Motte and bailey">motte and bailey</a> <a href="/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castle</a>, later rebuilt in stone, and refortified and developed over time. A town grew up around it, and a <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> <a href="/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">priory</a> was established around 1075 by <a href="/wiki/Withenoc" title="Withenoc">Withenoc</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Breton_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Breton people">Breton</a> who became lord of Monmouth after <a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Breteuil,_2nd_Earl_of_Hereford" title="Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford">Roger</a>, the son of William fitzOsbern, was disgraced.<sup id="cite_ref-ggatlandscape_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ggatlandscape-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The priory may have once been the residence of the <a href="/wiki/Monk" title="Monk">monk</a> <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Geoffrey of Monmouth">Geoffrey of Monmouth</a>, who was born around 1100 and is best known for writing the chronicle <i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae" title="Historia Regum Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a></i> ("History of the Kings of Britain"). </p><p>The town was recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> as part of <a href="/wiki/Herefordshire" title="Herefordshire">Herefordshire</a>, and expanded thereafter. There was early <a href="/wiki/Burgage" title="Burgage">burgage</a> development along Monnow Street, and the <a href="/wiki/Suburb" title="Suburb">suburb</a> of <a href="/wiki/Overmonnow" title="Overmonnow">Overmonnow</a>, west of the river and protected by a defensive moat called the <a href="/wiki/Clawdd-du" title="Clawdd-du">Clawdd-du</a> or Black ditch, began to develop by the 12th century.<sup id="cite_ref-ggatlandscape_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ggatlandscape-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Charters from the period refer to the town's trade in <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a>, and to <a href="/wiki/Forge" title="Forge">forges</a> making use of local <a href="/wiki/Iron_ore" title="Iron ore">ore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charcoal" title="Charcoal">charcoal</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ember" title="Ember">cinders</a> produced by the forges formed heaps, and were used in building foundations; the name of Cinderhill Street in Overmonnow dates from this period.<sup id="cite_ref-kissackmedieval_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kissackmedieval-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the period of turmoil between the supporters of King <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III</a> and the barons who sought to curtail his power, the town was the scene of a major <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monmouth_(1233)" title="Battle of Monmouth (1233)">battle in 1233</a>, in which the king's forces were routed by the troops of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Marshal">Richard Marshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Pembroke" title="Earl of Pembroke">Earl of Pembroke</a>. Later, the castle was extended by Henry's son <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Crouchback" title="Edmund Crouchback">Edmund Crouchback</a>, after he became <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Lancaster" title="Earl of Lancaster">Earl of Lancaster</a> in 1267.<sup id="cite_ref-ggatlandscape_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ggatlandscape-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In about 1300, town walls were built, and the <a href="/wiki/Monnow_Bridge" title="Monnow Bridge">Monnow Bridge</a> was <a href="/wiki/Fortification" title="Fortification">fortified</a>. The bridge, now <a href="/wiki/Pedestrianisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedestrianisation">pedestrianised</a>, remains in place, the only such fortified bridge in Britain and reputedly one of only three similar crossings in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-newman_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tchistory_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tchistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>King <a href="/wiki/Edward_II_of_England" title="Edward II of England">Edward II</a> was briefly imprisoned at Monmouth Castle in 1326 after being overthrown by his wife <a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Isabella</a> and her lover <a href="/wiki/Roger_Mortimer_of_Wigmore" title="Roger Mortimer of Wigmore">Roger Mortimer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Saaler_1997,_p._134_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Saaler_1997,_p._134-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the mid 14th century, the castle and town came into the possession of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lancaster" title="House of Lancaster">House of Lancaster</a> through the marriage of <a href="/wiki/John_of_Gaunt" title="John of Gaunt">John of Gaunt</a> to <a href="/wiki/Blanche_of_Lancaster" title="Blanche of Lancaster">Blanche of Lancaster</a>. John of Gaunt strengthened the castle, adding the great hall, and the castle became a favourite residence of the House of Lancaster. In 1387, John of Gaunt's grandson was born to <a href="/wiki/Mary_de_Bohun" title="Mary de Bohun">Mary de Bohun</a>, in the Queen's Chamber within the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, while his father <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bolingbroke" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Bolingbroke">Henry Bolingbroke</a> was <a href="/wiki/Hunting" title="Hunting">hunting</a> in the area. The boy was known as Henry of Monmouth before his coronation as <a href="/wiki/Henry_V_of_England" title="Henry V of England">Henry V</a>; supported by <a href="/wiki/Longbowmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Longbowmen">longbowmen</a> from the area,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he won the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt" title="Battle of Agincourt">Battle of Agincourt</a> in 1415. Monmouth's links with Henry are commemorated in the naming of the main town square, <a href="/wiki/Agincourt_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="Agincourt Square">Agincourt Square</a>, and in the statue of Henry on the front of the <a href="/wiki/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth" title="Shire Hall, Monmouth">Shire Hall</a>. </p><p>From the 14th century onwards, the town became noted for the production of <a href="/wiki/Wool" title="Wool">woollen</a> <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_cap" title="Monmouth cap">Monmouth caps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tchistory_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tchistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, as a border town, its prosperity suffered after nearby areas, including <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pwll_Melyn" title="Battle of Pwll Melyn">Usk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grosmont,_Monmouthshire" title="Grosmont, Monmouthshire">Grosmont</a>, were devastated through <a href="/wiki/Glynd%C5%B5r_Rising" class="mw-redirect" title="Glyndŵr Rising">attacks</a> by supporters of <a href="/wiki/Owain_Glynd%C5%B5r" title="Owain Glyndŵr">Owain Glyndŵr</a> around 1405, though Monmouth itself did not come under attack.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-medieval_times">Post-medieval times</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Post-medieval times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right noresize" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><img alt="1610 Map of Monmouth by John Speed, roll over the image to link to the places shown" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Old_map_of_Monmouth%2C_Wales.jpg/400px-Old_map_of_Monmouth%2C_Wales.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Old_map_of_Monmouth%2C_Wales.jpg/600px-Old_map_of_Monmouth%2C_Wales.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Old_map_of_Monmouth%2C_Wales.jpg/800px-Old_map_of_Monmouth%2C_Wales.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2269" data-file-height="1774" usemap="#ImageMap_08041236c4cb4ae7" resource="/wiki/File:Old_map_of_Monmouth,_Wales.jpg" /></span><map name="ImageMap_08041236c4cb4ae7"><area href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Thomas_the_Martyr,_Monmouth" shape="rect" coords="89,152,106,173" alt="Church of St Thomas the Martyr" title="Church of St Thomas the Martyr" /><area href="/wiki/Church_Street,_Monmouth" shape="poly" coords="289,156,294,161,314,173,314,187,284,171" alt="Butcher's Rowe (now Church Street)" title="Butcher's Rowe (now Church Street)" /><area href="/wiki/Monmouth_Castle" shape="circle" coords="282,129,18" alt="Monmouth Castle" title="Monmouth Castle" /><area href="/wiki/Agincourt_Square,_Monmouth" shape="poly" coords="254,150,289,157,284,170,254,165,249,153" alt="The Bailey (now Agincourt Square)" title="The Bailey (now Agincourt Square)" /><area href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Priory_Church,_Monmouth" shape="rect" coords="314,145,339,172" alt="St Mary's Priory Church" title="St Mary's Priory Church" /><area href="/wiki/Wye_Bridge,_Monmouth" shape="rect" coords="373,225,394,243" alt="Wye Bridge" title="Wye Bridge" /><area href="/wiki/River_Wye" shape="poly" coords="260,262,275,245,290,246,325,248,351,238,389,231,389,238,360,243,340,251,321,256,307,256,281,253,274,254,268,262" alt="River Wye" title="River Wye" /><area href="/wiki/River_Monnow" shape="poly" coords="64,262,100,233,114,129,126,121,241,124,275,107,296,114,336,109,351,113,389,137,389,140,344,114,330,113,309,117,274,111,260,115,238,128,188,129,129,125,119,132,105,232,94,244,71,263" alt="River Monnow" title="River Monnow" /><area href="/wiki/Monnow_Bridge" shape="rect" coords="106,145,122,155" alt="Monnow Bridge" title="Monnow Bridge" /></map><figcaption>1610 Map of Monmouth by <a href="/wiki/John_Speed" title="John Speed">John Speed</a>, roll over the image to link to the places shown. </figcaption></figure> <p>In 1536, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a> imposed the <a href="/wiki/Laws_in_Wales_Acts_1535%E2%80%931542" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542">Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542</a>, abolishing the powers of the <a href="/wiki/Marcher_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcher Lords">Marcher Lords</a> and integrating the administration of <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a>. A new <a href="/wiki/Shire" title="Shire">shire</a> was created covering the area west of <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Herefordshire" title="Herefordshire">Herefordshire</a>, and Monmouth became its county town. The town gained representation in the <a href="/wiki/English_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="English Parliament">English Parliament</a> at the same time, and its priory was <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">dissolved</a>. In 1605, <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="James I of England">James I</a> granted Monmouth a <a href="/wiki/Town_charter" class="mw-redirect" title="Town charter">town charter</a> by <a href="/wiki/Letters_patent" title="Letters patent">letters patent</a>. The granting of the charter included the charge that the town "at all perpetual future times ... be and remain a town and borough of Peace and Quiet, to the example and terror of the wicked and reward of the good".<sup id="cite_ref-tchistory_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tchistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The layout of the town as depicted in Speed's map of 1610 would be easily recognisable to present day inhabitants, with the layout of the main axis clearly visible from the castle via the main street, <a href="/wiki/Monnow_Street" title="Monnow Street">Monnow Street</a>, to the bridge. Monnow Street is a typical market street, in being wide in the middle (for those selling) and narrow at each end, to help prevent livestock escaping.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_School" title="Monmouth School">Monmouth School</a> was founded by <a href="/wiki/William_Jones_(haberdasher)" title="William Jones (haberdasher)">William Jones</a> in 1614. The castle changed hands three times during the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> passed through on his way to retaking <a href="/wiki/Chepstow_Castle" title="Chepstow Castle">Chepstow Castle</a> and laying siege to <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_Castle" title="Pembroke Castle">Pembroke Castle</a> in 1648.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth castle was <a href="/wiki/Slighting" title="Slighting">slighted</a> after the wars ended, but the town itself grew in prosperity. <a href="/wiki/Great_Castle_House" title="Great Castle House">Great Castle House</a>, built in 1673, is now the home of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Monmouthshire_Royal_Engineers_(Militia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)">Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)</a>, the oldest regiment in the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth" title="Shire Hall, Monmouth">Shire Hall</a> was built in 1724, and was used for the local <a href="/wiki/Assizes" title="Assizes">Assizes</a>, with the area beneath the building serving as the town market.<sup id="cite_ref-tchistory_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tchistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the end of the 18th century, the town had become a popular centre for visitors undertaking the "<a href="/wiki/Wye_Tour" title="Wye Tour">Wye Tour</a>", an excursion by boat through the scenic <a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley" title="Wye Valley">Wye Valley</a> taking in the <a href="/wiki/Picturesque" title="Picturesque">picturesque</a> sights of Ross-on-Wye, <a href="/wiki/Goodrich_Castle" title="Goodrich Castle">Goodrich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tintern_Abbey" title="Tintern Abbey">Tintern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chepstow_Castle" title="Chepstow Castle">Chepstow</a> and elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poets <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Coleridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel Coleridge">Samuel Coleridge</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Southey" title="Robert Southey">Robert Southey</a>, as well as painter <a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">J. M. W. Turner</a>, were among those who visited the area.<sup id="cite_ref-tchistory_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tchistory-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_19th_and_20th_centuries">The 19th and 20th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The 19th and 20th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1264714646">.mw-parser-output .RMbox{box-shadow:0 2px 2px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.14),0 1px 5px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.12),0 3px 1px -2px rgba(0,0,0,.2)}.mw-parser-output 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title="exhKRZWae"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg/20px-BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg/40px-BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER+r"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Beaufort_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Beaufort Bridge">Duke of Beaufort Bridge</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exKDSTa"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/BSicon_exKDSTa.svg/20px-BSicon_exKDSTa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/BSicon_exKDSTa.svg/40px-BSicon_exKDSTa.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exkSTR3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BSicon_exkSTR3.svg/20px-BSicon_exkSTR3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BSicon_exkSTR3.svg/40px-BSicon_exkSTR3.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1264714646" /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Troy_Goods_Yard" title="Monmouth Troy Goods Yard">Monmouth Troy</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Troy_Goods_Yard" title="Monmouth Troy Goods Yard">Goods Yard</a></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exABZl+l"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/BSicon_exABZl%2Bl.svg/20px-BSicon_exABZl%2Bl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/BSicon_exABZl%2Bl.svg/40px-BSicon_exABZl%2Bl.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exkABZr+12"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/BSicon_exkABZr%2B12.svg/20px-BSicon_exkABZr%2B12.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/BSicon_exkABZr%2B12.svg/30px-BSicon_exkABZr%2B12.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/BSicon_exkABZr%2B12.svg/40px-BSicon_exkABZr%2B12.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exkSTRc4; exkSTRc3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/BSicon_exkSTRc3.svg/20px-BSicon_exkSTRc3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/BSicon_exkSTRc3.svg/40px-BSicon_exkSTRc3.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exkSTRc4; exkSTRc3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/BSicon_exkSTRc4.svg/20px-BSicon_exkSTRc4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/BSicon_exkSTRc4.svg/40px-BSicon_exkSTRc4.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/River_Wye" title="River Wye">River Wye</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exBHF"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/BSicon_exBHF.svg/20px-BSicon_exBHF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/BSicon_exBHF.svg/40px-BSicon_exBHF.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exkSTR+4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/BSicon_exkSTR%2B4.svg/20px-BSicon_exkSTR%2B4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/BSicon_exkSTR%2B4.svg/40px-BSicon_exkSTR%2B4.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Troy_railway_station" title="Monmouth Troy railway station">Monmouth Troy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exSTR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/30px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/40px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER+l"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/BSicon_WASSER%2Bl.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER%2Bl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/BSicon_WASSER%2Bl.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSER%2Bl.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/BSicon_WASSER%2Bl.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER%2Bl.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exhKRZWae"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg/20px-BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg/40px-BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSERr"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/BSicon_WASSERr.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSERr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/BSicon_WASSERr.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSERr.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Viaduct" title="Monmouth Viaduct">Monmouth Viaduct</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exSTR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/30px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/40px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exHST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_exHST.svg/20px-BSicon_exHST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_exHST.svg/40px-BSicon_exHST.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Wyesham_Halt_railway_station" title="Wyesham Halt railway station">Wyesham Halt</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exSTR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/30px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/40px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exABZgl"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/BSicon_exABZgl.svg/20px-BSicon_exABZgl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/BSicon_exABZgl.svg/40px-BSicon_exABZgl.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exCONTfq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/BSicon_exCONTfq.svg/20px-BSicon_exCONTfq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/BSicon_exCONTfq.svg/30px-BSicon_exCONTfq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/BSicon_exCONTfq.svg/40px-BSicon_exCONTfq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><i><a href="/wiki/Coleford_Railway" title="Coleford Railway">Coleford Railway</a></i></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exSTR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/30px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/BSicon_exSTR.svg/40px-BSicon_exSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exCONTf"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/BSicon_exCONTf.svg/20px-BSicon_exCONTf.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/BSicon_exCONTf.svg/30px-BSicon_exCONTf.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/BSicon_exCONTf.svg/40px-BSicon_exCONTf.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><i><a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley_Railway" title="Wye Valley Railway">Wye Valley Railway</a></i></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exTUNNEL1"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/BSicon_exTUNNEL1.svg/20px-BSicon_exTUNNEL1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/BSicon_exTUNNEL1.svg/30px-BSicon_exTUNNEL1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/BSicon_exTUNNEL1.svg/40px-BSicon_exTUNNEL1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Troy_tunnel" class="mw-redirect" title="Monmouth Troy tunnel">Monmouth Troy tunnel</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exhKRZWae"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg/20px-BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg/40px-BSicon_exhKRZWae.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSERr; WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSERr; WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/BSicon_WASSERr.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSERr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/BSicon_WASSERr.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSERr.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div class="RM_"></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/River_Trothy" title="River Trothy">River Trothy</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exHST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_exHST.svg/20px-BSicon_exHST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_exHST.svg/40px-BSicon_exHST.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dingestow_railway_station" title="Dingestow railway station">Dingestow</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exCONTf"><img 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class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1264714646" /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;font-style:italic;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Coleford,_Monmouth,_Usk_and_Pontypool_Railway" title="Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway">Coleford, Monmouth, Usk</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Coleford,_Monmouth,_Usk_and_Pontypool_Railway" title="Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway">and Pontypool Railway</a></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 3px 0 0;"> </td> <td> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td> </td> <td style="padding:0 0 0 3px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Rolls_statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Charles_Rolls_statue.jpg/250px-Charles_Rolls_statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Charles_Rolls_statue.jpg/330px-Charles_Rolls_statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Charles_Rolls,_Monmouth" title="Statue of Charles Rolls, Monmouth">Statue</a> of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Rolls" title="Charles Rolls">Charles Rolls</a> at Shire Hall</figcaption></figure> <p>The town was visited in 1802 by <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Admiral Horatio Nelson</a>, who knew the importance of the area's woodland in providing timber for the <a href="/wiki/British_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="British Navy">British Navy</a> and approved a Naval Temple built in his honour on the nearby <a href="/wiki/Kymin_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Kymin Hill">Kymin Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Horatio_Nelson_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horatio_Nelson-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wooden ships up to 500 tons were built at a shipyard just south of Monmouth bridge until the <a href="/wiki/Old_Wye_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Wye Bridge">new bridge</a> at <a href="/wiki/Chepstow" title="Chepstow">Chepstow</a> was opened in 1816. <a href="/wiki/Priory_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Priory Street">Priory Street</a>, the town's first bypass, was built in the 1830s, with the town slaughterhouse beneath. In 1840, at Monmouth's Shire Hall, <a href="/wiki/Chartism" title="Chartism">Chartist</a> protesters <a href="/wiki/John_Frost_(Chartist)" title="John Frost (Chartist)">John Frost</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zephaniah_Williams" title="Zephaniah Williams">Zephaniah Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Jones_(Chartist)" title="William Jones (Chartist)">William Jones</a> became the last men in Britain to be sentenced to be <a href="/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered" title="Hanged, drawn and quartered">hanged, drawn and quartered</a> after being found guilty of <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a> following <a href="/wiki/Newport_Rising" title="Newport Rising">riots in Newport</a> that led to 20 deaths. The sentences were later commuted to <a href="/wiki/Penal_transportation" title="Penal transportation">transportation</a> to <a href="/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_Land" title="Van Diemen's Land">Van Diemen's Land</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Until the establishment of an official police force in 1857, Monmouth had a <a href="/wiki/Parish_constable" title="Parish constable">parish constable</a> assisted by <a href="/wiki/Beadle" title="Beadle">beadles</a> to keep law and order.<sup id="cite_ref-kissack_making_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kissack_making-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The appointed constables held office for a year and were often men who had experience in other local government or community roles.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William Fuller who held office as Monmouth's constable for over twenty years in the early to mid 19th century, also served as Inspector of Nuisances, Chief of the Fire Brigade, Inspector of Weights and Measures, Clerk of the Market, and Conservator of the Wye.<sup id="cite_ref-kissack_making_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kissack_making-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fuller is also recorded as having rescued people from drowning, acted as emergency midwife, and rescued a woman from a flooded house. The types of crime that Fuller and subsequent police officers had to deal with in and around Monmouth as the century progressed were recorded in detail in the local newspapers, the <i>Merlin</i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_Beacon" title="Monmouthshire Beacon">Monmouthshire Beacon</a></i>. These crimes included theft of livestock, clothing, food, valuables, fuel (wood and coal); assault; vandalism; highway robbery; fraud; passing counterfeit coin; <a href="/wiki/Prostitution" title="Prostitution">prostitution</a>, and indecent exposure, as well as the more serious crimes of concealing the death of an infant, carnal knowledge without consent, and murder. The constable would have been present in court at <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Shire_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Monmouth Shire Hall">Shire Hall</a> when many of these cases came before the <a href="/wiki/Quarter_Sessions" class="mw-redirect" title="Quarter Sessions">Quarter Sessions</a> or <a href="/wiki/Assizes" title="Assizes">Assizes</a>. Once the court had passed sentence there was a wide range of punishments available to the authorities. Capital offences were dealt with at <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_County_Gaol" title="Monmouth County Gaol">Monmouth County Gaol</a>, as were whippings and sentences of hard labour. Although a police force of four constables and a sergeant was established in Monmouth in 1836, uncertain finances meant that within two years the force was reduced to just two constables.<sup id="cite_ref-kissack_making_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kissack_making-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Four railways were built to serve Monmouth between 1857 and 1883: the <a href="/wiki/Coleford,_Monmouth,_Usk_and_Pontypool_Railway" title="Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway">Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ross_and_Monmouth_Railway" title="Ross and Monmouth Railway">Ross and Monmouth Railway</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley_Railway" title="Wye Valley Railway">Wye Valley Railway</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Coleford_Railway" title="Coleford Railway">Coleford Railway</a>. All of these closed between 1917 and 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-handley&dingwall_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-handley&dingwall-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1896 a <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectric power</a> station was built on the River Monnow at Osbaston, providing electrical power to the town until 1953. A <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_New_Hydro_Scheme" title="Monmouth New Hydro Scheme">new hydroelectric station</a> was built on the same site and has operated since 2009, typically generating 670,000kWh annually.<sup id="cite_ref-WesternMail_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WesternMail-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Monmouth had close links with the <a href="/wiki/Rolls_family" title="Rolls family">Rolls family</a>, who built a mansion at <a href="/wiki/The_Hendre" title="The Hendre">The Hendre</a> just outside the town. In 1904, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Rolls" title="Charles Rolls">Charles Rolls</a> established a new <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Limited" title="Rolls-Royce Limited">car making business</a> with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Royce" title="Henry Royce">Henry Royce</a>, but in 1910 he was killed in an aeroplane crash at the age of 32; he is commemorated by a <a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Charles_Rolls,_Monmouth" title="Statue of Charles Rolls, Monmouth">statue in Agincourt Square</a>. St Mary's Church contains a memorial to the men of who died in <a href="/wiki/HMS_Monmouth_(1901)" title="HMS Monmouth (1901)">HMS <i>Monmouth</i></a>, which was sunk with all hands on 1 November 1914, by German cruisers <a href="/wiki/SMS_Scharnhorst" title="SMS Scharnhorst">SMS <i>Scharnhorst</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau" title="SMS Gneisenau">SMS <i>Gneisenau</i></a> off the <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chilean Coast</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Coronel" title="Battle of Coronel">Battle of Coronel</a> during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>; the church hosts an annual service in remembrance.<sup id="cite_ref-HMS_Monmouth_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HMS_Monmouth-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seven <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> ships have been named after the town, including a <a href="/wiki/Type_23_frigate" title="Type 23 frigate">Type 23 frigate</a> launched in 1991 which is still in operation. The remains of two <a href="/wiki/Pillbox_(military)" title="Pillbox (military)">pillboxes</a> stand on the Wyesham side of the Wye Bridge. They were built in 1940/1 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Command_(United_Kingdom)" title="Western Command (United Kingdom)">Western Command</a> Stop Line No. 27, designed to impede a German invasion force.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Monmouth remained a relatively quiet town for most of the 20th century; its passenger rail services ended in 1959, but its road connections were improved with the new <a href="/wiki/A40_road" title="A40 road">A40</a> bypassing the town in 1966, although this "severed the town ruthlessly from the river on which in the past it had depended",<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later connecting the town to the motorway system. These improved communications contributed to the development of the town, with suburbs extending beyond the rivers <a href="/wiki/River_Wye" title="River Wye">Wye</a> and <a href="/wiki/River_Monnow" title="River Monnow">Monnow</a> to the south-east, west and north of the old town centre.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2015 the town adopted a flag.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Monmouthpedia">Monmouthpedia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Monmouthpedia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall,_Monmouth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall%2C_Monmouth.jpg/250px-QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall%2C_Monmouth.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall%2C_Monmouth.jpg/330px-QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall%2C_Monmouth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall%2C_Monmouth.jpg/500px-QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall%2C_Monmouth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1019" data-file-height="688" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/QRpedia" title="QRpedia">QRpedia</a> <a href="/wiki/QR_code" title="QR code">QR code</a> outside <a href="/wiki/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth" title="Shire Hall, Monmouth">Shire Hall</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Monmouthpedia" title="Monmouthpedia">Monmouthpedia</a></div> <p>Monmouth is the focus of MonmouthpediA, the first Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/GLAM_(industry_sector)" class="mw-redirect" title="GLAM (industry sector)">GLAM</a> project to cover a whole town, creating Wikipedia articles on interesting and notable features and aspects of the town. It uses <a href="/wiki/QRpedia" title="QRpedia">QRpedia</a> <a href="/wiki/QR_code" title="QR code">QR codes</a> to deliver articles to users, in English, <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> or alternative languages.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Monmouth is in an area of <a href="/wiki/Devonian" title="Devonian">Devonian</a> age <a href="/wiki/Old_Red_Sandstone" title="Old Red Sandstone">Old Red Sandstone</a>, at the point where the <a href="/wiki/River_Wye" title="River Wye">River Wye</a> is joined by its tributary, the <a href="/wiki/River_Monnow" title="River Monnow">River Monnow</a>, and immediately north of the point at which the smaller <a href="/wiki/River_Trothy" title="River Trothy">River Trothy</a> flows into the Wye from the west. Immediately to the south, the Wye enters a valley, incised into sandstone and, in particular, <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous_Limestone" title="Carboniferous Limestone">Carboniferous Limestone</a>. The town is surrounded by wooded hills to its north, east and south, including Buckholt Wood (230 m or 750 ft), <a href="/wiki/The_Kymin" title="The Kymin">The Kymin</a> (260 m or 850 ft), and The Graig (258 m or 846 ft), with more gently undulating terrain to the west.<sup id="cite_ref-peterken_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peterken-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town centre itself is sited on a low-lying spur between the <a href="/wiki/Floodplain" title="Floodplain">floodplains</a> of the Wye and Monnow, and has frequently suffered from severe flooding.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Water-meadow" title="Water-meadow">water-meadows</a> to the north and south of the town centre, known respectively as <a href="/wiki/Vauxhall_Fields,_Monmouth" title="Vauxhall Fields, Monmouth">Vauxhall Fields</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chippenham_Mead" title="Chippenham Mead">Chippenham Mead</a>, have generally remained free of development.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In climatic terms, the town is located between those areas around the <a href="/wiki/Severn_Estuary" title="Severn Estuary">Severn Estuary</a> which show a maritime influence, and the cooler and drier conditions of the <a href="/wiki/The_Midlands" class="mw-redirect" title="The Midlands">English Midlands</a> further inland.<sup id="cite_ref-peterken_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peterken-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The nearby <a href="/wiki/Ross-on-Wye" title="Ross-on-Wye">Ross-on-Wye</a> <a href="/wiki/Weather_station" title="Weather station">weather station</a> shows average daily maximum temperatures ranging from 7.3 °C (45.1 °F) in January to 22.0 °C (71.6 °F) in July, with 1504 hours of sunshine per year, and an average annual rainfall of 706 millimetres (27.8 in).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg/250px-Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg/330px-Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg/500px-Monmouth_viaduct_and_iron_bridge_taken_from_a_quadcopter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>Missing rail links in Monmouth, foreground <a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley_Railway" title="Wye Valley Railway">Wye Valley Railway</a> and background <a href="/wiki/Ross_and_Monmouth_Railway" title="Ross and Monmouth Railway">Ross and Monmouth Railway</a> linked to missing <a href="/wiki/Hereford,_Ross_and_Gloucester_Railway" title="Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway">Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ross-on-Wye" title="Ross-on-Wye">Ross-on-Wye</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Since 1966, the <a href="/wiki/A40_road" title="A40 road">A40</a> <a href="/wiki/Dual_carriageway" title="Dual carriageway">dual carriageway</a> road runs past Monmouth linking with the <a href="/wiki/M50_motorway_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="M50 motorway (Great Britain)">M50 motorway</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ross-on-Wye" title="Ross-on-Wye">Ross-on-Wye</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-briefhistory_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> South of the town, the road passes through a short tunnel beneath Gibraltar Hill. It follows the <a href="/wiki/River_Wye" title="River Wye">River Wye</a> valley from the northeast of Monmouth. The <a href="/wiki/A466_road" title="A466 road">A466 road</a>, also known as the Wye Valley Road, crosses the A40, linking Chepstow and Hereford, and provides access to the <a href="/wiki/Severn_Bridge" title="Severn Bridge">Severn Bridge</a> on the <a href="/wiki/M48_motorway" title="M48 motorway">M48 motorway</a>. The distances of airports from Monmouth are, <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Airport" title="Bristol Airport">Bristol Airport</a> 41 miles (66 km), <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_Airport" title="Cardiff Airport">Cardiff Airport</a> 49 miles (79 km) and <a href="/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="London Heathrow Airport">London Heathrow Airport</a> 120 miles (190 km). Regular but infrequent bus services run between the town and <a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a>, Ross-on-Wye, <a href="/wiki/Coleford,_Gloucestershire" title="Coleford, Gloucestershire">Coleford</a>, Chepstow, <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Wales" title="Newport, Wales">Newport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abergavenny" title="Abergavenny">Abergavenny</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth has been without passenger rail services since January 1959; goods trains ran until 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-handley&dingwall_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-handley&dingwall-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth's main <a href="/wiki/Railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway station">railway station</a>, known as <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Troy_railway_station" title="Monmouth Troy railway station">Monmouth Troy</a>, was a coal distribution depot and a base for heavy goods vehicles for many years after its closure as a part of the rail network, but the building has now been dismantled and re-erected at <a href="/wiki/Winchcombe_railway_station" title="Winchcombe railway station">Winchcombe railway station</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_Warwickshire_Railway" title="Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway">Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other station at Monmouth was <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Mayhill_railway_station" title="Monmouth Mayhill railway station">Monmouth May Hill</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Ross_and_Monmouth_Railway" title="Ross and Monmouth Railway">Ross and Monmouth Railway</a>, built on the opposite bank of the Wye to the town centre. This operated for many years as Monmouth Sawmills and Gas Works after its closure as part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">rail network</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg/250px-Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg/375px-Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg/500px-Shire_Hall_Monmouth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth" title="Shire Hall, Monmouth">Shire Hall</a> in Agincourt Square, completed in 1724, as a court of <a href="/wiki/Assizes" title="Assizes">assizes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quarter_sessions" class="mw-redirect" title="Quarter sessions">quarter sessions</a>, scene of the <a href="/wiki/Chartism" title="Chartism">Chartist</a> trial in 1840.</figcaption></figure> <p>Monmouth is administered by <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_County_Council" title="Monmouthshire County Council">Monmouthshire County Council</a>, one of the 22 <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Wales" title="Local government in Wales">unitary local authorities in Wales</a> formed in 1996. Its offices were located until 2012 at the former Gwent County Hall at <a href="/wiki/Croesyceiliog" title="Croesyceiliog">Croesyceiliog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cwmbran" title="Cwmbran">Cwmbran</a>; its main offices are now located at Rhydar, just outside <a href="/wiki/Usk" title="Usk">Usk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town elects five county councillors, for the wards of Dixton with <a href="/wiki/Osbaston,_Monmouth" title="Osbaston, Monmouth">Osbaston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drybridge_(Monmouth_ward)" title="Drybridge (Monmouth ward)">Drybridge</a>, Overmonnow, Town and Wyesham; as of March 2024, three councillors are Welsh Labour, two independent and one Welsh Conservative.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town also has its own <a href="/wiki/Town_council#United_Kingdom" title="Town council">town council</a>, comprising 19 councillors elected every five years.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mayor of Monmouth for the year 2023/2024 is councillor Tom Kirton.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Monmouth had a <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Monmouth" title="Mayor of Monmouth">mayor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burgess_(title)" title="Burgess (title)">burgesses</a> in medieval times, and the town gained its first charter, from <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England" title="Henry VI of England">Henry VI</a>, in 1447.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was included within the <a href="/wiki/Skenfrith_(hundred)" class="mw-redirect" title="Skenfrith (hundred)">Hundred of Skenfrith</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_(historic)" title="Monmouthshire (historic)">county</a> of Monmouthshire was formed.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_Act_1835" title="Municipal Corporations Act 1835">Municipal Corporations Act 1835</a>, the town elected a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">borough council</a>, comprising a mayor, aldermen and councillors. In 1974 that corporation was abolished, and the town became part of the much larger <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Monmouth (district)">Monmouth District</a> (becoming Monmouth Borough in 1988), which until 1996 formed one of the five districts of <a href="/wiki/Gwent_(county)" title="Gwent (county)">Gwent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town was first represented in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> in 1536, when it was allocated one seat and <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_(historic)" title="Monmouthshire (historic)">the shire</a> two further seats.<sup id="cite_ref-Chisholm_1911,_pp._728–729_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chisholm_1911,_pp._728–729-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the late 17th century, the electorate of the three seats comprised the resident <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom of the city">freemen</a> of Monmouth, <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Wales" title="Newport, Wales">Newport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Usk" title="Usk">Usk</a>, and after the <a href="/wiki/Great_Reform_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Reform Act">Great Reform Act</a> of 1832 the constituency was generally referred to as the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Boroughs_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Monmouth Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)">Monmouth Boroughs</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1918" title="Representation of the People Act 1918">Representation of the People Act 1918</a> led to <a href="/wiki/Newport_(Monmouthshire)_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newport (Monmouthshire) (UK Parliament constituency)">Newport</a> becoming a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary borough">parliamentary borough</a> in its own right, and Monmouth was included in the new <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Monmouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Monmouth</a> <a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">county constituency</a>. The town has remained part of the Monmouth constituency in subsequent elections, although the constituency boundary has changed several times. Notable <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs) for the area have included the industrialist <a href="/wiki/Crawshay_Bailey" title="Crawshay Bailey">Crawshay Bailey</a> from 1852 to 1868; <a href="/wiki/Peter_Thorneycroft,_Baron_Thorneycroft" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft">Peter Thorneycroft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> in 1957–58 and <a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Conservative_Party" title="Chairman of the Conservative Party">Chairman of the Conservative Party</a> 1975–81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966; and <a href="/wiki/John_Stradling_Thomas" title="John Stradling Thomas">John Stradling Thomas</a>, MP from 1970 to 1991. The constituency has returned a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> MP at most recent elections; the current member is <a href="/wiki/David_TC_Davies" class="mw-redirect" title="David TC Davies">David Davies</a>, first elected in 2005. In elections for the <a href="/wiki/Senedd" title="Senedd">Senedd</a>, the town is part of the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_(Senedd_constituency)" title="Monmouth (Senedd constituency)">Monmouth constituency</a>; the current <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Senedd" title="Member of the Senedd">MS</a> is <a href="/wiki/Peter_Fox_(Welsh_politician)" title="Peter Fox (Welsh politician)">Peter Fox</a> (Conservative). Until January 2020, Monmouth was within the <a href="/wiki/Wales_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wales (European Parliament constituency)">Wales constituency</a> for the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Laws_in_Wales_Acts_1535-1542" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542">Laws in Wales Acts</a> created an anomaly in that, although Monmouthshire was noted as being in the 'Country or Dominion of Wales', it was made directly responsible to the courts of <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a> rather than falling under the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Great_Sessions_in_Wales" title="Court of Great Sessions in Wales">Court of Great Sessions in Wales</a>. Ecclesiastically, until 1836 the town of Monmouth fell within the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Hereford" title="Diocese of Hereford">diocese of Hereford</a>, rather than that of <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Llandaff" title="Diocese of Llandaff">Llandaff</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chisholm_1911,_pp._728–729_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chisholm_1911,_pp._728–729-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These arrangements gave rise to the widespread belief that the area was part of England rather than Wales, although most legislation for Wales was applied to it using the phrase "Wales and Monmouthshire".<sup id="cite_ref-Davies_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davies-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Church_Act_1914" title="Welsh Church Act 1914">Welsh Church Act 1914</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Monmouth" title="Diocese of Monmouth">Diocese of Monmouth</a> in 1921, and in 1949, Monmouthshire was included within the remit of the <a href="/wiki/Council_for_Wales_and_Monmouthshire" title="Council for Wales and Monmouthshire">Council for Wales and Monmouthshire</a>, an appointed precursor of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Office" title="Welsh Office">Welsh Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The issue of whether Monmouth should be considered as part of Wales for administrative purposes was finally clarified in law by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, which incorporated Monmouthshire within Wales.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monnow_Street,_Monmouth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Monnow_Street%2C_Monmouth.jpg/250px-Monnow_Street%2C_Monmouth.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Monnow_Street%2C_Monmouth.jpg/500px-Monnow_Street%2C_Monmouth.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Monnow_Street" title="Monnow Street">Monnow Street</a>, historically the site of the town's market and now its main shopping street</figcaption></figure> <p>Monmouth developed primarily as a market town, and <a href="/wiki/Agricultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Agricultural">agricultural</a> centre, rather than as a centre of industry. The <a href="/wiki/Wool" title="Wool">wool</a> industry was important in its early growth, and the town was a centre for the production of the very popular <a href="/wiki/Knitting" title="Knitting">knitted</a> and <a href="/wiki/Felt" title="Felt">felted</a> <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_cap" title="Monmouth cap">Monmouth caps</a>, from the 15th century onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-gtj_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gtj-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically, Monmouth also had iron and <a href="/wiki/Tinplate" title="Tinplate">tinplate</a> works, together with paper and corn mills. The town was also an important river port, with warehouses and wharves along the Wye later removed for the building of the A40 relief road.<sup id="cite_ref-ggatlandscape_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ggatlandscape-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chisholm_1911,_pp._728–729_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chisholm_1911,_pp._728–729-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Monmouth is now primarily a centre for <a href="/wiki/Service_industries" title="Service industries">service industries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tourism" title="Tourism">tourism</a>, and its good road communications have encouraged <a href="/wiki/Commuting" title="Commuting">commuting</a> to larger centres in the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Wales" title="South Wales">South Wales</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Monmouth and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce represents businesses in the town and aims to support and encourage their development.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town has a variety of both national and independent shops, most situated along Monnow Street. There are a number of supermarkets, some banks although the numbers have declined in the 21st century, and independent cafes and restaurants. <a href="/wiki/Church_Street,_Monmouth" title="Church Street, Monmouth">Church Street</a>, a cobbled pedestrianised street, contains craft shops, a book shop, a greengrocer, chemist, coffee shops and restaurants.<sup id="cite_ref-welcome_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welcome-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth has been a <a href="/wiki/Fairtrade" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairtrade">Fairtrade</a> town since 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A regular market takes place close to the Monnow Bridge, and occasionally in the traditional market place in Agincourt Square. There are numerous <a href="/wiki/Public_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Public house">public houses</a> in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2001 census,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth had relatively high proportions of its population working in the retail and wholesale sectors of the economy (19.5%, compared with 16.3% for Wales as a whole), education (11.8%, compared with 8.1% across Wales), and property services (10.8%, compared with 8.5% across Wales). The proportion working in manufacturing was lower than the average (16.5% compared with 17.3% across Wales), as was the proportion in public administration (4.3% compared with 6.8% across Wales). In terms of occupational groups,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the proportion of residents in managerial and professional posts was higher than average (30.1% compared with 22.7% across Wales), and the proportions in administrative and processing work were lower (8.7% in each group, compared with 12.2% and 10.2% respectively across Wales). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The usual resident population in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">2001 census</a> was 8,877.<sup id="cite_ref-onsage_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-onsage-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-planningpolicy_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-planningpolicy-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of that total, 1,760 (19.8%) were aged 15 or younger; 1,227 (13.8%) between 16 and 29; 1,687 (21.1%) between 30 and 44; 1,849 (20.8%) between 45 and 59; 1,386 (15.6%) between 60 and 74; and 968 (10.9%) aged 75 or over.<sup id="cite_ref-onsage_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-onsage-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Median" title="Median">median</a> age of residents was 42, in comparison to a Wales-wide median age of 39.<sup id="cite_ref-onsage_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-onsage-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town's population increased from 5,504 in 1961 to 8,877 in 2001, a growth of 61% over forty years.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_School.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Monmouth_School.jpg/250px-Monmouth_School.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Monmouth_School.jpg/330px-Monmouth_School.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Monmouth_School.jpg/500px-Monmouth_School.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1502" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_School" title="Monmouth School">Monmouth School</a> founded in 1614</figcaption></figure> <p>There are three <a href="/wiki/Primary_schools" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary schools">primary schools</a> in the town: Kymin View, Osbaston, and Overmonnow.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The secondary schooling needs of the town are served by <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Comprehensive_School" title="Monmouth Comprehensive School">Monmouth Comprehensive School</a> which had over 1,600 pupils in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Welsh_medium_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh medium education">Welsh medium</a> secondary education is provided at <a href="/wiki/Ysgol_Gyfun_Gwynllyw" title="Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw">Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pontypool" title="Pontypool">Pontypool</a>. Monmouth also has independent schooling including; the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_School" title="Monmouth School">Monmouth Schools</a>, a group of four <a href="/wiki/Boarding_school" title="Boarding school">boarding</a> and day schools. Monmouth <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Third_Age" title="University of the Third Age">University of the Third Age</a> (U3A) offers educational and leisure activities for retired and semi-retired people.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health_and_social_care">Health and social care</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Health and social care"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Health care services are provided by the <a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan_Health_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Aneurin Bevan Health Board">Aneurin Bevan Health Board</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a>. Following the closure of the <a href="/wiki/Cottage_Hospital,_Monmouth" title="Cottage Hospital, Monmouth">Cottage Hospital</a> in 2006, health services are provided at the <a href="/wiki/Monnow_Vale_Integrated_Health_and_Social_Care_Facility" title="Monnow Vale Integrated Health and Social Care Facility">Monnow Vale Integrated Health and Social Care Facility</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Bridges Community Centre</i> in <a href="/wiki/Drybridge_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Drybridge House">Drybridge House</a> adjacent to the Health and Social Care Facility provides support services to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouthshire,_MONMOUTH,_St_Mary_(Brian_Woodruffe)_(35166515344).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Monmouthshire%2C_MONMOUTH%2C_St_Mary_%28Brian_Woodruffe%29_%2835166515344%29.jpg/250px-Monmouthshire%2C_MONMOUTH%2C_St_Mary_%28Brian_Woodruffe%29_%2835166515344%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Monmouthshire%2C_MONMOUTH%2C_St_Mary_%28Brian_Woodruffe%29_%2835166515344%29.jpg/330px-Monmouthshire%2C_MONMOUTH%2C_St_Mary_%28Brian_Woodruffe%29_%2835166515344%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Monmouthshire%2C_MONMOUTH%2C_St_Mary_%28Brian_Woodruffe%29_%2835166515344%29.jpg/500px-Monmouthshire%2C_MONMOUTH%2C_St_Mary_%28Brian_Woodruffe%29_%2835166515344%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="933" data-file-height="1416" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Priory_Church,_Monmouth" title="St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth">St Mary's Priory Church</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the 2001 census, 74.2% of the town's resident population gave their religion as <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a>, with 16.7% stating "no religion". Minority religions included <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> (0.2%), <a href="/wiki/Sikh" class="mw-redirect" title="Sikh">Sikh</a> (0.2%), and <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> (0.2%).<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Monmouth contains <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">churches</a> of several <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">denominations</a>. Within the <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a>, the Monmouth Group of Parishes includes the <a href="/wiki/Priory_Church_of_St_Mary,_Monmouth" class="mw-redirect" title="Priory Church of St Mary, Monmouth">Priory Church of St Mary</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which holds regular weekly services.<sup id="cite_ref-monmouthgroupofparishes_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-monmouthgroupofparishes-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The church was founded as a <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> <a href="/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">priory</a> around 1075. It fell into ruin after the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">Dissolution of the Monasteries</a> in 1536, but was rebuilt as a <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a> in 1737, and then completely rebuilt again in 1882. The church spire is prominent in views of, and within, the town.<sup id="cite_ref-newman_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a> churches in the local group of parishes are <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Thomas_the_Martyr,_Monmouth" title="Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth">St Thomas</a>' at Overmonnow, and the churches at <a href="/wiki/Mitchel_Troy" title="Mitchel Troy">Mitchel Troy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wonastow" title="Wonastow">Wonastow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buckholt,_Monmouthshire" title="Buckholt, Monmouthshire">Buckholt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-monmouthgroupofparishes_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-monmouthgroupofparishes-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Monmouth" title="Diocese of Monmouth">Diocese of Monmouth</a>, the cathedral of which is the <a href="/wiki/Newport_Cathedral" title="Newport Cathedral">Cathedral Church of St Woolos</a> in Newport, is one of the six dioceses of the Church in Wales. The churches at Wyesham and <a href="/wiki/Dixton" title="Dixton">Dixton</a>, though within the boundaries of Wales, are administered by the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, and fall within the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Hereford" title="Diocese of Hereford">Diocese of Hereford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Monmouth" title="St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth">St Mary's Roman Catholic Church</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism">Catholic</a> church to be built in Wales after the <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>, and its construction followed the <a href="/wiki/Papists_Act_1778" title="Papists Act 1778">relaxation of laws against Catholics</a> in 1778. The building was extended on several occasions in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-mcs_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcs-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Methodist_Church" title="Monmouth Methodist Church">Monmouth Methodist Church</a> is noted for both its exterior and interior architectural features.<sup id="cite_ref-newman_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Baptist_Church" title="Monmouth Baptist Church">Baptist Church</a> was founded in 1818, though the current church was not constructed until 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a Christian Fellowship church at Wyesham.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_regular_events">Culture and regular events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Culture and regular events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Savoy_Theatre,_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Savoy_Theatre%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg/220px-The_Savoy_Theatre%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Savoy_Theatre%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg/330px-The_Savoy_Theatre%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/The_Savoy_Theatre%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg/440px-The_Savoy_Theatre%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1070497.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Entrance to the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Theatre,_Monmouth" title="Savoy Theatre, Monmouth">Savoy Theatre</a>, the oldest working theatre in Wales</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Theatre,_Monmouth" title="Savoy Theatre, Monmouth">Savoy Theatre</a>, on Church Street, is the oldest working theatre in Wales.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth is also home to the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_School_for_Boys#Buildings" class="mw-redirect" title="Monmouth School for Boys">Blake Theatre</a>, which opened in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local performance groups include the Off Centre Theatre Company, Monmouth Operatic Society, Monmouth Choral Society, and the Merlin Society, one of the largest music societies in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-welcome_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welcome-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_Show" title="Monmouthshire Show">Monmouthshire Show</a> (formerly the Monmouth Show) has been held each year, traditionally on the last Thursday of August, since 1919, though its history can be traced back to 1857. Prior to that there had been an agricultural society in the town dating back to the 1790s, which held ploughing competitions. The show, now held on the third Saturday in July, is the largest one-day agricultural show in Wales, with over 350 trade stands.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-townguide_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-townguide-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Museum" title="Monmouth Museum">Monmouth Museum</a>, formerly the <a href="/wiki/The_Nelson_Rooms,_Monmouth" class="mw-redirect" title="The Nelson Rooms, Monmouth">Nelson Museum</a>, is home to one of the largest collections of <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Horatio Nelson">Nelson</a> material, bequeathed to the town by <a href="/wiki/Lady_Llangattock" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Llangattock">Lady Llangattock</a>, mother of Charles Rolls. It also displays the only known example of an original <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_cap" title="Monmouth cap">Monmouth cap</a>, dating from the 16th century. The museum is currently closed, prior to its relocation to the Shire Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A small <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Regimental_Museum" title="Monmouth Regimental Museum">Regimental Museum</a> established in 1989 is housed in <a href="/wiki/Great_Castle_House" title="Great Castle House">Great Castle House</a>, a former town house built on the site of part of <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Castle" title="Monmouth Castle">Monmouth Castle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Music_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Monmouth Music Festival">Monmouth Festival</a>, a free nine-day music festival, has been running every year since 1982 and is one of the largest free music festivals in Europe. The town also holds the Rockfield Country Music Festival and the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Women%27s_Festival" title="Monmouth Women's Festival">Monmouth Women's Festival</a> each year. An annual regatta is held, each May, and a raft race takes place each year for the St David's Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Location scenes for two episodes of the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> drama series <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> were filmed in Monmouth: "<a href="/wiki/The_Unquiet_Dead" title="The Unquiet Dead">The Unquiet Dead</a>" (2005) and "<a href="/wiki/The_Next_Doctor" title="The Next Doctor">The Next Doctor</a>" (2008).<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth was named one of the best places to live in Wales in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020 the international <a href="/wiki/Beekeeping" title="Beekeeping">beekeeping</a> charity organisation <a href="/wiki/Bees_for_Development" title="Bees for Development">Bees for Development</a> designated Monmouth a "Bee Town", the first such in Britain. An annual Bee Festival is held, which takes place in the Nelson Garden and Chippenham Fields.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county and town councils have special policies in place for pollinators.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Welsh language and culture are promoted by the Monmouth & District Welsh Society <i>(Cymdeithas Gymraeg Trefynwy a'r Cylch)</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth is <a href="/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Twin towns and sister cities">twinned</a> with the <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Carbonne" title="Carbonne">Carbonne</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Archant_twinning_3_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning_3-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Waldbronn" title="Waldbronn">Waldbronn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-welcome_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welcome-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport,_leisure_and_tourism"><span id="Sport.2C_leisure_and_tourism"></span>Sport, leisure and tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Sport, leisure and tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_(9843225135).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_%289843225135%29.jpg/250px-Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_%289843225135%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_%289843225135%29.jpg/330px-Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_%289843225135%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_%289843225135%29.jpg/500px-Monmouth_Rowing_Club_boathouse_%289843225135%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4606" data-file-height="3454" /></a><figcaption>Boathouse of <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Rowing_Club" title="Monmouth Rowing Club">Monmouth Rowing Club</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Monmouth is home to <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Town_F.C." title="Monmouth Town F.C.">Monmouth Town F.C.</a>, a football club founded around 1905. It plays in the <a href="/wiki/Ardal_Leagues" title="Ardal Leagues">Ardal League South East</a> (third tier) at the <a href="/wiki/Chippenham_Mead" title="Chippenham Mead">Chippenham Sports Ground</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town has a leisure centre, on the site of the comprehensive school, with a 20m x 10m swimming pool. In 2011 the swimming pool underwent a £300,000 refurbishment.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is an 18-hole <a href="/wiki/Golf_course" title="Golf course">golf course</a> on the edge of the town, as well as the Rolls Golf Club at The Hendre. There are also cricket, bowls and rugby clubs.<sup id="cite_ref-welcome_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welcome-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth is the current training base for the Welsh Men's National Lacrosse team, which trained at Monmouth Girls School before the 2014 world championships. Monmouth has a rowing tradition on the River Wye, with the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Rowing_Club" title="Monmouth Rowing Club">Monmouth Rowing Club</a>, founded in 1928,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whose boathouse also hosts the rowing clubs of Monmouth Comprehensive School<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_School_for_Girls_Rowing_Club" title="Monmouth School for Girls Rowing Club">Monmouth School for Girls</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Monmouth School for Boys Rowing club, which has its own boathouse on the opposite bank of the Wye.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Monmouth has been established as a tourist centre for some 200 years. It is in close proximity to the <a href="/wiki/Forest_of_Dean" title="Forest of Dean">Forest of Dean</a> and Wye Valley. Tourist attractions within the town include the castle, the <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Museum" title="Monmouth Museum">museum</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Garden" title="Nelson Garden">Nelson Garden</a> and the Shire Hall where the <a href="/wiki/Tourist_Information_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Tourist Information Centre">Tourist Information Centre</a> and visitor centre is located. The area is also attractive to walkers. Both the <a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke_Path" title="Offa's Dyke Path">Offa's Dyke Path</a>, a long-distance footpath beginning in Chepstow and finishing in <a href="/wiki/North_Wales" title="North Wales">North Wales</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Wye_Valley_Walk" title="Wye Valley Walk">Wye Valley Walk</a> passing through the town.<sup id="cite_ref-welcome_50-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welcome-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable selfref">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_Monmouth,_Wales" title="Category:People from Monmouth, Wales">Category:People from Monmouth, Wales</a></div> <p>People associated with Monmouth include <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth" title="Geoffrey of Monmouth">Geoffrey of Monmouth</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>-based cleric, born in about 1100 and believed to be originally from the area, who wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Regum_Britanniae" title="Historia Regum Britanniae">Historia Regum Britanniae</a></i>, the "History of British Kings".<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_de_Clare,_6th_Earl_of_Hertford" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford">Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford</a> and Guardian of England, died at the castle in 1295,<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and King <a href="/wiki/Edward_II_of_England" title="Edward II of England">Edward II</a> was briefly imprisoned there in 1326.<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Saaler_1997,_p._134_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Saaler_1997,_p._134-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The future <a href="/wiki/Henry_V_of_England" title="Henry V of England">Henry V</a>, the victor at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt" title="Battle of Agincourt">battle of Agincourt</a> in 1415, was born in the castle in 1386.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philip_Evans_and_John_Lloyd" title="Philip Evans and John Lloyd">Philip Evans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jesuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesuit">Jesuit</a> priest and <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyr</a>, was born in the town in 1645.<sup id="cite_ref-Philip_Evans_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philip_Evans-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Horatio Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a> visited Monmouth on several occasions and in 1802, after visiting <a href="/wiki/The_Kymin" title="The Kymin">the Kymin</a> Naval Temple, spoke at the <a href="/wiki/The_Beaufort_Arms_Hotel,_Monmouth" class="mw-redirect" title="The Beaufort Arms Hotel, Monmouth">Beaufort Arms Hotel</a>. After his death, the garden where he dined with <a href="/wiki/Lady_Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Hamilton">Lady Hamilton</a> after the speech was named the <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Garden" title="Nelson Garden">Nelson Garden</a>. <a href="/wiki/William_Allen_(VC_1879)" title="William Allen (VC 1879)">William Allen</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a> for his actions in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift" title="Battle of Rorke's Drift">Battle of Rorke's Drift</a> (1879), and is buried in <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Cemetery" title="Monmouth Cemetery">Monmouth Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rockfield_Studios" title="Rockfield Studios">Rockfield Studios</a>, situated just outside the town, have hosted many prominent bands including <a href="/wiki/Queen_(band)" title="Queen (band)">Queen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oasis_(band)" title="Oasis (band)">Oasis</a>. Notable rock guitarist <a href="/wiki/Brian_Godding" title="Brian Godding">Brian Godding</a> was born in the town<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinGE_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and musician <a href="/wiki/Dave_Edmunds" title="Dave Edmunds">Dave Edmunds</a> lives there.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other former or current residents of the area have included poet and singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Jake_Thackray" title="Jake Thackray">Jake Thackray</a>, rugby international and commentator <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Butler_(rugby_player)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eddie Butler (rugby player)">Eddie Butler</a>, television presenter <a href="/wiki/Kate_Humble" title="Kate Humble">Kate Humble</a>, historian and TV presenter Professor <a href="/wiki/Saul_David" title="Saul David">Saul David</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Saul_David_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saul_David-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> astrologer <a href="/wiki/Russell_Grant" title="Russell Grant">Russell Grant</a>, historian <a href="/wiki/Keith_Kissack" title="Keith Kissack">Keith Kissack</a> and comedian <a href="/wiki/Miles_Jupp" title="Miles Jupp">Miles Jupp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Monmouth is the home of composer, organist and choirmaster <a href="/wiki/Robert_Jones_(Welsh_composer)" title="Robert Jones (Welsh composer)">Robert Jones</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MonmouthfromKymin.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="View westwards over Monmouth from The Kymin"><img alt="View of Monmouth from Kymin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/MonmouthfromKymin.jpg/120px-MonmouthfromKymin.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/MonmouthfromKymin.jpg/250px-MonmouthfromKymin.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="5040" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">View westwards over Monmouth from <a href="/wiki/The_Kymin" title="The Kymin">The Kymin</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_Street,_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_307856.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Church Street, a pedestrianised shopping area"><img alt="Church Street, a pedestrianised shopping area" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Church_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_307856.jpg/120px-Church_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_307856.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Church_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_307856.jpg/250px-Church_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_307856.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Church_Street,_Monmouth" title="Church Street, Monmouth">Church Street</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Pedestrianised" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedestrianised">pedestrianised</a> shopping area</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Agincourt_Street,_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_649056.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Part of Agincourt Square, showing the King's Head Hotel"><img alt="Part of Agincourt Square, showing the King's Head Hotel" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Agincourt_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_649056.jpg/120px-Agincourt_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_649056.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Agincourt_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_649056.jpg/180px-Agincourt_Street%2C_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_649056.jpg 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Wye_Bridge_at_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1498129.jpg/250px-Wye_Bridge_at_Monmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1498129.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Wye_Bridge,_Monmouth" title="Wye Bridge, Monmouth">Wye Bridge</a> on the <a href="/wiki/River_Wye" title="River Wye">River Wye</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Nelson_pavilion_in_2011,_Nelson_Garden,_Monmouth.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Nelson Garden"><img alt="The Nelson Garden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/The_Nelson_pavilion_in_2011%2C_Nelson_Garden%2C_Monmouth.jpg/120px-The_Nelson_pavilion_in_2011%2C_Nelson_Garden%2C_Monmouth.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/The_Nelson_pavilion_in_2011%2C_Nelson_Garden%2C_Monmouth.jpg/250px-The_Nelson_pavilion_in_2011%2C_Nelson_Garden%2C_Monmouth.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1186" data-file-height="810" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/The_Nelson_Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="The Nelson Garden">The Nelson Garden</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monmouth_from_Livox_Wood_-_geograph.org.uk_-_203771.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Closed railway lines from Monmouth Troy to Chepstow, Ross-on-Wye thence to either Hereford and Gloucester"><img alt="Closed railway lines from Monmouth Troy to Chepstow, Ross-on-Wye thence to either Hereford and Gloucester" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Monmouth_from_Livox_Wood_-_geograph.org.uk_-_203771.jpg/120px-Monmouth_from_Livox_Wood_-_geograph.org.uk_-_203771.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Monmouth_from_Livox_Wood_-_geograph.org.uk_-_203771.jpg/250px-Monmouth_from_Livox_Wood_-_geograph.org.uk_-_203771.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Closed railway lines from <a href="/wiki/Monmouth_Troy_railway_station" title="Monmouth Troy railway station">Monmouth Troy</a> to <a href="/wiki/Chepstow_railway_station" title="Chepstow railway station">Chepstow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ross-on-Wye_railway_station" title="Ross-on-Wye railway station">Ross-on-Wye</a> thence to either <a href="/wiki/Hereford_railway_station" title="Hereford railway station">Hereford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gloucester_railway_station" title="Gloucester railway station">Gloucester</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Wales" title="Outline of Wales">Outline of Wales</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monmouth&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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(1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Monmouthshire"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Monmouthshire">"Monmouthshire" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">728–</span>729.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Monmouthshire&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E728-%3C%2Fspan%3E729&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Davies-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Davies_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Davies_(historian)" title="John Davies (historian)">John Davies</a>, <i>A History of Wales</i>, 1993, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-028475-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-028475-3">0-14-028475-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1949/apr/26/council-for-wales-membership">Statement by Clement Attlee on the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230113182105/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1949/apr/26/council-for-wales-membership">Archived</a> 13 January 2023 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Local government Act 1972 (c.70), sections 1, 20 and 269</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gtj-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gtj_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ01788/">Gathering the Jewels: Monmouth cap, 16th century</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120503100815/http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ01788/">Archived</a> 3 May 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/2467/draft_economic_development_strategy">Monmouthshire County Council: Draft Economic Development Strategy</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110929091027/http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/2467/draft_economic_development_strategy">Archived</a> 29 September 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mdctc.co.uk/">Monmouth and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-welcome-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-welcome_50-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-welcome_50-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-welcome_50-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-welcome_50-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-welcome_50-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouth.gov.uk/pages/monmouth.asp">Monmouth Town Council: Welcome to Monmouth</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120424161512/http://www.monmouth.gov.uk/pages/monmouth.asp">Archived</a> 24 April 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthshiregreenweb.co.uk/FairtradeForum/index.htm">Monmouth Fair Trade Forum</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110716115833/http://www.monmouthshiregreenweb.co.uk/FairtradeForum/index.htm">Archived</a> 16 July 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.visitmonmouthshire.com/explore/monmouth/places-to-eat-and-drink-monmouth">"Places to eat and drink in Monmouth"</a>. Visit Monmouthshire<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Places+to+eat+and+drink+in+Monmouth&rft.pub=Visit+Monmouthshire&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visitmonmouthshire.com%2Fexplore%2Fmonmouth%2Fplaces-to-eat-and-drink-monmouth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1326147045774&enc=1&dsFamilyId=27">ONS, Neighbourhood Statistics: Monmouthshire 004, Industry of Employment</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131025052833/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1326147045774&enc=1&dsFamilyId=27">Archived</a> 25 October 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1326147045774&enc=1&dsFamilyId=33">ONS, Neighbourhood Statistics: Monmouthshire 004, Occupation Groups</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131025024947/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1326147045774&enc=1&dsFamilyId=33">Archived</a> 25 October 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-onsage-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-onsage_55-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-onsage_55-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-onsage_55-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1326393607191&enc=1&dsFamilyId=276">ONS Neighbourhood Statistics: Area: Monmouthshire 004, Age Structure (KS02)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131025053716/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1326393607191&enc=1&dsFamilyId=276">Archived</a> 25 October 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-planningpolicy-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-planningpolicy_56-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.planningpolicy.monmouthshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/256/town_and_community_council_statistics_report">Monmouthshire County Council: Town and community council statistics</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120309225856/http://www.planningpolicy.monmouthshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/256/town_and_community_council_statistics_report">Archived</a> 9 March 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10189070&c_id=10001043&add=N">Vision of Britain: Monmouth</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220414073130/https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10189070&c_id=10001043&add=N">Archived</a> 14 April 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140112151805/http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/primary-school-directory/">"Primary School Directory"</a>. Monmouthshire County Council. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/primary-school-directory/">the original</a> on 12 January 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Primary+School+Directory&rft.pub=Monmouthshire+County+Council&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monmouthshire.gov.uk%2Fprimary-school-directory%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140614161420/http://monmouthcomprehensive.org.uk/">"Monmouth Comprehensive School"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://monmouthcomprehensive.org.uk/">the original</a> on 14 June 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Monmouth+Comprehensive+School&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmonmouthcomprehensive.org.uk%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140812211221/http://www.monmouthu3a.com/">"Monmouth U3A"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthu3a.com/">the original</a> on 12 August 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Monmouth+U3A&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monmouthu3a.com%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140719025406/http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/866/page/40474">"Aneurin Bevan Health Board : Monnow Vale Integrated Health and Social Care Facility"</a>. Health in Wales. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/866/page/40474">the original</a> on 19 July 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Aneurin+Bevan+Health+Board+%3A+Monnow+Vale+Integrated+Health+and+Social+Care+Facility&rft.pub=Health+in+Wales&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wales.nhs.uk%2Fsitesplus%2F866%2Fpage%2F40474&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120419081647/http://www.bridgescommunity.org.uk/index.php">"Bridges Community Centre"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bridgescommunity.org.uk/index.php">the original</a> on 19 April 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bridges+Community+Centre&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bridgescommunity.org.uk%2Findex.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonmouth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1326322243839&enc=1">ONS, 2001 Census, Key Statistics, Monmouthshire 004</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131025051715/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=284294&c=Monmouth&d=140&e=15&g=421081&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1326322243839&enc=1">Archived</a> 25 October 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthparishes.org/index.php?page=St-Marys-Priory-Church">"St Mary's Priory Church" at monmouthparishes.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120329063210/http://www.monmouthparishes.org/index.php?page=St-Marys-Priory-Church">Archived</a> 29 March 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-monmouthgroupofparishes-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-monmouthgroupofparishes_65-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-monmouthgroupofparishes_65-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthchurchestogether.org.uk/index.php?page=monmouth-group-of-parishes">Monmouth Group of Parishes</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131111123920/http://www.monmouthchurchestogether.org.uk/index.php?page=monmouth-group-of-parishes">Archived</a> 11 November 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.achurchnearyou.com/result.php?query=monmouth">Church of England: Monmouth</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131027235231/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/result.php?query=monmouth">Archived</a> 27 October 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mcs-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mcs_67-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Monmouth Civic Society, <i>Monmouth Heritage Blue Plaque Trail</i>, n.d.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthbaptistchurch.co.uk/history.htm">Monmouth Baptist Church: History</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131224100844/http://www.monmouthbaptistchurch.co.uk/history.htm">Archived</a> 24 December 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Accessed 11 January 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monmouthchurchestogether.org.uk/index.php?page=wyesham-christian-fellowship">Wyesham Christian Fellowship</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131111123938/http://www.monmouthchurchestogether.org.uk/index.php?page=wyesham-christian-fellowship">Archived</a> 11 November 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. 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title="Monmouthshire">Monmouthshire</a> <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Wales" title="Local government in Wales">principal area</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Principal settlements</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abergavenny" title="Abergavenny">Abergavenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caldicot" title="Caldicot">Caldicot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chepstow" title="Chepstow">Chepstow</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Monmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Usk" title="Usk">Usk</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wales_Monmouthshire_locator_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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<li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blaenawey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Blaenawey (page does not exist)">Blaenawey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bryn" title="The Bryn">The Bryn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryngwyn" title="Bryngwyn">Bryngwyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckholt,_Monmouthshire" title="Buckholt, Monmouthshire">Buckholt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botany_Bay,_Monmouthshire" title="Botany Bay, Monmouthshire">Botany Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catbrook" title="Catbrook">Catbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caer_Llan" title="Caer Llan">Caer Llan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caerwent" title="Caerwent">Caerwent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapel_Hill,_Monmouthshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire">Chapel Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clydach,_Monmouthshire" title="Clydach, Monmouthshire">Clydach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coed_Morgan" title="Coed Morgan">Coed Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coed-y-paen" title="Coed-y-paen">Coed-y-paen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crick,_Monmouthshire" title="Crick, Monmouthshire">Crick</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Croes_y_pant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Croes y pant (page does not exist)">Croes y pant</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Croes_Hywel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Croes Hywel (page does not exist)">Croes Hywel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cross_Ash" title="Cross Ash">Cross Ash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crossway,_Monmouthshire" title="Crossway, Monmouthshire">Crossway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cwmcarvan" title="Cwmcarvan">Cwmcarvan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cwmyoy" title="Cwmyoy">Cwmyoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devauden" title="Devauden">Devauden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dingestow" title="Dingestow">Dingestow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dixton" title="Dixton">Dixton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earlswood,_Monmouthshire" title="Earlswood, Monmouthshire">Earlswood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaerllwyd" title="Gaerllwyd">Gaerllwyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilwern" title="Gilwern">Gilwern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glascoed" title="Glascoed">Glascoed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goetre" class="mw-redirect" title="Goetre">Goetre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govilon" title="Govilon">Govilon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Oak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Great Oak (page does not exist)">Great Oak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grosmont,_Monmouthshire" title="Grosmont, Monmouthshire">Grosmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwehelog" title="Gwehelog">Gwehelog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwernesney" title="Gwernesney">Gwernesney</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Highmoor_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Highmoor Hill (page does not exist)">Highmoor Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoaldalbert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hoaldalbert (page does not exist)">Hoaldalbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itton" title="Itton">Itton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kemeys_Commander" title="Kemeys Commander">Kemeys Commander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilgwrrwg_Common" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilgwrrwg Common">Kilgwrrwg Common</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kingcoed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kingcoed (page does not exist)">Kingcoed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Mill,_Monmouthshire" title="Little Mill, Monmouthshire">Little Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanarth,_Monmouthshire" title="Llanarth, Monmouthshire">Llanarth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanbadoc" title="Llanbadoc">Llanbadoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llancayo" title="Llancayo">Llancayo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanddewi_Rhydderch" title="Llanddewi Rhydderch">Llanddewi Rhydderch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llandewi_Skirrid" class="mw-redirect" title="Llandewi Skirrid">Llandewi Skirrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llandegveth" title="Llandegveth">Llandegveth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llandenny" title="Llandenny">Llandenny</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Llandevenny&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Llandevenny (page does not exist)">Llandevenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llandogo" title="Llandogo">Llandogo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanellen" title="Llanellen">Llanellen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanelly" title="Llanelly">Llanelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanfair_Kilgeddin" title="Llanfair Kilgeddin">Llanfair Kilgeddin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanfihangel_Rogiet" class="mw-redirect" title="Llanfihangel Rogiet">Llanfihangel Rogiet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanfihangel_Crucorney" class="mw-redirect" title="Llanfihangel Crucorney">Llanfihangel Crucorney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanfoist" title="Llanfoist">Llanfoist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangattock-Lingoed" class="mw-redirect" title="Llangattock-Lingoed">Llangattock-Lingoed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangattock-Vibon-Avel" title="Llangattock-Vibon-Avel">Llangattock-Vibon-Avel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangovan" title="Llangovan">Llangovan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangua" title="Llangua">Llangua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangwm-isaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Llangwm-isaf">Llangwm-isaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangybi,_Monmouthshire" title="Llangybi, Monmouthshire">Llangybi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanhennock" title="Llanhennock">Llanhennock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanishen,_Monmouthshire" title="Llanishen, Monmouthshire">Llanishen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanllowell" title="Llanllowell">Llanllowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanover" title="Llanover">Llanover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llansoy" title="Llansoy">Llansoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanthony" title="Llanthony">Llanthony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llantilio_Crossenny" title="Llantilio Crossenny">Llantilio Crossenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llantilio_Pertholey" title="Llantilio Pertholey">Llantilio Pertholey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llantrisant,_Monmouthshire" title="Llantrisant, Monmouthshire">Llantrisant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanvair-Discoed" class="mw-redirect" title="Llanvair-Discoed">Llanvair-Discoed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanvapley" title="Llanvapley">Llanvapley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanvetherine" title="Llanvetherine">Llanvetherine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanwenarth" title="Llanwenarth">Llanwenarth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern" title="Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern">Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanvihangel_Gobion" title="Llanvihangel Gobion">Llanvihangel Gobion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magor,_Monmouthshire" title="Magor, Monmouthshire">Magor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamhilad" title="Mamhilad">Mamhilad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mardy,_Monmouthshire" title="Mardy, Monmouthshire">Mardy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland,_Monmouthshire" title="Maryland, Monmouthshire">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathern" title="Mathern">Mathern</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maypole,_Monmouthshire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maypole, Monmouthshire (page does not exist)">Maypole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchel_Troy" title="Mitchel Troy">Mitchel Troy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitcheltroy_Common&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mitcheltroy Common (page does not exist)">Mitcheltroy Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monkswood,_Monmouthshire" title="Monkswood, Monmouthshire">Monkswood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mounton" title="Mounton">Mounton</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mynydd-bach,_Monmouthshire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mynydd-bach, Monmouthshire (page does not exist)">Mynydd-bach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mynyddislwyn" title="Mynyddislwyn">Mynyddislwyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nant-y-derry" title="Nant-y-derry">Nant-y-derry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Narth" title="The Narth">The Narth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Inn" title="New Inn">New Inn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Mills,_Monmouthshire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Mills, Monmouthshire (page does not exist)">New Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newbridge-on-Usk" title="Newbridge-on-Usk">Newbridge-on-Usk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newcastle,_Monmouthshire" title="Newcastle, Monmouthshire">Newcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newchurch,_Monmouthshire" title="Newchurch, Monmouthshire">Newchurch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldcastle,_Monmouthshire" title="Oldcastle, Monmouthshire">Oldcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandy,_Monmouthshire" title="Pandy, Monmouthshire">Pandy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pen-croes-oped&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pen-croes-oped (page does not exist)">Pen-croes-oped</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pen-how" class="mw-redirect" title="Pen-how">Pen-how</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pen-yr-hoel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pen-yr-hoel (page does not exist)">Pen-yr-hoel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pen-y-cae-mawr" title="Pen-y-cae-mawr">Pen-y-cae-mawr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pen-y-clawdd" title="Pen-y-clawdd">Pen-y-clawdd</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pen-twyn,_Monmouthshire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pen-twyn, Monmouthshire (page does not exist)">Pen-twyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penallt" title="Penallt">Penallt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penpergwm" title="Penpergwm">Penpergwm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penperlleni" title="Penperlleni">Penperlleni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penrhos,_Monmouthshire" title="Penrhos, Monmouthshire">Penrhos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portskewett" title="Portskewett">Portskewett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pwllmeyric" title="Pwllmeyric">Pwllmeyric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raglan,_Monmouthshire" title="Raglan, Monmouthshire">Raglan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redbrook" title="Redbrook">Redbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redwick,_Monmouthshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Redwick, Monmouthshire">Redwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockfield,_Monmouthshire" title="Rockfield, Monmouthshire">Rockfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogiet" title="Rogiet">Rogiet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Arvans" title="St Arvans">St Arvans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Brides_Netherwent" title="St Brides Netherwent">St Brides Netherwent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Maughans" title="St Maughans">St Maughans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirenewton" title="Shirenewton">Shirenewton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skenfrith" title="Skenfrith">Skenfrith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudbrook,_Monmouthshire" title="Sudbrook, Monmouthshire">Sudbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tintern" title="Tintern">Tintern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tredunnock" title="Tredunnock">Tredunnock</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tregagle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tregagle (page does not exist)">Tregagle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tregare" title="Tregare">Tregare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trelleck_Grange" title="Trelleck Grange">Trelleck Grange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trelleck" class="mw-redirect" title="Trelleck">Trelleck</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Twyn-y-Sheriff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Twyn-y-Sheriff (page does not exist)">Twyn-y-Sheriff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Undy" title="Undy">Undy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Upper_Green&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Upper Green (page does not exist)">Upper Green</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wernyrheolydd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wernyrheolydd (page does not exist)">Wernyrheolydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitebrook" title="Whitebrook">Whitebrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitson" title="Whitson">Whitson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilcrick" title="Wilcrick">Wilcrick</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Grosmont_Castle" title="Grosmont Castle">Grosmont Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llangybi,_Monmouthshire" title="Llangybi, Monmouthshire">Llangibby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanfair_Kilgeddin" title="Llanfair Kilgeddin">Llanfair Kilgeddin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llantrisant,_Monmouthshire" title="Llantrisant, Monmouthshire">Llantrisant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanvair_Discoed" title="Llanvair Discoed">Llanvair Discoed</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Monmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newcastle,_Monmouthshire" title="Newcastle, Monmouthshire">Newcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pen_y_Clawdd_Castle" title="Pen y Clawdd Castle">Pen y Clawdd Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penrhos,_Monmouthshire" title="Penrhos, Monmouthshire">Penrhos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raglan_Castle" title="Raglan Castle">Raglan Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skenfrith_Castle" title="Skenfrith Castle">Skenfrith Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trellech" 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