Abergavenny
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Abergavenny is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. Abergavenny is promoted as a "Gateway to Wales"; it is approximately 7 miles from the border with England and is located where the A
The clock tower of Abergavenny Town Hall, Cross Street
St Mary's Priory Church
Abergavenny and Ysgyryd Fawr at right in the 1890s
Abergavenny Boys National School (1865)
Abergavenny Castle
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Abergavenny Castle is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087. It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen
Abergavenny
…geographical location, the town was frequently embroiled in the border warfare and power play of the 12th and 13th centuries in the Welsh Marches. In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the site of a massacre of Seisyll ap Dyfnwal and his associates by William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber. Reference to a market at Abergavenny is…
Interior of the surviving curtain wall and four-storey tower, looking west from inside the castle grounds
Curtain wall of Abergavenny castle, 2008
J. Hassell, Abergavenny Castle, drawing and engraving, 1807.
The refurbished 19th-century square hunting lodge "keep" now houses the Abergavenny Museum.