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Monmouth is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated on where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, two miles from the Wales–England border. The population in the 2011 census was
Monnow Bridge
Monmouth Castle, part of which remains in use as a regimental headquarters and museum
The only known example of an original Monmouth cap, dating from the 16th century, on display at Monmouth Museum
Statue of Charles Rolls at Shire Hall
Monnow Bridge
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Monnow Bridge, in Monmouth, Wales, is the only remaining fortified river bridge in Great Britain with its gate tower standing on the bridge. Such bridge towers were common across Europe from medieval
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…Monmouth. The town was the site of a small Roman fort, Blestium, and became established after the Normans built Monmouth Castle c. 1067. The medieval stone gated bridge is the only one of its type remaining in Britain. The castle later came into the possession of the House of Lancaster, and was the birthplace of King…
Sketch by J. M. W. Turner, 1795
The bridge and gatehouse in 1818, drawn by Copley Fielding
Monnow Bridge and Gatehouse, c. 1866