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The garden contains rare remnants of a Tudor layout including walling, terraces and fishponds. Now an "extraordinarily remote (and) melancholy" [77] farmhouse, the house was built in the mid 17th century by the Cecil family. [77] The garden comprises a long terrace, bordered by stone walls, and is thought to date from the time of the house's ...
Raglan (/ ˈ r æ ɡ l ə n /; (Welsh: Rhaglan) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, United Kingdom. It is located some 9 miles south-west of Monmouth, midway between Monmouth and Abergavenny on the A40 road very near to the junction with the A449 road .
Raglan Castle and the Civil War in Monmouthshire. Newport: Newport & Monmouthshire Branch of the Historical Association and Chepstow Society. OCLC 249172228. — (1980). The Story of Monmouthshire, Volume 1, From the earliest times to the Civil War. Monmouth: Monnow Press. ISBN 978-0-95066-1810. OCLC 866777550. — (1979).
In the centre of Mitchel Troy on the old road from Monmouth to Raglan [117] 2086: Pwll: Tregare: 19 November 1953: House 2 km (1.2 mi) north of Raglan, south-west of the church at Tregare [118] 2090: Ty Mawr: Dingestow: 19 November 1953
Raglan Castle (Welsh: Castell Rhaglan) is a late medieval castle located just north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales.The modern castle dates from between the 15th and early 17th centuries, when the successive ruling families of the Herberts and the Somersets created a luxurious, fortified castle, complete with a large hexagonal keep, known as the ...
Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer; Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the south, and Torfaen, Newport and Blaenau Gwent to the west.
Castle Farm, Raglan, in the county of Monmouth, is prominently sited 100 yards (91 m) east of Raglan Castle. The farm is approached from its own drive and shielded from close public view. It was built just before the English Civil War, probably around 1630 and is one of the earliest brick buildings in South Wales.
It is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 that plays at Bailey Park, Abergavenny. In the 2018–19 season, they play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division Three East A league. [39] Abergavenny Hockey Club, formed in 1897, currently play at the Abergavenny Leisure Centre on Old Hereford Road. [40]