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Chepstow (Welsh: Cas-gwent) is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the tidal River Wye, about 2 miles (3 km) above its confluence with the River Severn, and adjoining the western end of the Severn Bridge.
Chepstow Castle (Welsh: Castell Cas-gwent) at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain. Located above cliffs on the River Wye , construction began in 1067 under the instruction of the Norman Lord William FitzOsbern .
Chepstow is now part of the Arena Racing Company, also called ARC Racing and Leisure Group a private UK company, created in 2012 by the merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing. It owns and operates several racecourses. [6]
As Chepstow developed as a market town and port around the castle and priory during the mediaeval period, the nave became used as the parish church. Accommodation was built on the south side of the church, in the 13th century, [ 1 ] and the first vicar appointed by authority of the king, John de Hemmyngburg, is recorded in 1348.
St Peter's Cave is a natural opening in the base of the limestone of Hardwick Cliff, below Bulwarks Camp and above the mean high-water mark on the River Wye in Chepstow.It is potentially the site of the earliest discovered evidence of human occupation in this part of the lower Wye Valley.
The area south of the A48 Newport Road contains a number of large 19th-century villas which were on the outskirts of Chepstow when built, and commanded extensive views eastwards towards Sedbury. Nearby, on the road towards Mathern , Chepstow Cemetery was established in 1855, after the town's churchyard was deemed to be overcrowded; it received ...
Part of the Port Wall, Chepstow, showing an information board prepared by the Chepstow Society. The Port Wall in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a late thirteenth century stone wall, which was constructed for the twin purposes of defence and tax collection by permitting users of the town's market only one point of access through the wall at the Town Gate.
The deer park of Chepstow Castle, the original park, dating from the Middle Ages was enclosed by a fence. In the 17th century, this was replaced with a stone wall. Striguil, the original name for Chepstow Castle, was an important Marcher lordship and the park was created by Roger Bigod, great-grandson of William Marshal, in the