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Raglan (/ ˈ r æ ɡ l ə n /; Welsh: Rhaglan) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales. 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. It is the location of Raglan Castle, built for William ap Thomas and now maintained ...
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 ...
Raglan railway station was a station on the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway.It was not opened when the line was originally built, but constructed in 1876 to replace two previous stopping places, Raglan Footpath, a small station which was situated a little further west, and Raglan Road, an unofficial halt which closed in July 1876 and was reopened as 'Raglan Road Crossing Halt' in ...
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.
Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Raglan, the great-grandson of the 1st Lord Raglan, British Commander during the Crimean War, was a soldier, author and resident of Cefntilla Court in Monmouthshire. [3] Raglan was also a Commissioner for Ancient Monuments in Wales and both he and Fox were pioneers of the study of vernacular architecture, being founder ...
It was intended to serve the village of Raglan, Monmouthshire. Raglan Road Crossing Halt was opened on the same site in November 1930 and was closed in 1955 [1] along with the rest of the line due to an engine drivers strike. [2] The station was situated 7 miles and 59 chains from Monmouth Troy and about 1 mile from the new Raglan station. The ...
They believed the new mayor had urged “rip-off artists” to raid the suburbs. In saying “hit 8 Mile Road,” Young evoked the boundary separating Detroit and suburban Oakland and Macomb counties.
The Hundred of Raglan. A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 2, Part 1. Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke. OCLC 895940653. — (1913). The Hundred of Trelech. A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 2, Part 2. Mitchell, Hughes ...