Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Map of places in Monmouthshire compiled from this list See the list of places in Wales for places in other principal areas. This is a list of places in Monmouthshire , Wales , sorted alphabetically.
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.
Caldicot, Monmouthshire (1 C, 10 P) Chepstow (3 C, 42 P) M. ... Pages in category "Towns in Monmouthshire" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Location of Monmouthshire in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Monmouthshire, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
Pages in category "Villages in Monmouthshire" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
The first Monmouthshire County Council was created in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, taking over the local government functions of the quarter sessions. [5] That council was based in Newport , initially meeting at the town hall and later building itself headquarters at Shire Hall in 1902.
The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, [36] which was founded in the early 1990s. It is also home to the Abergavenny Welsh society, Cymreigyddion y Fenni, [37] and the local Abergavenny Eisteddfod. [38]