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The town's leisure centre is located adjoining Chepstow School. The centre is owned by Monmouthshire County Council. Its facilities include an indoor swimming pool and both indoor and outdoor games pitches. [77] Chepstow Harriers running club, founded in the 1880s, meets twice weekly at the centre in addition to scheduled events. [78]
The St Mary's ward covers the town centre of the Chepstow, which includes the Priory parish church of the same name. The ward is bordered to the north and east by the River Wye (and the England border). To the west is Chepstow's St Kingsmark ward and to the south are the Chepstow wards of Larkfield and St Christopher's. [1]
In 1648, the Gate was the scene of a skirmish between the town's Royalist defenders and troops led by Oliver Cromwell, who gained entry to the town and besieged and won the Castle. In 1756, country people and colliers from the nearby Forest of Dean raided the town, and had to be driven off by guns mounted on the Town Gate and on the Wye Bridge ...
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The NP postcode area, also known as the Newport postcode area, [2] is a group of eighteen postcode districts, which are subdivisions of fourteen post towns. These cover south-east Wales, including Newport, Pontypool, Abergavenny, Monmouth, Chepstow, Abertillery, Usk, Tredegar, New Tredegar, Ebbw Vale, Crickhowell, Blackwood, Caldicot and Cwmbran, plus a small part of the English counties of ...
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 largest town is Abergavenny, with the other major towns being Chepstow, Monmouth, and Usk. [1] The county is 850 km 2 (330 sq mi) in extent, [ 2 ] with a population of 95,200 as of 2020 [update] . [ 3 ]