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"I shall never forget where Down Street is, I assure you," he said cheerfully. "And pray, why Down Street in particular?" "Because that is where I met Simmonds, last Wednesday, and arranged to take on his job." "In your mind, then, it figures as broken-down-street," cooed Cynthia. After that the Mercury crossed the Monnow, and Mrs.
From the market-place, the chief street of the town leads down to these suburbs, crossing over an old-time bridge. The town has its church and the ruins of a priory, while perched on a cliff overlooking the Monnow is its castle, displaying rather extensive but not very attractive remains.
Ascending a hill to the northward, a view is obtained over the valleys of the three picturesque streams the Dore, Dulas, and Monnow that afterwards unite their waters; and, proceeding up the Dore, we come to the village of Abbey Dore, with the roofless ruins of its abbey, a part of which is utilized for the parish church, though scarcely anything is now left beyond fragments of the conventual buildings.
We next come to the group of lordships held about this time by William de Braose, lord of Bramber in Sussex. They stretched from Radnor to Gower, from the Monnow to the Llwchwr, and included the castles of Builth, Brecon, Abergavenny. But he held these lands by different titles, and they were never welded together.
He halted in front of the Welsh Gate on Monnow Bridge, and told her that although the venerable curiosity dates back to 1270 it is nevertheless the last defensive work in Britain in which serious preparations were made for civil war, as it was expected that the Chartists would march from Newport to attack Monmouth Jail in 1839. "Six hundred years," mused Cynthia aloud.
Marching to the most remote of these, Grosmont, on the upper Monnow, Henry spent several days in the castle, while his army lay around under canvas. On the night of November 11, the sleeping soldiers were suddenly set upon by the barons and their Welsh allies; they fled unarmed to the castle, or scattered in confusion.
The little river Dore is one of the head-waters of the Monnow, and it flows through the picturesque region known as the Golden Valley, just on the edge of Brecon, where the trout-fishing is as attractive as the scenery. All its streams rise upon the flanks of the Black Mountains, and the village of Pontrilas is its railway-station at the entrance to the valley.
Briard Castle Tintern Abbey The Wyncliff Wyntour's Leap Chepstow Castle The River Monnow The Golden Valley The Black Mountains Pontrilas Court Ewias Harold Abbey Dore The Scyrrid Vawr Wormridge Kilpeck Oldcastle Kentchurch Grosmont The Vale of Usk Abergavenny Llanthony Priory Walter Savage Landor Capel-y-Ffyn Newport Penarth Roads Cardiff The Rocking-Stone Llandaff Caerphilly Castle and its Leaning Tower Swansea The Mumbles Oystermouth Castle Neath Abbey Caermarthen Tenby Manorbeer Castle Golden Grove Pembroke Milford Haverfordwest Milford Haven Pictou Castle Carew Castle.
The beautiful valley, with its picturesque scenery, expands somewhat as the Wye approaches its junction with the river Monnow and flows through a succession of green meadows. Here, between the two rivers on a low spur, a prolongation of their bordering hills, stands Monmouth, its ancient suburbs spreading across the Monnow.
Thus King Henry became the patron of Monmouth, and in front of the town hall has been erected an inartistic effigy of a knight in full armour, with the inscription, "Henry V, born at Monmouth, August 9, 1387." The old bridge over the river Monnow is unique, with an odd, castellated gateway at one end, probably intended not so much for defense as for collecting tolls.
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