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Mathern

Mathern

Mathern is a village, community, and historic parish in , south east Wales, about 3 miles south west of the town of , close to the Severn Estuary, the and the M48 motorway.
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  • Type: Village with 928 residents
  • Description: village in Monmouthshire, Wales
  • Also known as: “Matharn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moynes Court and St Tewdric’s Church.

Castle
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is a Grade II* listed building in the village of Mathern, , Wales, about 3 miles south west of . An earlier building was rebuilt as a private residence by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandaff, in about 1609/10, and much of the building remains from that period.

Church
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St Tewdric's Church is a in Mathern, , . It is purportedly built over the resting place of Saint Tewdrig for whom it is named.

Church
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is a former parish and hamlet in , south east , 3 miles south west of and adjacent to the Severn Estuary. It is now the site of a large golf and country club, the Hotel & Country Club, which was previously a large manor house and deer park belonging to the Lewis family.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pwllmeyric and Beachley.

Village
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is a small village in , Wales, located 1 mile south west of , on the A48 road within the parish of Mathern. The name means, in Welsh, "Meurig's pool" and refers to the pwll or creek of the Severn estuary which, before it silted up, linked the village to the sea.

Hamlet
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is a village in , England, near the border with , Wales. It is located on a peninsula at the confluence of the rivers and , where the ends and the smaller secondary bridge over the begins, both bridges carrying the M48 motorway between England and Wales though the motorway is not directly accessible from the village. is situated 2 miles northeast of Mathern.

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is an ancient market town and former port situated on the River Wye in a short distance upstream from where the Wye and Severn rivers merge.

Mathern

Latitude
51.61664° or 51° 36′ 60″ north
Longitude
-2.69203° or 2° 41′ 31″ west
Population
928
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Open location code
9C3VJ885+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7411790846
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2642913
Wiki­data ID
Q6786950
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Mathern” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Mathern”
  • Breton: “Matharn”
  • Bulgarian: “Матхерн”
  • Catalan: “Matharn”
  • Cebuano: “Mathern”
  • Chinese: “Mathern”
  • Chinese: “馬森”
  • Cornish: “Matharn”
  • Dutch: “Mathern”
  • French: “Mathern”
  • Irish: “Matharn”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mathern”
  • Persian: “مثرن”
  • Russian: “Матерн”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Matharn”
  • Swedish: “Mathern”
  • Welsh: “Matharn”
  • Welsh: “Mathern”
  • Welsh: “Merthyr Tewdrig”

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Highlights include St. Tewdric’s Well and Millers Arms.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mathern”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.