Pwllmeyric
Pwllmeyric is a small village in Monmouthshire, Wales, located 1 mile south west of Chepstow, on the A48 road within the parish of Mathern. The name Pwllmeyric 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Pwllmeurig”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chepstow Community Hospital and Moynes Court.
Chepstow Community Hospital
Hospital
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Chepstow Community Hospital is a community hospital located on the east side of St Lawrence Road in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
Moynes Court
Castle
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Moynes Court is a Grade II* listed building in the village of Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales, about 3 miles south west of Chepstow. 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.
St Tewdric’s Church
Church
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St Tewdric's Church is a Church in Wales parish church in Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is purportedly built over the resting place of Saint Tewdrig for whom it is named.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chepstow and Beachley.
Chepstow
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Chepstow is an ancient market town and former port situated on the River Wye in South Wales a short distance upstream from where the Wye and Severn rivers merge.
Beachley
Hamlet
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Beachley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, near the border with Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located on a peninsula at the confluence of the rivers Wye and Severn, where the Severn Bridge ends and the smaller secondary bridge over the River Wye begins, both bridges carrying the M48 motorway between England and Wales though the motorway is not directly accessible from the village. Beachley is situated 2 miles east of Pwllmeyric.
Sedbury
Village
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Sedbury is a village in the Forest of Dean district of west Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the eastern bank of the River Wye, facing the town of Chepstow in Monmouthshire. Sedbury is situated 2 miles northeast of Pwllmeyric.
Pwllmeyric
- Category: locality
- Location: Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.62854° or 51° 37′ 43″ northLongitude
-2.69808° or 2° 41′ 53″ westElevation
128 feet (39 metres)Open location code
9C3VJ8H2+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 6186339509OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Pwllmeyric” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pwllmeyric”
- Breton: “Pwllmeurig”
- Dutch: “Pwllmeyric”
- French: “Pwllmeyric”
- Irish: “Pwllmeurig”
- Portuguese: “Pwllmeyric”
- Spanish: “Pwllmeyric”
- Swedish: “Pwllmeyric”
- Welsh: “Pwllmeurig”
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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 “Pwllmeyric”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.