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Monmouth

Monmouth is the county town of in . Monmouth is a delightful, bustling, market town near where the three rivers Wye, Monnow and Trothy meet on the border with .
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  • Type: Town with 10,100 residents
  • Description: town in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Trefynwy”
  • Postal code: NP25

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monmouth Castle and Monnow Bridge.

Castle
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a castle close to the centre of the town of Monmouth, the county town of , on a hill above the in south-east .

Photo: Bob Crowther, CC BY 2.0.
, in Monmouth, Wales, is the only remaining fortified river bridge in with its gate tower standing on the bridge. Such bridge towers were common across Europe from medieval times, but many were destroyed due to urban expansion, diminishing defensive requirements and the increasing demands of traffic and trade.

Historic building
Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , Monmouth, , is a prominent building on Agincourt Square in the town centre. It was built in 1724, and was formerly the centre for the assize courts and quarter sessions for .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Overmonnow and Dixton.

Suburb
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is a suburb of the town of Monmouth, in , which is located to the west of the and the . It developed in the Middle Ages, when it was protected by a defensive ditch, the Clawdd-du or "Black Dyke", the remains of which are now protected as an ancient monument.

Village
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is a small village located 1 mile north east of Monmouth, on the banks of the , in , south east . The parish originally comprised the two manors of Newton and Hadnock, on either side of the river.

Village
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is a village and community in , south east Wales, in the . It is located 3 miles south west of the county town of Monmouth, just off the A40 road leading towards .

Monmouth

Latitude
51.8099° or 51° 48′ 36″ north
Longitude
-2.716° or 2° 42′ 58″ west
Population
10,100
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MMO
Open location code
9C3VR75M+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27199865
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2642313
Wiki­data ID
Q156990
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Monmouth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “منمث”
  • Arabic: “مَنْمَث”
  • Arabic: “مُنْمُث”
  • Arabic: “مونموث”
  • Armenian: “Մոնմութ”
  • Asturian: “Monmouth”
  • Asturian: “Trefynwy”
  • Bashkir: “Монмут”
  • Basque: “Monmouth”
  • Belarusian: “Монмут”
  • Bengali: “মুমাউথ”
  • Breton: “Menoe”
  • Breton: “Trevenoe”
  • Bulgarian: “Монмът”
  • Bulgarian: “Мънмът”
  • Catalan: “Monmouth”
  • Catalan: “Trefynwy”
  • Cebuano: “Monmouth”
  • Chinese: “Monmouth”
  • Chinese: “蒙茅斯”
  • Cornish: “Trefynwy”
  • Croatian: “Monmouth”
  • Czech: “Monmouth”
  • Danish: “Monmouth”
  • Dutch: “Monmouth”
  • Esperanto: “Monmouth”
  • Estonian: “Monmouth”
  • Faroese: “Monmouth”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Monmouth”
  • Finnish: “Monmouth”
  • French: “Monmouth”
  • Galician: “Monmouth”
  • German: “Monmouth”
  • Greek: “Μόνμαθ”
  • Greek: “Μόνμουθ”
  • Gujarati: “મોનમાઉથ”
  • Hebrew: “מונמאות‘”
  • Hebrew: “מונמות‘”
  • Hebrew: “מונמות’”
  • Hebrew: “מונמות”
  • Hebrew: “מונמת‘”
  • Hindi: “मॉनमाउथ”
  • Hungarian: “Monmouth”
  • Indonesian: “Monmouth”
  • Irish: “Monmouth”
  • Irish: “Trefynwy”
  • Italian: “Monmouth”
  • Japanese: “モンマス”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊನ್ಮೌತ್”
  • Korean: “만머스”
  • Korean: “몬머스”
  • Latin: “Blestium”
  • Latin: “Monemuta”
  • Latin: “Monovaga”
  • Latin: “Monumethia”
  • Lithuanian: “Monmaufas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Monmouth”
  • Macedonian: “Монмут”
  • Malayalam: “Monmouth”
  • Malayalam: “മാൻമത്ത്”
  • Malayalam: “മൊൻമത്”
  • Malayalam: “മോൻമത്”
  • Marathi: “मॉन्मथ”
  • Marathi: “विकिपीडिया शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monmouth”
  • Nepali: “मनमाउथ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monmouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monmouth”
  • Norwegian: “Monmouth”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Monmouth”
  • Persian: “مون ماوت”
  • Persian: “مونماوت”
  • Polish: “Monmouth”
  • Portuguese: “Monmouth”
  • Russian: “Монмут”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Trefynwy”
  • Serbian: “Monmouth”
  • Serbian: “Monmut”
  • Serbian: “Монмут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monmouth”
  • Slovak: “Monmouth”
  • Slovak: “Trefynwy”
  • Slovenian: “Monmouth”
  • Slovenian: “Trefynwy”
  • Spanish: “Monmouth”
  • Swedish: “Monmouth”
  • Swedish: “Trefynwy”
  • Tamil: “மோன்மௌத்”
  • Telugu: “మొంమౌత్”
  • Ukrainian: “Монмут”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Monmouth”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Trefynwy”
  • Urdu: “مانماؤتھ”
  • Urdu: “منمث”
  • Vietnamese: “Monmouth”
  • Welsh: “Monmouth”
  • Welsh: “Trefynwy”
  • Yiddish: “מאנמעטה”
  • “Monmouth”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Monmouth”. Photo: Hrcolyer, CC BY 3.0.