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Monmouthshire is a county in south east Wales. The name derives from the historic county of Monmouthshire of which it covers the eastern 60%. The largest town is Abergavenny. Other towns and large villages are Caldicot, Chepstow, Monmouth, Magor and Usk.
Monmouthshire is a place name in the United Kingdom. It can refer to:
- Monmouthshire, a local government principal area in Wales
- Monmouthshire (historic), the historic county covering a wider area
- Monmouthshire County Council, the local authority that since 1996 administers the principal area and previously the administrative county (1889–1974)
- Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency based on the historic county (1536–1885)
Monmouthshire ( or ), also known as the County of Monmouth (; ), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.
It corresponds approximately to the present principal areas of Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Newport and Torfaen, and those parts of Caerphilly and Cardiff east of the Rhymney River.
The eastern part of the county is mainly agricultural, while the western valleys had rich mineral resources. This led to the area becoming highly industrialised with coal mining and iron working being major employers from the 18th century to the late 20th century.
Monmouthshire's Welsh status was ambiguous between the 16th and 20th centuries, with it considered by some to be part of England during this time; its legal inclusion in Wales was clarified by the 1972 Local Government Act, the same act which abolished the county as an administrative area.
Monmouthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Parliament of England from 1536 until 1707, of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs).
In 1885 the Monmouthshire constituency was divided to create North Monmouthshire, South Monmouthshire and West Monmouthshire.
Usage examples of "monmouthshire".
A similar cult had existed in Monmouthshire, and there had even been one in Scotland.
There are no frightful squares, and straight lines in Monmouthshire fences.
They were two light infantry battalions, the 43rd from Monmouthshire and the 52nd from Oxfordshire, and they reckoned themselves the best of the best.
Usher places it at Gwent, Monmouthshire, which name, he ways, was taken from Caer-Went, near Chepstow.
In 1894 this was formed into an urban district, which was enlarged in 1900 by the addition of a portion of the parish of Aberystruth in Monmouthshire, the whole being at the same time consolidated into a civil parish.
Canon Sylvester Malone attributed the glory to Burrium, Monmouthshire, a town situated, as Camden narrates, near the spot where the River Brydhin empties itself into the Usk.
No, it is M o, so must be Monmouthshire or Montgomeryshire, stay, there is a t in the middle.
Baptist Church in Wales, and died on the 20th day of January, 1873, at the age of 54 years, at Beaufort, in Monmouthshire, leaving a widow and seven children to mourn their great loss.
From Henry, they had received grants of forfeited estates, both in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire.
English county of Monmouthshire, near Wales, a region of coal mines and iron works, there are the ruins of Raglan Castle, about a mile from a village of the same name.
Day in the little Monmouthshire town where I was born, Caerleon-on-Usk.