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By Keith E. Morgan

Chepstow (Welsh: Cas-gwent) is a city in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjacent the border with Gloucestershire, England on a bend of the River Wye. The sector has been occupied considering Neolithic instances, and the Romans outfitted a payment just about town after they arrived in advert forty eight. Chepstow itself was once based through the Normans, who equipped the citadel in approximately 1067. within the heart a while, Chepstow built as a port famous for its imports of wine and exports of trees and bark.

In the past due eighteenth century, town was once a spotlight of early tourism as a part of the ‘Wye Tour’. The vacationer nonetheless performs a huge half within the economic system of Chepstow, yet some time past fishing and small-scale shipbuilding were carried on within the city for hundreds of years. Chepstow via Time deals the reader a true perception into the existence and instances of town and of the various alterations that experience taken position through the years to allow it to develop to the prominence it enjoys today.

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