Gaerllwyd Explained

Country:Wales
Official Name:Gaerllwyd
Static Image:Gaerllwyd Baptist Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 301156.jpg
Static Image Caption:Gaerllwyd Baptist Chapel
Unitary Wales:Monmouthshire
Lieutenancy Wales:Gwent
Constituency Westminster:Monmouth
Post Town:USK
Postcode Area:NP

Gaerllwyd is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom.

Location

Gaerllwyd is located 6miles south east of Usk and 7miles north west of Chepstow on the B4235 road.

History and amenities

Gaerllwyd is set in a very rural agricultural area in the heart of Monmouthshire. The village has a Baptist chapel, situated on the Gaerllwyd Crossroads, which is still in regular religious use. Near the chapel is a Neolithic burial chamber, or cromlech dated to around 4,000 BC. It is made up of a capstone which would have had three upright stone supports.[1] The outer cairn has been removed by road construction and stone robbing, although archaeologists are uncertain whether a covering mound would ever have been in place.[2] To the south there are some Early Bronze Age monuments including two stone circles, a standing stone and a round barrow cemetery.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gallery - Gaerllwyd Baptist Chapel . Shirenewtoncc.org.uk . 25 May 2016 . 23 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160623173401/http://www.shirenewtoncc.org.uk/gallery/ . dead .
  2. Book: Castleden, Rodney. Neolithic Britain: New Stone Age Sites of England, Scotland, and Wales . 25 May 2016 . 1992 . Routledge. 978-0-415-05845-2. 386.
  3. Book: Children . George . Nash . George . A Guide To Prehistoric Sites In Monmouthshire . Logaston Press . 1996 . 1-873827-49-0 . 33–34.