Country: | Wales |
Official Name: | Goytre |
Static Image: | Goytre Village Hall & Social Club - geograph-6139878-by-Jaggery.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Goytre Village Hall & Social Club |
Unitary Wales: | Monmouthshire |
Lieutenancy Wales: | Gwent |
Constituency Westminster: | Monmouth |
Post Town: | USK |
Postcode Area: | NP |
Goytre (; Welsh: Goetre) is a village in the community of Goetre Fawr in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom.
The population of the whole of Goetre Fawr, including Goytre, taken at the 2011 census was 2,393.[1]
Goytre is located five miles south of Abergavenny and four miles north of Pontypool, Torfaen.
The word Goytre derives from the Welsh word for settlement/town in the woods.
Goytre has a canal wharf https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/302313 and visitor centre https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/451882 on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/476643, complete with interactive sculptures https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/445277. The Llanover private estate, once presided over by Lady Llanover owns the surrounding land.