Abergavenny, Monmouthshire - River Usk - real photo postcard c.1940s

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  The River Usk, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire - real photo type
• Publisher:  none given
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d. orange
• Postmark(s):  Brynmawr Sep 1950 cds
• Sent to:  Miss Elaine Aitkins?, 134 Park Gate Road, Coventry
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Abergavenny (Welsh: Y Fenni), meaning Mouth of the River Gavenny, is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located 15 miles (24 km) west of Monmouth on the A40 and A465 roads, 6 miles (10 km) from the English border. Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches. The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales.

Abergavenny is promoted as the ""Gateway to Wales"".^[1][2] Situated at the confluence of a tributary stream, the Gavenny, and the River Usk,^[3] it is almost surrounded by two mountains – the Blorenge (559 m)^[4] and the Sugar Loaf (596 m)^[5] – and five hills: Ysgyryd Fawr (The Skirrid), Ysgyryd Fach (Skirrid Fach), Deri, Rholben and Mynydd Llanwenarth, known locally as ""Llanwenarth Breast"". It provides access to the nearby Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons National Park. The Offa's Dyke Path is close by and the Marches Way, the Beacons Way and Usk Valley Walk all pass through the town.

The name derives from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning ""river of the blacksmiths"", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting. The name is related to the modern Welsh word gof (blacksmith), and so is also associated with the Welsh smith Gofannon from folklore. The river later became, in Welsh, Gafenni, and the town's name became Abergavenny, meaning ""mouth of (Welsh: Aber) the Gavenny (Gafenni)"". In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.^[6]

Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk^[3] which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium (Usk) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, (Caerleon) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales. It was also built to keep the peace among the local British Iron Age tribe, the Silures.^{[citation needed]}

Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered west of the castle when excavating the foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building in the late 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

Abergavenny grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny. The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called ""Gateway to Maine"", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France. He founded the Benedictine priory, now the Priory Church of St Mary, in the late 11th century. The Priory belonged originally to the Benedictine foundation of St. Vincent Abbaye at Le Mans. It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or ""tithe"" of the profits of the castle and town. The church contains some unique alabaster effigies, church monuments and unique medieval wood carving, such as the Tree of Jesse.^{[citation needed]}

Owing to its geographical location the town was frequently embroiled in the border warfare and power play of the 12th and 13th centuries in the Welsh Marches. In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the site of the Massacre.^{[citation needed]} Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose (d. 1211).

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=monmouthshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted