Sights in Monmouth (Trefynwy)
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Nelson Museum & Local History Centre
Admiral Horatio Nelson visited Monmouth twice in 1802, officially en route to inspect Pembrokeshire forests for timber for his ships (though it may have had more to do with his affair with local heiress, Lady Emma Hamilton). Despite this tenuous connection Lady Llangattock, local aristocrat and mother of Charles Stewart Rolls, became an obsessive collector of 'Nelsoniana', and the results of her obsession can be seen in the Nelson Museum & Local History Centre.
It's fascinating to see how complete Nelson worship was in 19th-century Britain, with forged relics such as locks of his hair, alongside copies of his first attempt to write with his left hand. Children can make Ne…
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Shire Hall
Agincourt Sq is dominated by the arcade of the 1724 Shire Hall, and a statue of former Monmouth resident Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910), one half of the team that founded Rolls-Royce. Not only a pioneering motorist and aviator, he was the first British citizen to die in an air accident (his statue is clutching a model of the Wright biplane in which he died).
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Monmouth Castle
Nearby on Castle Hill are the meagre remains of Monmouth Castle, where Henry V was born in 1397. Except for the great tower, it was dismantled in the 17th century and the stone used to build Great Castle House next door, now headquarters of the Royal Monmouthshire Regiment.
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Monnow Bridge
Monnow Bridge, at the southwest end of Monnow St, is the UK's only complete example of a late-13th-century fortified bridge. Much of what you see now was restored in 1705. On the far side of the bridge is the partly Norman St Thomas's Church.
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Regimental Museum
Inside Great Castle House is the volunteer-run Regimental Museum, a labour of love squeezed into a cupboard-sized space, tracing the regiment's history from the 11th century to the Gulf War.
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