Chepstow Castle at the Wye crossing was a major Royalist stronghold in the southern Marches. Parliament besieged and took it in 1645, cutting communications between Bristol and Wales. The great river fortress with its Norman hall is among the oldest stone castles in Wales.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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