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New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant is a medieval town in Wales, protected by Cadw under reference RD154. The settlement occupies ground underlain by Wenlock Rocks, a formation of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone dating to the Wenlock epoch. This geology, typical of the Welsh borderland, provides a naturally stable foundation for urban development.
The South West Quadrant represents a planned settlement characteristic of Norman colonisation in the Welsh Marches, with the regular street pattern and burgage plots reflecting the ordered urban planning of the medieval period. Such towns served as administrative and commercial centres, defended by fortifications and designed to consolidate Anglo-Norman control over conquered territories. The quadrant division visible in the townscape reflects the systematic division of medieval urban land.
The surviving archaeological landscape preserves evidence of medieval occupation, with the underlying geology influencing both the town's construction and its subsequent preservation. The Wenlock bedrock, whilst containing beds of softer mudstone and siltstone, would have required selective quarrying for building stone, with harder sandstone layers potentially exploited for structures. Cadw's protection of this quadrant recognises its significance as a record of medieval urban development and settlement patterns in the Welsh Marches region.
New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference RD154. View the official record →
New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant is a medieval town in Wales, protected by Cadw under reference RD154.
New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a town. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is RD154.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gilwern Brook round barrow (5.3 km), Worsell Wood cairn cemetery (5.5 km), Llanfihangel Hill round barrow (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
New Radnor Medieval Town: South West Quadrant stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.