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Monmouth (County town of Monmouthshire)

the county town of Monmouthshire, England. Its chief features are the ruined castle of John of Gaunt, in which Henry V. was born; the parish church, dating from the 14th century, and restored in 1882, with a graceful spire 200 feet high; the bridge over the Monnow (1272), with its "Welsh gate," and near it a small Norman chapel; a fragment of a Benedictine priory, with "Geoffrey of Monmouth's study"; the new town hall, built in 1888, and a grammar school (1614). Pop. about 5,500.