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Abergavenny, due to its location and easy access to the Brecon Beacons National Park and the nearby Black Mountains, is often referred to as the ‘Gateway to Wales’. The town is also close to Offa’s Dyke and various walks such as the Usk Valley Walk.

The origins of the Monmouthshire town of Abergavenny (in Welsh meaning ‘Mouth of the River Gavenny’) can be dated back to the location of Gobannium, a Roman fort on the site in around the 2nd century AD to guard the road that linked the fortress of Burrium in the south with the Brecons and mid-Wales. It also served to subdue the Silures, the indigenous Iron Age tribe. Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered during excavations in the 1960s when foundations for a new post office and telephone exchan

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