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Bridge Street, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5EZ

Number 19 Bridge Street was built in the late 18th or early 19th century, possibly incorporating some earlier fabric. Constructed of rendered brick under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=2512 Chepstow, the most easterly town in Wales, is located on the tidal River Wye, some 3 miles above its confluence with the River Severn. There is evidence of continuous human occupation from the Mesolithic period. The town grew in importance when the Normans erected a castle at what was the lowest bridging point of the River Wye. The town flourished as a port, being exempt from English taxation, and it mainly traded in timber and bark from the Wye Valley. The town became an important centre for tourism from the late eighteenth century.

The Boat House, number 20 bridge Street, was possibly originally a store, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. Constructed of rendered brick under a very long pitched slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=27088 Chepstow, the most easterly town in Wales, is located on the tidal River Wye, some 3 miles above its confluence with the River Severn. There is evidence of continuous human occupation from the Mesolithic period. The town grew in importance when the Normans erected a castle at what was the lowest bridging point of the River Wye. The town flourished as a port, being exempt from English taxation, and it mainly traded in timber and bark from the Wye Valley. The town became an important centre for tourism from the late eighteenth century.

Dotted around the town are a number of these ceramic markers.

In an elegant late 18th Century town house, at the bottom of the town near the river. The house, known as Gwy House, was built in 1796 by Warren Jane the Younger, an Apothecary. It was owned for many years in the 19th century by a respected local surgeon, later becoming a Red Cross Hospital for soldiers in the First World War and until recently was the Chepstow & District Hospital. A display in the museum vividly illustrates the changing uses of the building over the years. The museum's exhibits reflect the development of Chepstow, once an important port and bustling market town. The displays show the growth and decline of the port with its valuable wine and timber trades. Shipbuilding and salmon fishing and many other aspects of Chepstow's working life are shown in imaginative settings which recapture an essence of the original scenes. Pleasures and pastimes are recalled in original photographs, programmes and posters.

On the corner of Bridge Street and St Ann Street, this large house has been converted into apartments, numbered 21, 21A, 22 and 22A Bridge Street. Probably built in the 16th or 17th century, refronted in the late 18th or early 19th century and mostly rebuilt in the late 20th century incorporating a Victorian former shopfront. Constructed of rendered brick, lined to simulate ashlar, under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=2513 Chepstow, the most easterly town in Wales, is located on the tidal River Wye, some 3 miles above its confluence with the River Severn. There is evidence of continuous human occupation from the Mesolithic period. The town grew in importance when the Normans erected a castle at what was the lowest bridging point of the River Wye. The town flourished as a port, being exempt from English taxation, and it mainly traded in timber and bark from the Wye Valley. The town became an important centre for tourism from the late eighteenth century.

On the right here. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5263074 The GR on the box is short for Georgius Rex, Latin for King George, in this case King George V who reigned from May 1910-January 1936.

St Ann Street is between Bridge Street and Lower Church Street. Double yellow lines on both sides indicate no parking at any time.

The sign facing Bridge Street points towards St Ann's Street, 17 miles from Newport and 17 miles from Monmouth. Other signs point the same way, to a Baptist church, an alternative car park and a cycle route.

The sign directs all traffic from Bridge Street into St Ann Street. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5263011

There is a car park on the left, below the castle. The slip road on the left is the exit from there, into the (one-way) Bridge Street. A short distance ahead, there are just two options: double back into the centre of Chepstow, or cross the old bridge across the River Wye into England.