Nevill Street background and the area around St John’s Church This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. Nevill Street began when the medieval town wall was built after the first murage grant in 1241 and the land inside was divided into burgage plots fronting onto the main streets of […]
To return to 5 Nevill Street click * here * To return to 7 & 7A Nevill Street click * here * To return to 9 Nevill Street click * here *
To return to 6-8 Nevill Street click * here * . To return to 6-8 Nevill Street click * here * .
To return to 29 Nevill Street click * here *
GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO FLANNEL STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. The street once linked Cross Street (the main thoroughfare of the walled medieval town) to Castle Street, which was probably the centre of the prehistoric settlement and later (11th and 12th centuries), one of the main streets […]
GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO MARKET STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. This is one of the main west-east routes dividing the planned late Norman 13th century town into its typical regular blocks. Market Street now runs from the wide north end of Cross Street, where the […]
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GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO MONK STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. The numbering of the street is difficult. Even numbers on the north side begin at No 4 (no 2 having been demolished and No 6 represents the space below it). The lean-to shop against no […]
To return to 7 & 9 Monk Street click * here * outside the Monk Street shop
A map from 1760 shows the poultry market in St John’s Street. There is evidence to suppose that the triangular area enclosed by Nevill Street (Rother Street until the 19th century) High Street and St John’s Lane (Chicken Street on the 1834 map) was the original market of the town. It includes St John’s Church […]