Introduction to the Street Survey of 1984, digitised and revised 2015 onwards The survey has been attempted to make a record of the main streets of Abergavenny. The town grew very gradually in size until the mid years of the 19th century, then it doubled in size. The Local History Society has concentrated on the […]
HIGH STREET based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. This runs from the medieval north gate to the crossing of Flannel Street and Market Street. The east side still shows burgage pattern, but almost certainly the “wedge” behind the west side which includes St John’s Church building, now used as a Masonic […]
GENERAL BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION TO FROGMORE STREET This information is based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. Numbers run from the medieval north gate, marked by the Abergavenny Local History Society Blue Plaque on number 2 Frogmore Street (HSBC Bank) to the junction with St Michael’s Road. Properties beyond the War Memorial […]
CROSS STREET Based on the original Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980. Today, the street extends from the Town Hall to the Swan, now converted from an inn to commercial use. At one time, the premises below the Coach & Horses Inn (once the Sun Inn and, much earlier, the site of the south gate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]