:Monnow Street
{{Short description|Street in Monmouth, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}
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Monmoth Street
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Monnow Street is the main shopping street of Monmouth, south east Wales. It runs for about 500 yards in a south-westerly direction from Agincourt Square to the Monnow Bridge, which crosses the River Monnow.
History and buildings
File:Old map of Monmouth, Wales.jpg's town map of 1610, showing "Monmoth Street" (marked C)]]
The road is thought to have existed at least from Roman times.Keith Kissack, The Lordship, Parish and Borough of Monmouth, Lapridge Publications, 1996, {{ISBN|1-899290-03-6}}, p.14 In the Middle Ages it was a typical market street, known as the "Great Causey",Kissack, The Lordship, Parish and Borough of Monmouth, p.25 with gates at either end and a wider area in the middle for the trading of livestock and the erection of market stalls.Keith Kissack, Monmouth and its Buildings, Logaston Press, 2003, {{ISBN|1-904396-01-1}}. p.34 The market was later concentrated at the northern end of the road (now Agincourt Square), and the road itself became known as Monmouth Street.
Archaeological investigations at properties in the street, led by the Monmouth Archaeological Society, have revealed both Roman and Norman remains, as well as evidence of mediaeval iron working.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncjpo7wATAMC&dq=%22Monnow+Street%22&pg=PA60 David Hunter, Offa's Dyke Path: A Journey Through the Border Country of England and Wales, Cicerone Press, 2011], {{ISBN|185284549X}}, p.60 The street is described by architectural historian John Newman as a "pleasingly continuous array of C18 and early C19 shops and houses, in the main modestly two-storeyed, with several Victorian interventions".John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire, Penguin Books, 2000, {{ISBN|0-14-071053-1}}, p.409
Notable buildings include Cornwall House, The Vine Tree and the Robin Hood Inn.
Gallery
File:Monnow street showing a procession after WW1.jpg|Monnow Street in July 1919, showing a procession of servicemen and civilians to celebrate peace after the First World War
File:1947 flood in Monnow st..jpg|1947 flood in Monnow Street
File:Goat Master.jpg|Goat Master with mascot in Monnow Street during the Olympic torch procession in 2012
References
{{Commons category|Monnow Street}}
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{{Streets in Monmouth}}