you can find not only the oldest gateway into Wales, but the oldest of its kind anywhere in Europe. Chepstow is famed for being Britain's first stone-built castle. It was started months after the ...

Locals have said, according to a councillor, that they feel they are living in 'lawless conditions' in the town which would ...

JMW Turner painted the watercolour of Chepstow Castle overlooking the River Wye in 1794 when he was 19 years old. Thought to have been created on the artist's first tour of south Wales ...

Just seven parking tickets were issued on high street where drivers have been parking “when and where they want” all last ...

Within a year, the Normans were building a castle at Chepstow and had begun their piecemeal conquest of Wales, a process which took well over 200 years. The conquest started with a series of ...

One example of these castles is Chepstow Castle. But the leaders of the small kingdoms that existed in Wales at the time had different plans, namely, to fight the Normans. In one battle ...

And if you walk behind one of the footpaths near the castle ... culture in this part of Wales, as there was so much I didn’t know about the area. In the past, Chepstow was an essential port ...

Keep reading to learn about 16 beautiful castles in Wales to inspire your next trip, some of which have even made it onto television and into movies. Thought to have been constructed by the ...