Abergavenny (), meaning Mouth of the River Gavenny, is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales.

Abergavenny grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny.

They were able to open the gate and allow a much larger party who set fire to the town and plundered its churches and homes leaving Abergavenny Castle intact.

In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

During September the town holds the Abergavenny Food Festival.

Regular bus services run between the town and Hereford, Ross-on-Wye, Coleford, Chepstow, Newport and Abergavenny.

Their nickname is either ' The Thursdays ', or either ' The Butchers ' ( due to Abergavenny's famous cattle market and resultant meat markets ) or ' The Pennies ', as the ground is situated in a part of the town known as Pen-y-pound and cockney rhyming slang for a penny is ' an Abergavenny '.

The castle was largely destroyed in the early 15th century by Owain Glyndŵr's forces who also attacked and burned Abergavenny town and other settlements in the area.

* Abergavenny, a market town in Wales

This had been opened in 1816 as part of the Hay Railway, a tram-road worked by horses connecting the town of Hay with the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal at Brecon.

Neither Monmouth town nor its castle were attacked during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr, although nearby Abergavenny and Grosmont were burned down during the uprising, and the town suffered from the devastation in surrounding areas.

Abergavenny is a market town in Monmouthshire in south east Wales, with a castle.

It takes its name from the Welsh language name of Abergavenny, a market town in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.

Blorenge overlooks the market town of Abergavenny and the villages of Llanfoist and Govilon in the Usk Valley to the north.

Notable features in Crickhowell include the seventeenth-century stone bridge over the River Usk with its odd arches ( twelve on one side, thirteen on the other ) and its seat built into the walls, the 14th-century parish church of St Edmund, and the ruins of Crickhowell Castle on the green " tump " beside the A40 Brecon to Abergavenny road.

Some fragmentary walls of large, well-dressed blocks near this latter town indicate the early prosperity of Ambracia.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

In 1250, with the coming to power of the Mamluks under Rukn al-Din Baibars, tolerance of Christianity declined ; the clergies left the city, and in 1263 the town walls were demolished.

This was often a historic form, the effect of successive growth over long time with concentric traces of town walls and citadels.

Every city expansion would imply a new circle ( canals together with town walls ).

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Some councils, like that at Stroud, Gloucestershire and Loerrach provide approved areas round the town where graffiti artists can showcase their talents, including underpasses, car parks and walls that might otherwise prove a target for the ' spray and run.

The town, he recounts, was also known for an unusual spring rising on Beacon Hill ( a promontory to the north-east of the town ), which " petrified " clay, allowing it to be used to pave Harwich's streets and build its walls.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

These walls are highlighted every summer ( July and August ) evening in a light show that tells the history of the town.

The exact nature of the walls of a medieval town or city would depend on the resources available for building them, the nature of the terrain and the perceived threat.

The fortress incorporates some of the pre-existing southern walls, the pre-existing structures including the keep of Santo Martini, the San Giovanni tower and an ancient basilica which now serves as the fortress chapel. Though the town itself was eventually conquered, the fortress itself was never taken, an admirable feat, considering the size of the Sienese and Florentine forces that besieged Montalcino at varying intervals.

Suburban settlements developed around the city walls, on the river islands and on the right bank, with some ( Ostrów Tumski, Śródka, Chwaliszewo, Ostrówek ) obtaining their own town charters.

The first siege equipment is known from Egyptian tomb reliefs of the 24th century BC, showing Egyptian soldiers storming Canaanite town walls on wheeled siege ladders.

In response to these challenges bishop Cresconio, in the mid 11th century, fortified the entire town, building walls and defensive towers.

Only the southern tip of a large town has been uncovered, yet it has revealed complexes of multi-level buildings, streets, and squares with remains of walls standing as high as eight metres, all entombed in the solidified ash of the famous eruption of Thera.

Its streets, squares, and walls were preserved in the layers of ejecta, sometimes as tall as eight metres, and indicating this was a major town.

Oxford was a secure town, protected by walls and the river Isis, but Stephen led a sudden attack across the river, leading the charge and swimming part of the way.

About 954 the monastery and buildings were surrounded by a wall to protect the abbey, and the town grew up around these walls.

At the beginning of the Eighty Years ' War, the absence of city walls proved disastrous, as it allowed Spanish troops easily to occupy the town.