Abergavenny Cricket Club play at Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road, and Glamorgan CCC also play some of their games here.

Abergavenny Cricket Club is one of the oldest in the country and celebrated the 175th anniversary of its foundation in 2009.

Abergavenny Hockey Club, formed in 1897, currently compete in the Davis Woods hockey league and play at the Old Hereford Road ground.

Abergavenny Thursdays Football Club is a Welsh football team, a founder member of the League of Wales, but now playing in the Gwent County League Division 3.

Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.

It is also home to the Abergavenny Welsh society, Cymreigyddion y Fenni, and the local Abergavenny Eisteddfod.

Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.

: See also: Category: People from Abergavenny

One was also awarded for the same action to Robert Jones ( VC ), born at Clytha between Abergavenny and Raglan.

During the later Roman period, between the 2nd and late 4th centuries, it appears to have been a centre for iron working, using the local iron ores and charcoal also worked at nearby Gobannium ( Abergavenny ) and Ariconium ( near Ross-on-Wye ).

William de Braose, ( or William de Briouze ), 4th Lord of Bramber ( 1144 / 1153 – 9 August 1211 ), court favourite of King John of England, at the peak of his power, was also Lord of Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, Glamorgan, Skenfrith, Briouze in Normandy, Grosmont, and White Castle.

It can also lead to confusion with the village and parish, Llanelly, which is in south-east Wales near Abergavenny.

Reginald became Lord of Brecon, Abergavenny, Builth and held other Marcher Lordships but was also very much a vassal of the Welsh leader Llewelyn Fawr, Prince of Gwynedd who became his father-in-law in 1215 when Reginald married Llywelyn's daughter, Gwladus Ddu.

Wynebald also had a holding at Caerleon, above which, also on the River Usk, his brother Hamelin de Ballon founded the extensive marcher lordship of Abergavenny, and built the castle there.

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.

The Monmouthshire Canal Company also asked him to survey the southern section of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, with a view to finding a high level route which would result in most of the canal being lock-free.

There is also a Great Taste Great Taste Awards Award winning pale ale named after this hill and produced in the local brewery in Abergavenny.

Aside from his army and political career, Lord Abergavenny was also: a Director of Massey-Ferguson between 1955 and 1985 ; a Director of Lloyds Bank between 1962 and 1985 ; Chairman of Lloyds Bank South-East Regional Board between 1962 and 1985 and a Director of Whitbread Investment.

The college was founded in 1973 as the main provider of sixth form education in Hereford and the surrounding area and also attracts students from Abergavenny to Worcester and Brecon.

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).

Newport ’ s sale will be held at Abergavenny Cattle Market on every Wednesday.

Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.

* One of the eleven Victoria Cross gallantry medals awarded at Rorke's Drift was awarded to John Fielding from Abergavenny.

* Marina and the Diamonds ( born Marina Lambrini Diamandis ), singer-songwriter who was born and brought up in Abergavenny until she moved to London at the age of eighteen.

In 2006, Adrien Jones, the president of the Owain Glyndŵr Society, said, " Four years ago we visited a direct descendant of Glyndŵr ( Sir John Scudamore ), at Kentchurch Court, near Abergavenny.

* The Massacre of Abergavenny ends with several Welsh noblemen dead at the orders of William de Braose.

* William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber ( 1140 / 1150 – 1211 ) infamous for the Christmas Day Massacre of Welsh Princes at Abergavenny Castle in 1175

King Henry withdrew his favour from the family after William's son organised the murder of Seisyll ap Dyfnwal and other Welsh princes at Abergavenny in 1176.

After having invited the Welsh leaders to a Christmas feast at Abergavenny Castle under the pretence of peace and the start of a new era at the end of the year ( a traditional time for settling outstanding differences amongst the Welsh ), he had them murdered by his men.

The section between Abergavenny and Brecon has one of the highest points of the A40 which is above sea level and is located at Bwlch, which is Welsh for ' mountain pass '.

He was born on 24 April 1831, the third son and sixth child of Commander William Henry Nares, a British naval officer, and Elizabeth Rebecca Gould, at Llansenseld, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire.

A new manager and assistant were appointed and Abergavenny Thursdays started the new campaign on time, though losing 1-0 at home to Bangor City in their first match.

White Castle was frequently visited and, apparently, painted by German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess during the period when he was held in Maindiff Court Military Hospital at Abergavenny, between 1942 and his trial in 1945.

Pym was born at Penpergwm Lodge, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire.

* BBC, South East Wales – Feature on Abergavenny

* the seven hills of Abergavenny, South Wales, United Kingdom

The River Monnow valley was an important route between Hereford and South Wales in medieval times, due to its position as an area of relatively open land, which provided a break between the river cliffs of the Wye Valley to the east, and the hills around Abergavenny to the west.

and Rees, W., “ The Lordships of Abergavenny, Grosmont, Skenfrith and White Castle: Accounts of the Ministers for the year 1256-57 ”, South Wales and Monmouth Record Society Publications, 2 ( 1953 ), pp. 68 – 125 ; 3 ( 1954 ), pp. 22 – 47

Whilst some of the migrants left, many settled and established in the South Wales valleys between Swansea and Abergavenny, English speaking communities with a unique identity.

Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales.

Reception Station, Abergavenny, South Wales where he remained for the duration of the hostilities.

D7033 piloting GWR 4073 Class | Abergavenny Castle on a South Wales to London service in 1962