* Owen Sheers, the poet, grew up in Abergavenny.

* Oliver Thornton, West End actor-currently starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( musical ), was born and grew up in Abergavenny.

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

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.

* Abergavenny town walls

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.

The club was founded in 1927 in Abergavenny ( though several defunct clubs had existed since the mid 19th century ) and was highly successful as recently as the early 1990s, but suffered an appalling decline in the following ten years.

Thursday was historically half-day closing in Abergavenny ( when shops and businesses closed early ) thus permitting the team, composed of apprentices, shops boys and local workers to leave work and attend games or training.

By 1805, a joint venture between the Tredegar Iron Company and the Monmouthshire Canal resulted in the early development of what became the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, connecting Tredegar to Newport Docks through of tramway.

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.

The title Baron Bergavenny ( or Abergavenny ) was created several times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Great Britain, all but the first being baronies created by error.

In 1639 Abergavenny received a charter of incorporation under the title of bailiff and burgesses.

The Abergavenny Arms is a public house that has run in the village for a very long time under many managements.

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.

Opened in June 1857 for the Taff Vale Extension to the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway and closed in 1964 under the Beeching Axe, at 200 feet high and 1650 feet in length in two spans ( 1066 feet and 584 feet ) it remained the highest railway viaduct in Great Britain throughout its working life.

He had not gone far when on 15 April he was ambushed and killed by the men of Gwent under Iorwerth ab Owain and his brother Morgan, grandsons of Caradog ap Gruffydd, in a woody tract called " the ill-way of Coed Grano ", near Llanthony Abbey, north of Abergavenny .. Today the spot is marked by the ' garreg dial ' ( the stone of revenge ).

The Monmouthshire Company, which had become the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1845, bought out the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal Company in 1865, but the move came too late, and the Monmouthshire Canal gradually closed, while the Brecon line was retained as a water feeder.

William III de Cantilupe ( died 25 September 1254 ) ( anciently Cantelow, Cantelou, Canteloupe, etc, Latinised to de Cantilupo ) was lord of Abergavenny in right of his wife, Eve de Braose, of the de Braose dynasty of Welsh Marcher Lords, who inherited the tenancy.

As part of his strategy for dealing with the Marcher Lords, Llywelyn married his eldest son, Dafydd, to Isabella, the daughter of William de Braose, a powerful lord in Brecon, Builth and Abergavenny.

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

Owain Glyndŵr attacked Abergavenny in 1404.

In 1404 Abergavenny was declared its own nation by Ieuan ab Owain Glyndŵr, illegitimate son of Owain Glyndŵr.

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

In consequence of this clause Abergavenny on various occasions shared in the election, the last instance being in 1685.

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

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

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

He married the heiress of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, whose father had inherited the castle and estate of Abergavenny, and was summoned in 1392 to parliament as Lord Bergavenny.

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

Abergavenny railway station opened 2 January 1854 and is on the Welsh Marches Line.

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

Abergavenny is the home of Abergavenny Thursdays F. C., which was formed in 1927, and is currently a member of the Gwent County League Division 3.