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Abergavenny (), meaning Mouth of the River Gavenny, is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Abergavenny is promoted as the " Gateway to Wales ".
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.
Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).
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 Cricket Club is one of the oldest in the country and celebrated the 175th anniversary of its foundation in 2009.
Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.
Today the market is leased and operated by Abergavenny Market Auctioneers Ltd., who hold regular livestock auctions on the site.
Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.
* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.
* In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Abergavenny is mentioned by Stan Shunpike, the conductor of the Knight Bus when the bus takes a detour there to drop off a passenger.
* Malcolm Nash the cricketer famous for bowling to Gary Sobers who hit six sixes off one Nash over ( 36 runs ) is from Abergavenny.
* Abergavenny Castle is seized by the Welsh.
It is about southwest of Hereford, just south of the A465 road to Abergavenny, and about from the border with Wales.
The Abergavenny Arms is a public house that has run in the village for a very long time under many managements.
It is 486 m high and lies just outside Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, about 10 miles from the English border.
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 '.

Abergavenny and home
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.
Lady Enniskillen, born Mary Cicely Nevill of the Marquesses of Abergavenny, discovered the fire, which broke out during one of her husband's rare absences from home.

Abergavenny and Thursdays
* Biggest League of Wales win: 6-0 v. Abergavenny Thursdays in 1993.
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.
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 '.
In the course of five seasons, Abergavenny Thursdays suffered four relegations and conceded 675 league goals.
Abergavenny Thursdays ended the 2004-05 Gwent County League Division Three campaign in fifth place, and finished tenth the following season ; although the 2005-06 season was seen as a disappointment as Thursdays had led the table in the autumn, but finished much lower in the final table due to a dismal second half of the season.
* Abergavenny Thursdays website
lt: Abergavenny Thursdays FC
* Biggest League of Wales win: 9-0 v Abergavenny Thursdays in 1993 and v Haverfordwest County in 1994.
* 1951-Cwmparc ( Western Division ) / Abergavenny Thursdays ( Eastern Division )
* Abergavenny Thursdays F. C., a Welsh football club

Abergavenny and .
Abergavenny grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny.
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.
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 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 1639 Abergavenny received a charter of incorporation under the title of bailiff and burgesses.
In consequence of this clause Abergavenny on various occasions shared in the election, the last instance being in 1685.
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.

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