Doubts about the future of Abergavenny Cattle Market have been raised following the granting of planning permission by Monmouthshire County Council for demolition of the cattle market, and its subsequent replacement by a supermarket, car park, and library.

Monmouth is administered by Monmouthshire County Council, one of the 22 unitary local authorities in Wales formed in 1996.

In 1928, Bevan won a seat on Monmouthshire County Council.

The restoration fund included over £ 100, 000 raised by local people, with a £ 90, 000 National Lottery grant and £ 5, 000 from Monmouthshire County Council which paid for repairs to the roof and stone walls.

It became the County Gaol for Monmouthshire in 1870, and after closing in 1922 reopened in 1939 as a borstal.

The town is administered by Monmouthshire County Council, and a town council.

It is administered as part of Monmouthshire County Council, and is within the Monmouth parliamentary constituency and Wales Assembly constituency.

Chepstow is administered by Monmouthshire County Council, one of the 22 unitary local authorities in Wales formed in 1996.

The centre is owned by Monmouthshire County Council.

* County of Monmouth ( the historic county of Monmouthshire )

Newport County draws its main support from the city of Newport but also the wider surrounding historic Monmouthshire area, as reflected in the original club name of Newport & Monmouth County A. F. C.

* Monmouthshire County Council, the local authority that since 1996 administers the principal area and previously the administrative county ( 1889 – 1974 )

Monmouthshire ( or ), also known as the County of Monmouth (; ), is one of thirteen ancient counties of Wales and a former administrative county.

This was turned down by Monmouthshire County Council.

* Monmouthshire County Cricket Club, played 1901 – 14 and 1921 – 34

Risca () is a town of approximately 11, 500 people in South Wales, within the Caerphilly County Borough and the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

At the County School she began to develop her interest in composition under the guidance of the music teacher Miss Rhyda Jones, and in 1923 she won the Morfydd Owen scholarship to Cardiff University ( University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire ) where she studied under Professor David Evans.

Originally, the school was a community school in Monmouthshire County Council but when county boundaries were revised in 1973, it became one of 46 comprehensive schools in Mid Glamorgan.

To this end, the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canals Regeneration Partnership was created as a collaborative effort between the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canals Trust, Torfaen County Borough Council, Newport City Council, Caerphilly County Borough Council, the Forestry Commission and British Waterways.

Until 2012 it provided the main administrative base for Monmouthshire County Council ( even though it was outside that administrative area ) and Gwent Police, and also some offices for Torfaen County Borough Council.

Following the Welsh Church Act 1914, the Church in Wales established the Diocese of Monmouth in 1921, and in 1949, Monmouthshire was included within the remit of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, an appointed precursor of the Welsh Office.

In 1998 Usk Town Council bought it from Monmouthshire council for £ 90, 000 and restoration began.

A Council for Wales and Monmouthshire was established in 1949 to monitor the effects of government policy.

Restoration of the old Monmouthshire Canal began in 1994, when Torfaen Borough Council raised Crown Bridge in Sebastopol, to give sufficient height for navigation again.

Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.

The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, which was founded in the early 1990s.

The issue of whether Monmouth should be considered as part of Wales for administrative purposes was finally clarified in law by the Local Government Act 1972, which incorporated Monmouthshire within Wales.

In addition, various organisations have been actively seeking out old perry pear trees and orchards and rediscovering lost varieties, many of which now exist only as single trees on isolated farms ; for example, the Welsh Cider Society recently rediscovered the old Monmouthshire varieties " Burgundy " and the " Potato Pear " as well as a number of further types unrecorded up to that point.

It is situated in the village of Tintern, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire, which forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England.

Most legislation for Wales was applied to it using the phrase " Wales and Monmouthshire ", and the issue of whether Monmouthshire should be considered as part of Wales for administrative purposes was finally clarified in law by the Local Government Act 1972 which incorporated it within Wales.

In Monmouthshire, the A40 has a grade separated junction with the A449, which continues as dual carriageway to Newport and the M4.

The University of Wales was founded in Wales in 1893 as a federal university with three foundation colleges: University College Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), which had been founded in 1872 and University College North Wales ( now Bangor University ) and University College South Wales and Monmouthshire ( now Cardiff University ) which were founded following the Aberdare Report in 1881.

Its responsibilities included Monmouthshire, which for some purposes had earlier been considered by some to lie within England.

The territory which became Monmouthshire was part of the Welsh kingdoms of Gwent and Glywysing and later, after the Norman conquest of southern Wales, of the Welsh Marches.

It is traditionally within the county of Glamorgan, on the border with Monmouthshire and it is the largest town in the county borough of Caerphilly, which since 2003 has formed part of the lieutenancy area of Gwent.

The term “ The Three Castles ” is used to collectively describe White Castle, Skenfrith Castle and Grosmont Castle, all of which are located in the Monnow Valley in south Wales in modern-day Monmouthshire.

The Monmouthshire estates, which he had obtained by reversion from Cromwell, were allowed to remain in his possession, though they should strictly have reverted to his father ; the latter wrote to Lord Clarendon that his son was intriguing against him.

As President of the South Wales Liberal Federation from 1894-7, Thomas believed that the southern counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, which together contained over half the Welsh population, would suffer under the proposed scheme for a single national federation.

Hall ( 1802 – 1867, after whom " Big Ben " is said to have been named, as he was Commissioner of Works in 1855 when it was built ), was for some years Member of Parliament for Monmouth, but transferred to a London seat just prior to the Newport Rising which brought with it a turbulent time in Monmouthshire.

Addison was about 37 years old, and a private in the 43rd ( Monmouthshire ) Regiment of Foot ( later The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry ), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the incident for which he was awarded the VC took place on 2 January 1859 near Kurrereah, India.

As its name suggests, Welsh Bicknor has close ties with Wales, having been a detached parish of Monmouthshire, although adjacent to English Bicknor and Lydbrook, which are part of Gloucestershire.

Iestyn ap Gwrgant ( or Jestyn ap Gwrgant ) () ( c. 1045 – 1093 ) was the last ruler of the Welsh kingdom of Morgannwg, which encompassed the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.

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.

Major structures for which he was responsible include the fourteen locks on the Monmouthshire Canal at Rogerstone, the embankment at Gilwern which enables the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal to cross the River Clydach and a four-arched stone-built aqueduct which carries the same canal over the River Usk at Brynich.