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Caldicot sits on the Gwent Levels near the Severn, its medieval castle restored in Victorian times and now the centrepiece of a country park with lawns and woodland walks. The station is in the town. Handy too for the Roman walls at Caerwent, a few miles east.

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Photo along the Wales Coast Path, an 870-mile long-distance path running from Chepstow to Queensferry, Wales.Highlight

Wales Coast Path

Long-distance path

Walk the outline of a whole nation — 870 miles of cliff, estuary and beach from Chepstow round to Queensferry.

0.1 km SW · spans 16 counties

Photo of Dewstow Gardens and Grottoes, a garden near Caerwent, Monmouthshire, south east Wales.Highlight

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Garden near Caerwent

Edwardian gardens near Caerwent with a rare underground network of tunnels, ferneries and grottoes, buried for decades and rediscovered in the 1990s.

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Photo of Caerwent, a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.Highlight

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Village

Village built within the surviving walls of the Roman town of Venta Silurum, with long stretches of Roman masonry still standing.

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Photo of the Wye Valley, a National Landscape in England and Wales.Highlight

Wye Valley

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A wooded river gorge winding along the Wales–England border, past Tintern Abbey down to Chepstow.

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Village

Gateway town to the Wye Valley, with a Norman castle above the river, surviving medieval town walls and the Port Wall gate.

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Photo along the Offa's Dyke Path, a 177-mile National Trail running from Chepstow to Prestatyn, Wales and England.Highlight

Offa's Dyke Path

National Trail

The length of the Welsh borders, tracking the eighth-century earthwork that once divided kingdoms.

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