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ShirenewtonDrenewydd Gelli-farch

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Shirenewton is a small hill village west of Chepstow, old stone cottages set around a green that slopes down to the medieval church. Quiet walking country on the wooded ridges between the Wye and the Usk, with Wentwood forest a short way to the north.

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

Wye Valley

National Landscape near Monmouth

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

0.8 km NE

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

Dewstow Gardens and Grottoes

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.

4.9 km S

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.

5 km SE · spans 16 counties

Photo of Giant's Cave, a cave near St Arvans in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, south east Wales.Highlight

Giant's Cave

Cave near St Arvans

A rock-cut cave and cliff-edge viewing platform above the Wye, part of the 18th-century Piercefield picturesque walks, named for a lost statue of a boulder-hurling giant.

5.2 km NE

Photo of Chepstow Castle, a ruined castle in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, south east Wales.Highlight

Chepstow Castle

Castle near Chepstow

Britain's oldest stone castle above the Wye.

5.4 km E

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

Chepstow

Village

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

5.7 km E · Monmouthshire