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    Caerwent (Welsh: Caer-went) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located about five miles west of Chepstow and 11 miles east of Newport...
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    Caerwent Training Area is a British military installation at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Wales. The large military site is situated north of the A48 road...
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  • Caerwent (20 February 1985 – after 2000) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Despite contesting only two races as a juvenile he was rated the...
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  • Caerwent was built at Rotherhithe and launched in 1799. She was a West Indiaman that the French captured in 1803 and the British Royal Navy recaptured...
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    the wood" - that is, the post-Roman cantref of Gwent Is Coed, centred on Caerwent about 3 miles away. An alternative derivation is from Porth Ysgewydd, the...
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    Roman Britain (Britannia). Today it consists of remains in the village of Caerwent in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. Much of it has been archaeologically...
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  • Party, he was a member of Caerwent community council, serving as its chairman in 1991. He was instrumental in setting up Caerwent Historic Trust, becoming...
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    Usk and Caerwent as a boy; all of these places had been settled by the Romans. He wrote that "strange relics" were frequently found at Caerwent from the...
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  • three inscriptions in Roman Britain. He is twice invoked on dedications at Caerwent: one stone is the base of a statue of which only a pair of human feet and...
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    Romanisation. The only town in Wales founded by the Romans, Caerwent, is in south east Wales. Both Caerwent and Carmarthen, also in southern Wales, became Roman...
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  • like the Gauls or the Spaniards. The Iron Age hillfort at Llanmelin near Caerwent has sometimes been suggested as a pre-Roman tribal centre. But some archaeologists[who...
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  • Production began in June, and filming took place in London, Manchester, Caerwent, Liverpool, and Los Angeles. Several different techniques were used by...
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    of Gwent). She was buried in the monastery at Caerwent, now the parish church of St. Stephen at Caerwent, by Saint Tathan to whom the bandits had confessed...
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  • the Isle of Man and in Wales at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan and at Caerwent and other areas of Monmouthshire. Other scenes were at Squamish, British...
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    (Aquae Arnemetiae) Caerleon (Isca Augusta) C Caernarfon (Segontium) C Caerwent (Venta Silurum) C Caister-on-Sea C Canterbury (Durovernum Cantiacorum)...
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    could still be seen; this is a likely reference to the Roman ruins at Caerwent. In 1542, John Leland reported that the locals around Cadbury Castle (formerly...
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    factory for the Royal Navy, The Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, opened at Caerwent in Wales. A very large Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Bishopton...
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  • Clifton Antiquarian Club, supervisor of the excavations undertaken by the Caerwent Exploration Fund, and author of "Richard Ameryk and the name America."...
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    The Church of St Stephen and St Tathan, Caerwent, Monmouthshire, is a parish church with datable origins to the 13th century. It is believed to be one...
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    change in the Brythonic languages from v to gu. The town itself became Caerwent, "Fort Venta". According to one Old Welsh genealogy[which?], the founder...
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    adjacent site to be established as the Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent. Water was also supplied for paper manufacture to a mill at Sudbrook; this...
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  • at the Curragh and with Reid riding the stable's more fancied contender Caerwent, he was partnered by Declan Gillespie. The Minstrel Stakes winner Executive...
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    capital of the Demetae tribe. The only town in Wales founded by the Romans, Caerwent, is in South Wales. Wales was a rich source of mineral wealth, and the...
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  • began on June 28, 2010 in the United Kingdom, with locations in London, Caerwent, Manchester and Liverpool. The film premiered on July 19, 2011, at the...
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  • Camboglanna on Hadrian's Wall. Campus Elleti in Glamorgan. Caerwent. Llanmelin hill fort near Caerwent. Camelford, Cornwall. Camaret, Brittany, France. Saltwell...
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    south-east Wales. It is centred 2 miles north of Magor, and 3 miles west of Caerwent. The A48 Newport to Chepstow road passes close by to the north. The church...
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  • 5th-century saint of South Wales, and founder of a monastic school at Caerwent where he instructed many of the leading figures of the early Welsh church...
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  • The deity Vellaunus is known from two inscriptions. The first, found at Caerwent, is the base of a state recording the dedication of the statue to: [DEO]...
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  • Temenos area in the Romano-British temple complex of the Roman town of Caerwent in Wales The concept of temenos arose in classical antiquity as an area...
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    Romance of King Yder, where his lover is Queen Guenloie of Carvain (possibly Caerwent in Wales). Chrétien de Troyes tells another version of Guinevere's abduction...
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