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Caer-Went in Monmouth County England History and GeographyCAER-WENT, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of CALDICOTT, county of MONMOUTH, 5½ miles (W.S.W.) from Chepstow, containing, with the hamlet of Crick, 394 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united with the vicarage of Mathern, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaff, rated in the king's books at £7. 11. 8., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St. Stephen. This place, now an inconsiderable village, was anciently a Roman station, the Venta Silurum of Antoninus' Itinerary, and is supposed to have been the site of the capital city of the Britons in Siluria: it is still partially environed by the original Roman walls, enclosing an area of about a mile in circumference: the turn-pike-road to Newport, which is here upon part of the Roman road Akeman-street, passes through the centre, where formerly stood the eastern and western gates. Coins, fragments of columns, statues, sepulchral stones, and tesselated pavements belonging to that people, have been discovered: some of the latter were very curious and beautiful. At a small distance stand the magnificent ruins of Caldicott castle, formerly in possession of the Bohuns, earls of Hereford: it is still surrounded by a moat: the side, fronting the village is flanked by a large round tower, and at the northern angle is a circular tower, on a mound of earth, evidently the keep, encircled by a ditch: another circular dilapidated tower stands at the southern angle. The principal entrance consists of a fine arched gateway, flanked by massive turrets. Within are the remains of several apartments, particularly the baronial hall; and opposite to the grand gateway is another entrance, through a fine hexagonal tower, with a machicolated roof. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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