Crested China 10 - Monmouth/Trefynwy

This item from the collection is a recent acquisition as it was found on holiday in Suffolk at the opposite end of the UK to where this is! It's also appropriate as in my continuing research on the story I had an appointment with one of our teachers after school and she happens to be Welsh as well as a teacher of French and German. I did not have much time to go out and get a picture.

Monmouth is the old County Town of Monmouthshire, a county that was created along with all the other pre-1974 ones in Wales by Henry VIII between 1536 and 1542. After 1974 it became part of Gwent and is now back as Monmouthshire. As a county, it's the only part of Wales that I've ever visited - but then only Chepstow and Tintern Abbey! Monmouth is famous for it's fortified gate bridge built in 1272 with the gate added at the end of the 13th Century into the early 14th. As far as I know, it's the only one like it in the UK.