Chepstow (Welsh language: Cas-gwent) is a border town straddling a Monmouthshire—Gloucestershire border, situated at a confluence of the River Wye and River Severn on the Severn's west bank. These are notable for its castle and racecourse, which hosts the Welsh Grand National.

Chepstow sits upriver of the confluence of the River Wye and River Severn. There has been a payout on the places since the early middle ages. Fallowing a Norman Invasion it was identified as an ideal places for the castle, as it non sole controlled the crossing point on the River Wye, but as well because the steep limestone gorge & castle dingle afforded an fantabulous location for a castle. William the Conqueror ordered its construction in 1067, & it was designed per master castle builder of the instance, William FitzOsborne. A speed sustaining which William the Conqueror committed to the creation of a castle around Chepstow is testament to its strategical importance. At a period, a kingdoms within a area were independent of a English crown & the castle in Chepstow provided how else to suppress the Welsh from attacking Gloucestershire. Offas Dyke, which begins on the east bank of the Wye and diarrhea all the way to the Irish Sea in north Wales was also built (albeit a bit earliest) to service a equivalent purpose.

In the middle ages Chepstow was the big port in Wales, this distinction was lost to the cities of Cardiff, Newport and Swansea during a industrial revolution, when it were additional suitable for treating a exportation of coal & steel from either the Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire valleys. A mediæval town wall (locally referred to as a larboard wall) however stands, & particularly full sections may be seen at a castle dingle cark park, & touching a A48 road.

Chepstow is placed touching a old Severn Bridge which has the 2nd yearn span of any bridge in the UK. the town has the recently built a PFI funded community hospital and 2 fresh housing estates, likewise when investing complete £1 milliin on redevoping a town's commercial centre which has found considerable local criticism due to the high numbers.

There are the total of churches around Chepstow, including the kind of non-nonconforming demoninations. A virtually all important one is a Priory Church placed at the bottom of the town. It, prefer a castle, is Norman.

Nearby come a Royal Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley.

For the history of the Salvation Army around Chepstow view Chepstow Salvation Army.

Chepstow is twinned with Cormeilles, France.

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