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Latitude: 51.6706 / 51°40'14"N
Longitude: -2.7017 / 2°42'6"W
OS Eastings: 351570
OS Northings: 197098
OS Grid: ST515970
Mapcode National: GBR JL.5TB3
Mapcode Global: VH87M.482P
Plus Code: 9C3VM7CX+68
Entry Name: Village Pound
Listing Date: 13 December 1991
Last Amended: 14 February 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2861
Building Class: Miscellaneous
ID on this website: 300002861
Location: At the north end of the village, set in the slope at the side of the road and almost opposite Bwythyn y Ffynnon.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Chepstow
Community: St. Arvans
Community: St. Arvans
Built-Up Area: St Arvans
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Animal pound
The village pound was recorded in the C17, including a reference to repairs in 1697; it served as an enclosure for stray animals. Some later alterations.
Pound contructed of sandstone rubble walls around three sides of the enclosure; approximately 1.25m to 1.5m high on inner side; rounded coping to inner side. Front wall adjoins garden wall to uphill end and includes drain outlet to south west corner. The pound is entered from the south east.
Listed for historical interest as a surviving village pound and for its position at the upper boundary of a well-preserved example of a linear village. It is now a fairly rare survival in so complete a state.
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