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Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain (1862)

Howitt, William, 1792-1879 · London : A.W. Bennett · leaf 78

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lle and town-walls of Conway, whichwere built in the eleventh. You obferve thefe great roandbattlemented towers, with their ftraight battlemented walls. CHEPSTOW CASTLE. 65 ftretching from one tower to the other. I never fawConway, replied my friend ; that is interefting. But we need not repeat all… … CHEPSTOW CASTLE. fl:ru£lure to the Romans, fimply becaufe a few Roman bricksare vifible in the walls of what is called the chapel. It mayhave been fo ; but the Britons at leaft had a caftle here, whichthey called Caftell Gwent, or Cafgwent, as the town was calledby the Saxons Chepeftowe, or place…

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