Monmouth
About Monmouth
Monmouth is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated on where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, two miles from the Wales–England border. The population in the 2011 census was 10,508, rising from 8,877 in 2001. Monmouth was the county town of historic Monmouthshire, although Abergavenny is the largest settlement and Monmouthshire County Council has its main offices at Rhadyr, just outside Usk. Monmouth is in the UK Parliament constituency of Monmouthshire and the Senedd constituency of Monmouth.
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The first person to write about Bladud was Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. He wrote that Bladud died when he constructed some wings for himself and flew into a wall.
from No Such Thing As Tiddlywinks In The Wild West, 2022-02-25 at 00:04:34 · read transcript
Other times Monmouth came up
Because they also worked out that people were living there for ages, and then they stopped living there, and then they came back later, and they stopped living there about the same time as the stones left. It could be that they just decided to move to Salisbury and took their big old stones with them. The baggage allowance must have been massive in the olden days. There's also another theory by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the 12th century author. He says that Stonehenge was originally built in Ireland by a group of giants from Africa. By a group of who?
No Such Thing as an Ice Cream at Stonehenge, 2024-09-26 · listen
It could be that they just decided to move to Salisbury and took their big old stones with them. The baggage allowance must have been massive in the olden days. There's also another theory by Jeffrey of Monmouth, the 12th century author, he says that Stonehenge was originally built in Ireland by a group of giants from Africa. By a group of who? A group of giants from Africa.
550: No Such Thing as an Ice Cream at Stonehenge, 2024-09-26 · listen
Exactly. There have been moments in the UK where people have been arrested for smuggling Bibles, isn't there? William Tyndall and his mate who was called Monmouth, but I can't remember his name, but Humphrey Monmouth.
No Such Thing As Doing A Solzhenitsyn, 2026-03-26 · listen
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