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Llanrothal

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Llanrothal Church geograph.org.uk 49085
Llanrothal Church geograph.org.uk 49085

Llanrothal is a small village and historical parish in Herefordshire, England in the Monnow Valley, on the border with Monmouthshire, Wales. The River Monnow flows near here along the border. The village is located 5 miles by road northwest of Monmouth. It contains a 12th-century church, St John the Baptist's which stands in a remote position close to the England–Wales border overlooking the river.Llanrothal Court, in the village, is an early 14th-century hall house, with cross-wings added in the 15th or 16th century and further additions from the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is a Grade II listed building.Another historically important building in the village is The Cwm. Originally a shooting box, and subsequently a farmhouse, it is also Grade II listed, together with the terrace in front of the house, and the retaining wall to the side, which contains rare bee boles. The present building, dating from about the 1830s, is on site of and incorporates part of a demolished 17th-century house that was a Jesuit province and college.

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