The hundred of Abergavenny is a division of the traditional county of Monmouthshire. It is sitauted in the northern part of the county and is bounded on the north by Herefordshire; on the east by the hundreds of Skenfrith, Raglan, and Usk; on the south by Wentloog hundred; and on the west by Wentloog and Brecknockshire. A hundred is an administrative division, frequently used in Europe and New England, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller geographical units. ... Wales has thirteen traditional counties (or vice counties). ... Monmouthshire (Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is both a principal area and a traditional county in south-east Wales. ... Herefordshire is a traditional and ceremonial county and unitary district in the West Midlands region of England in the United Kingdom. ... Brecknockshire, also known as Breconshire or, in Welsh, as Sir Frycheiniog is an inland traditional county of Wales, bounded N. by Radnorshire, E. by Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, S. by Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, and W. by Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. ...
This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. ... Abersychan is an urban district in Wales, in the northern parliamentary division of Torfaen near to Newport. ... Abertillery (Welsh Abertyleri) is a town in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent and the traditional county of Monmouthshire in southern Wales, 16 miles north-west of Newport, originally on the Great Western Railway. ... Llanfoist is a village in Monmouthshire, Wales at grid reference SO287130, near Abergavenny. ... Trevethin is an area in south-east Wales. ...
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