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Dingestow
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Dingestow (pronounced , ) is a small village in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located south-west of Monmouth and approximately the same distance north-east of Raglan in rural Monmouthshire. The River Trothy passes through the village.
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- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Dingestow
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Mitchel Troy
- Image
- St Dingad's Church, Dingestow - geograph.org.uk - 153911.jpg
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- P8168
- Siebeneich
- OS grid reference
- SO457102
- Commons category
- Dingestow
- historic county
- Monmouthshire
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Dingestow (pronounced , ) is a small village in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located south-west of Monmouth and approximately the same distance north-east of Raglan in rural Monmouthshire. The River Trothy passes through the village.
==History== The village was once the site of a Norman motte and bailey sited to control this part of the Welsh Marches by the incoming Marcher Lords.It was later replaced by a larger, stone-built one, the site of which is the large rectangular mound to the west of the church. This was under construction in 1182 by Ranulf Poer, Sheriff of Herefordshire, when it was attacked by Hywel ap Iorwerth, the Welsh lord of Caerleon, as part of his retaliation for the murder of Seisyll ap Dyfnwal at Abergavenny Castle on Christmas Day in 1175 by William de Braose. The sheriff himself was killed in the action.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dingestow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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