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Also known as Abergwenffrwd, Gwenffrwd

Whitebrook () is a small village in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, United Kingdom. It is located four miles south east of Monmouth in the Wye Valley.

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hamlet
Official name
Abergwenffrwd
Located in
Monmouthshire
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SO533065
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Whitebrook
historic county
Monmouthshire
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Whitebrook () is a small village in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, United Kingdom. It is located four miles south east of Monmouth in the Wye Valley.

== History and amenities == thumb|left|Holy Trinity Church Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the Whitebrook valley - like the Angiddy valley at Tintern a few miles to the south - was a centre of intensive water-powered industry. A branch of Tintern wireworks was established here in about 1606, and wire working continued to be the main industry of the valley until about 1720. By about 1760, paper mills had taken over, and much of the housing in the valley was built for millworkers around that time. Some of the paper was made from imported esparto grass, brought in via the quay at nearby Llandogo.

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