Gaerllwyd | |
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Gaerllwyd Baptist Chapel | |
Location within
Monmouthshire | |
Principal area | |
Preserved county | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | USK |
Postcode district | NP |
Police | Gwent |
Fire | South Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
UK Parliament | |
Gaerllwyd is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom.
Gaerllwyd is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south east of Usk and 7 miles (11 km) north west of Chepstow on the B4235 road.
Gaerllwyd is set in a very rural agricultural area in the heart of Monmouthshire. The village has a Baptist chapel, situated on the Gaerllwyd Crossroads, which is still in regular religious use. Near the chapel is a Neolithic burial chamber, or cromlech dated to around 4,000 BC. It is made up of a capstone which would have had three upright stone supports. [1] The outer cairn has been removed by road construction and stone robbing, although archaeologists are uncertain whether a covering mound would ever have been in place. [2] To the south there are some Early Bronze Age monuments including two stone circles, a standing stone and a round barrow cemetery. [3]