Whitebrook

Coordinates: 51°45′19″N 2°40′33″W / 51.755242°N 2.675914°W / 51.755242; -2.675914
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Whitebrook
Whitebrook valley and the River Wye
Whitebrook is located in Monmouthshire
Whitebrook
Whitebrook
Location within Monmouthshire
OS grid referenceSO533065
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMONMOUTH
Postcode districtNP25
Dialling code01600
PoliceGwent
FireSouth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
List of places
UK
Wales
Monmouthshire
51°45′19″N 2°40′33″W / 51.755242°N 2.675914°W / 51.755242; -2.675914

Whitebrook (Welsh: Gwenffrwd) 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

Holy Trinity Church

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the Whitebrook valley - like the Angiddy valley at

esparto grass, brought in via the quay at nearby Llandogo.[1]

Although the industry had ceased by 1880, the valley retains the remains of several old mills, warehouses, dams and

Conservation Area.[3]

The Holy Trinity Church was built as a result of public subscription in 1835, to cater for the industrial community.[4] It has an intricately carved screen, made by Rev. Joshua Stansfield in 1892.[2]

Whitebrook today is known for its fine dining restaurant,

AONB surrounds the village, with Lower Hael Wood to the north. Across the river are the hills of west Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean through which Offa's Dyke Path
passes.

Notable residents

Novelist Julia Gregson lives in the village, which was also the home for some years of Gwydion Thomas, son of poet R. S. Thomas. The poet Paul Groves (born 1947) spent his childhood a mile to the south at The Narth.

Railways

The Wye Valley Railway went through the village between Monmouth Troy railway station and Chepstow railway station from 1876. Served by Whitebrook Halt railway station which was a request stop on the former Wye Valley Railway. It was built in 1927 to serve the village of Whitebrook and opened in February that year. It was closed in 1959 when passenger services were withdrawn from the Wye Valley Railway. The station came too late to make full use out of the village's industry. Whitebrook had once been home to three paper mills. However, paper making ceased in Whitebrook in the early 1880s, only four years after the line opened in 1876. The halt was not built until long after the closure of the paper mills.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 1-85306-312-6
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-14-071053-1
    .
  3. ^ Adopted Unitary Development Plan Archived 2010-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Gwent Churches: Holy Trinity, Whitebrook Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 22 April 2012
  5. ISBN 0-85361-530-6

External links
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