Qualla: Chepstow https://qualla.com/chepstow en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chepstow https://qualla.com/chepstow Chepstow: Introduction https://qualla.com/chepstow/ Chepstow Castle was begun in 1067, the year after Hastings - which makes it, by most reckonings, the oldest surviving stone castle in Britain. William FitzOsbern threw it up on a limestone cliff above the tidal River Wye, with the river itself as one of its walls, and from that perch the Normans set about taming the Welsh borderlands. Nine and a half centuries later the cliff still falls sheer to the water, the castle's stone keep still stands, and on a high spring tide the Wye runs forty feet up against the rock. Few places in Britain announce the medieval world quite so plainly.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/chepstow-wp/gcnj-chepstow-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chepstow: Easternmost Wales https://qualla.com/chepstow/ Chepstow is technically the easternmost town in Wales, pinned against the Gloucestershire border on the tidal Wye, about two miles above the river's confluence with the Severn. The Severn Bridge - the older of the two great crossings - touches down on its outskirts, and the town ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/chepstow-wp/gcnj-chepstow-easternmost-wales.mp3 0:06 2 full Chepstow: The Castle and the Cliff https://qualla.com/chepstow/ FitzOsbern's original keep is the heart of Chepstow Castle, and it is the oldest piece of secular stone architecture surviving in Britain. Successive owners added curtain walls, gatehouses, towers and a marvellous set of timber doors - the Chepstow Castle doors, still on display ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/chepstow-wp/gcnj-chepstow-the-castle-and-the-cliff.mp3 0:06 3 full Chepstow: Priory, Bridge, Town https://qualla.com/chepstow/ Down in the walled town, the Benedictine Priory of St Mary was founded in 1067 alongside the castle. Its Norman west doorway survives, weathered but intact, and inside are Jacobean tombs and centuries of accumulated alterations. The Old Wye Bridge below the castle dates from 1816...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/chepstow-wp/gcnj-chepstow-priory-bridge-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Chepstow: Industrial Edges https://qualla.com/chepstow/ Chepstow was a shipbuilding town. One of the First World War's National Shipyards was thrown up here on the riverbank, and the heavy engineering tradition continued for decades - the Mabey Bridge works prefabricated bridges and, later, wind turbine towers, sending vast steel sect...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/chepstow-wp/gcnj-chepstow-industrial-edges.mp3 0:06 5 full Chepstow: Border Town https://qualla.com/chepstow/ Wales begins or ends here, depending on which way you are travelling. Cross the old bridge eastbound and you are in England within fifty yards. Cross westbound and you are pointed up the Wye Valley toward Tintern Abbey, Monmouth and the deep folds of Welsh upland. That hinge qual...

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