Place:Caer Went, Monmouthshire, Wales

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Caer Went from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CAERWENT, a village and a parish in Chepstow [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]. The village stands on Akeman-street or the Julian way, 2½ miles NW of Portskewett [railway] station, and 5 WSW of Chepstow; and has a post office under Chepstow. It was the Venta Silurum of the Romans; and it retains considerable fragments of the fortress walls, 505 yards by 390, and in parts from 9 to 12 feet thick and 20 feet high. Two tesselated pavements, portions of columns and statues, coins of Severus and Gordian III., and other Roman relics have been found. The parish includes also the hamlet of Crick.

"Acres: 1,962. Real property: £2,907. Population: 445. Houses: 83. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage. united with the [perpetual] curacy of Llanvair-Discoed, in the diocese of Llandaff. Value: £258. Patrons: the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff. The church has a rich porch, and striking early English arcades; was probably built of materials of the Roman city; and is in good condition. There is a Baptist chapel."

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The modern village is built around the Roman ruins, which are some of the best-preserved in Europe. It remained prominent through the Roman era and Early Middle Ages as the site of a road crossing between several important civic centres.

In 1935, in a move to reduce the number of parishes within Chepstow Rural District, Caer Went became part of the expanded civil parish of Caerwent which also covered three other former parishes: Dinham, Llanvair Discoed, and St. Brides Netherwent.

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