GROSMONT
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GROSMONT is an ancient borough, once governed by a mayor and corporation. It takes its name from the situation of the castle on a mount high
above the river Monnow, commanding an outlook over an extensive range of country. It has no distinctive Welsh name,
but in Welsh pedigrees and poetry appears as Grismond and Grismwnt. By this it would seem that as a place of defence
it was not used by the early Welsh, and owes its origin to the Norman conquest. This is to some degree borne out by the dedication of the
church to St. Nicholas, and not to a Welsh saint.
Bradney, J.A. Registers
MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS
CHURCHES
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS
PARISH RECORDS
Grosmont Parish Registers 1589-1812 [J.A. Bradney]
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
TRADE DIRECTORIES
MISCELLANEOUS
LINKS
Grosmont Village Website
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