Caerwent
Caerwent is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales.

Caerwent is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located about 5 mi (8.0 km) west of Chepstow and 11 mi (18 km) east of Newport. It was founded by the Romans as the market town of Venta Silurum, an important settlement of the Brythonic tribe of Silures. 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. The community includes the small village of Llanvair Discoed. In 2021 Caerwent village had a population of about 1,200.
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Worth seeing in and around Caerwent
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Caldicot Castle
Caldicot Castle is an extensive stone medieval castle in the town of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, in southeast Wales, built near the site of Harold Godwinson's former Saxon castle by the Norman earls of Hereford from about 1100. The castle became a Grade I listed building on 10 June 1953.
2.7 km · Grade I listed building in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary, Portskewett
St Mary's is a church in the centre of the village of Portskewett, Monmouthshire, Wales. It has been designated a Grade I listed building since 19 August 1955.
3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary, Rogiet
The Church of St Mary is the parish church of Rogiet, a small rural village on the Caldicot Levels, 8 miles west of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.2 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Thomas a Becket
The Church of St Thomas a Becket is located in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales. In the late 12th century the land was inherited by Henry de Bohun.
3.1 km · church in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 05Church Farm
Church Farmhouse, Caldicot, Monmouthshire is a substantial grange building which was a working farmhouse before 1205. It is connected to both Llanthony Prima in Monmouthshire and Llanthony Secunda in Gloucester.
2.2 km · building in Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 06St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church, also called St Mary Virgin Church, is a Church in Wales parish church in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales. There is evidence that the church has pre-Norman foundations; however, the earliest part of the building dates from the 14th century.
2.4 km · church in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 07Dewstow House
Dewstow House, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales, is an early nineteenth century villa in a Neoclassical style. The house is notable as the site of "one of the strangest gardens in Wales." The building itself is plain; described by architectural writer John Newman as a "simple three-bay villa", it has extensive views over the Severn Estuary.
1.7 km · grade II listed building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet
St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet, is a redundant church in the hamlet of Llanfihangel Rogiet near the village of Rogiet, Monmouthshire, Wales. It has been designated by Cadw as a Grade II* listed building and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
3.2 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Manor Farm
Manor Farmhouse, or Crick Manor, Crick, Monmouthshire is a late medieval manor house dating from the 15th century. The buildings comprise a chapel, of 13th century origins, now a separate house, the medieval, stone hall, and a 16th-century wing.
2.2 km · building in Crick, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 10Runston Church
Runston Chapel, Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the ruin of a chapel dating back to the early 12th century. It is the only remaining visible remnant of the medieval village of Runston, although parts of the former domestic dwellings can be identified under turf-covered mounds on the site.
2.8 km · ruin of chapel near Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Caerwent
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 26 km · Cardiff (CWL), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 117 km
- Stations
- Caldicot railway station, 3.1 km · Severn Tunnel Junction railway station, 3.1 km
- Cardiff → Caerwent32 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £3.5–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Caerwent114 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–18
- London → Caerwent183 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Caerwent
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Caerwent. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe bridge over the river, which opened in 1906 and replaced a ferry (which promptly went bankrupt owing to an inevitable loss of custom), is particularly fine.
From Wikivoyage: Tintern, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Caerwent – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Caerwent
Caerwent is 21 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Caldicottown and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK2.7 km
- Rogietvillage and community in Monmouthshire, Wales2.8 km
- Shirenewtonvillage and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK3.2 km
- Portskewettvillage and community in Monmouthshire, Wales3.8 km
- Llanvair Discoedvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales2.7 km
- Crickvillage in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom2.1 km