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Venta Silurum

Venta Silurum was a town in Roman Britain (Britannia).

Venta Silurum
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The place

Venta Silurum was a town in Roman Britain (Britannia). The name Venta Silurum means "the town of the Silurēs", with the Silurēs being a powerful and warlike tribe. Today, it consists of remains in the village of Caerwent in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. Much of it has been archaeologically excavated and the nearby Newport Museum has many of the finds on display.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Venta Silurum

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.

  1. 01
    Caldicot 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
  2. 02
    Church 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.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church 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.

    3.1 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church 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.

    3.2 km · church in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church 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
  6. 06
    St 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
  7. 07
    Dewstow 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.

    1.6 km · grade II listed building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St 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
  9. 09
    Manor 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.

    2.1 km · building in Crick, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Runston 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 Venta Silurum

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 26 km · Cardiff (CWL), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 117 km
Stations
Caldicot railway station, 3 km · Severn Tunnel Junction railway station, 3 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Venta Silurum

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 Venta Silurum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    145 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    468 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    501 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    504 km

If you know how people move in Venta Silurum – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Venta Silurum

Venta Silurum is 21 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Caldicottown and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK2.6 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 km