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Chepstow
Town in Monmouthshire, Wales

Chepstow

Chepstow is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England.

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It is located on the tidal River Wye, about 2 miles (3 km) above its confluence with the River Severn, and adjoining the western end of the Severn Bridge. It is the easternmost settlement in Wales, situated 16 miles (26 km) east of Newport, 28 miles (45 km) east-northeast of Cardiff, 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Bristol and 110 miles (180 km) west of London.

Get in

Getting to Chepstow

Chepstow is well served by rail and road. The A466 follows the Wye Valley to Monmouth via Tintern and Llandogo. The 1966 Severn Bridge and M4 motorway provides easy access to London and elsewhere. As of 2023, all charges have been removed in every direction on both bridges.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    The Priory Church of St Mary

    Benedictine monks from Cormeilles in Normandy (Chepstow's twin town) were there until the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1540.

  2. 02
    Chepstow Castle

    Members free; adult £8.30; family £28.10; disabled person and companion free; juniors (aged 5-17) and seniors (aged 65+) £6.10; all children under 5 receive free entry.

  3. 03
    Chepstow Museum

    Gwy House, Gwent, Bridge St, NP16 5EZ (is opposite the Castle car park.),.

  4. 04
    The Severn Princess

    Restoration project of one of the Beachley/Aust ferry boats, which ran before the Severn Bridge was opened in 1966, has been rescued from Ireland and is being restored.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Chepstow Racecourse

    St Lawrence Rd NP16 6BE (A mile north of town on A466).

  2. 02
    National Diving & Activity Centre

    Tidenham NP16 7LQ (A48 two miles east of town), info@ndac.co.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

There is a fish and chip shop just outside the Town Gate (The Arch), in Albion Square, and a Chinese takeaway a little further up Moor Street, on the right; there is another sandwiched between the main car park and Bank Street, where you can also sit down. There is an Indian Restaurant at the top of Hocker Hill Street. There are quite a few pubs serving food as well as tea-rooms.

How locals move

Getting around Chepstow the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dominic Nelson (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.