Llanthony
| Llanthony | |
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 Llanthony Priory |
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 Llanthony
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| Llanthony shown within Monmouthshire | |
| Principal area | |
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| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Gwent |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
| UK Parliament | |
Llanthony (English pronunciation: /ɬænˈtoʊnɪ/,Welsh: Llanddewi Nant Honddu) is a village in the community of Crucorney on the northern edge of Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom.
Llanthony is located in the Vale of Ewyas, a deep and long valley with glacial origins within the Black Mountains, Wales, seven miles north of Abergavenny and within the eastern section of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The village is on an unclassified road leading northwards from Llanvihangel Crucorney to Hay-on-Wye.
Llanthony Priory is situated here. This dates back to about 1100 when a Norman nobleman Walter de Lacy was inspired by an existing chapel to devote himself to solitary prayer and study. He was joined by others and a church was built on the site in 1108. By 1118, a group of about forty monks from England built the priory of Canons Regular, the first in Wales. It was constantly being raided by the Welsh and was soon in decline, and after Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion in the early 15th century, it seems to have become barely functioning. In 1481 it was formally merged with its daughter monastery at Gloucester it was later suppressed by Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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