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unusual facts about Castle House, Usk



Caerleon Comprehensive School

The school's catchment area covers Primary Schools in Caerleon and Ponthir, along with Langstone Primary School, Usk Junior School and some students from central Newport schools.

Castle House, Usk

Newman J., The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (2000) Penguin Books

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Llanfair Kilgeddin

St Mary the Virgin is the parish church for Llanfair Kilgeddin, near Usk in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.

Clydach Gorge

Subsequently considerable parts of the gorge have also been protected for their wildlife and habitats including the Cwm Clydach SSSI, Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve, the Cwm Clydach Woodlands SAC and the Usk Bat Sites SAC which also extends across much of the neighbouring Mynydd Llangatwg.

HMS Usk

At least three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Usk.

Huw Watkins

He has recorded Thomas Adèssong cycle The Lover in Winter with the countertenor Robin Blaze for EMI Classics, and his recording of contemporary British music for violin and piano with Alexandra Wood was released on Usk in 2005.

Lynne Carol

Josephine Palmer, stage name Lynne Carol, (29 June 1914, Usk, Monmouthshire–30 June 1990, Blackpool, Lancashire) was an English actress made famous by playing busybody Martha Longhurst in the soap opera Coronation Street from the second episode in 1960 until the character was killed off in 1964.

River Esk, Cumbria

This also applies to the similarly spelled rivers Axe, Exe and Usk with the changes to the name evolving over ten centuries of usage.

Sydenham Edwards

Edwards was born in 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, the son of Lloyd Pittell Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist, and his wife, Mary Reese, who had been married on 26 September 1765 at Llantilio Crossenny Church and where Sydenham was christened in 1768.

William Addams Williams

His wife, Anna Louisa Nicholl, was the daughter of Rev. Illtyd Nicholl, of Tredington parish in Worcestershire, and Anne Hatch (sister of George Avery); her brothers included Whitlock Nicholl the physician, and Illtyd Nicholl who inherited property near Usk.


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