Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Town Bank & Ditches
Montgomery, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Montgomery, Powys, recorded as Town Wall (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Town Wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- Montgomery
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.56222, -3.14834
- SAM number
- MG023
- Cadw record number
- 1977
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the scheduled monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a stretch of the medieval town wall.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval defensive organisation and of the growth of towns. The monument forms an important element within the wider medieval context and the structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to chronology, building techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Steppe HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 1 Chapel PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone call-box opposite Chapel PlaceCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- No 2 Chapel PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.