More information : (ST 539934) A bridge or ferry between Tallard's Marsh and the south end of Chepstow town walls is recorded by Wakeman who states that he had seen the foundations of abutments formed of piles and squared stones visible at low water on either side of the Wye. He suggests that Leland's (1535-43) reference to Chepstow town walls beginning "at the ende of the great bridge over Wy, and so cam to the castel, the which yet standeth...not far from the ruin of the bridge" means that the "great bridge" stood at Tallard's Marsh and "the ruins of the bridge" was on the site of the present Chepstow Bridge. (1-3) There is no trace of a bridge here. Waters and Clark, both local historians, had no knowledge of it. (4)
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