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When Elizabeth and Henry left Troy after five days of hospitality, they had only a short seven-mile journey in a south-westerley direction to reach their next destination, Raglan Castle (or โRaglandโ as it was known until at least the early nineteenth century).ย
An 1801 account of the road from Monmouth to Raglan describes the scenery the royal couple would have encountered as they began their journey, โOn leaving Monmouth the road leads for near two miles throโ a pleasant enclosed valley, skirted by gentle swellings, clothed or cultivated to their summits but gaining the higher ground at Wonastow. The view unfolds itself in a beautiful and extensive manner, over a rich and fertile countryโฆโ
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