title: Oldcastle, Monmouthshire
text: # Oldcastle, Monmouthshire
  
  Oldcastle (Welsh: Yr Hencastell) is a small village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.
  
  ## Location
  
  Oldcastle is located six miles north of Abergavenny just off the A465 Abergavenny to Hereford road.
  
  ## History and amenities
  
  The village is on the River Monnow and very close to the Black Mountains and sits right next to the Wales-England border .
  
  The village is associated with John Oldcastle of an old Herefordshire landowning family through the medieval period.
  
  