Historic SiteMonmouthshireCadw4.7
Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.
Monmouthshire County Council's Welsh Street long-stay pay and display car park (207 spaces, 18 disabled bays), built against the northern stretch of the wall, £2.30 for two hours to £7 all day, first two hours free on Sundays. Not a Trust car park, so membership does not cover it.
Cadw names a pay and display car park without saying which. The council's Welsh Street long-stay car park off Welsh Street and Bank Street abuts a standing section of the wall with a plaque, and the Town Gate is 166 m away at the top of the High Street. Monmouthshire County Council's pay and display tariff from 16 April 2026, Monday to Sunday 8am to 6pm including bank holidays: 2 hours £2.30, 3 hours £2.70, 4 hours £3.50, all day £7.00; on Sundays the first two hours are free and the rest of the day £1.40; blue badge holders park free in marked bays; pay by cash, card or PayByPhone. Visitors report a short free period, slow machines and public toilets in the car park. The council's Station Road (43 spaces) and Station (55 spaces) car parks are free and nearer the southern stretch of wall on Garden City Way.
Driving pin: the Welsh Street car park, 295 m north-north-west of Cadw's marker on the Garden City Way stretch and 348 m from Chepstow Castle's Castle Dell car park pin. By rail: Chepstow station, 400 m, on the Cardiff to Gloucester line. National Cycle Network route 42 passes the wall.
Chepstow Port Wall, Mur Porthladd Cas-gwent, is the extensive medieval town wall that Roger Bigod III built between 1272 and 1278 while he was improving the castle. Standing up to 13 feet high, it originally ran for almost three quarters of a mile from the west end of the castle across the neck of the promontory to the River Wye, enclosing not only the town and its port but a large area of orchards and meadows. Long stretches survive with the remains of several of its ten semicircular towers and the single Town Gate, whose wide pointed arch, carved heraldic tablets and restored lancet windows still span the top of the High Street. See it first at the Welsh Street car park, where the wall stands beside the parking bays with a plaque, then walk through the Town Gate to the best-preserved towered stretch along Garden City Way. Visitors find a surprising amount of wall remaining and single out the gate.
Open all year during reasonable daylight hours; no admission charge. The wall stands in and around the public streets of the town. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.
Terrain level 1, accessible: pavements, the car park and grass strips beside the wall; do not climb on the monument, which has hidden drops. Public toilets in the Welsh Street car park and free accessible toilets by the tourist information centre in Castle Dell. Drones are not permitted.
Dogs: Cadw: 'Dogs welcome'. The wall is seen from public streets, the car park and grass verges; Cadw's general rule at its open-air sites is a short lead at all times.
Photo: A surviving stretch of Chepstow's medieval Port Wall with a semicircular tower, seen across mown grass. Pasicles, CC0 1.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chepstow_Port_Wall.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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9 miles (15 km) linear from Caldicot Castle and Country Park, past the Bulwarks Camp and along the outskirts of Chepstow past the medieval town walls to the castle; a regular bus service links Caldicot and Chepstow, with few services between. Free.
