Monmouthshire, a west of England county lying N. of the Severn estuary, between Glamorgan and Gloucestershire; is low and flat in the S., but otherwise hilly, and is traversed by the Usk River; more than half the surface is under permanent pasture; the wealth of Monmouthshire consists of coal and iron-stone; Monmouth (5), the county town, is the centre of beautiful scenery, and has some fine buildings.
Population (circa 1900) given as 252,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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