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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