Shire Hall Museum
Shire Hall Museum is a museum in Monmouth. This is a site of Monmouthshire County Council. Close by, Monmouth Castle is 100 m away, one of 30 within 15 km.
Museum in Monmouth
Inside Monmouth
Shire Hall Museum is inside Monmouth’s built-up area, with 9 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The weather, month by month
Warm weather in Monmouth runs May to September, with highs of 17–22°C.
Shire Hall Museum
It has articles in 8 Wikipedias.
- Type
- Museum
- Run by
- Monmouthshire County Council
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 8 languages
- Town
- in Monmouth
Mapping Shire Hall Museum
The map centres on Shire Hall Museum, in orange, with nearby places numbered.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Monmouth’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
The towns around Shire Hall Museum
Among the 5, Monmouth is the biggest, home to 10,330 people. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.
Monmouth
Lower Redbrook
Symonds Yat West
The Narth
Compare the 5 towns
| Town | Where Shire Hall Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouth | It’s in town | 10,330 | 12 |
| Lower Redbrook | 3.5 km southeast of it | 253 | 15 |
| Symonds Yat West | 6.1 km northeast of it | 287 | 4 |
| The Narth | 6.5 km south of it | 364 | 2 |
| Llangrove | 6.6 km north of it | 435 | 3 |
Close to Shire Hall Museum
30 more lie within 15 km, 4 castles, 2 abbeys or priories and an attraction among them.
Castle · CadwMonmouth Castle100 m away2
Abbey or prioryMonmouth Priory200 m away3AttractionAttractionMonmouth Heritage Trail600 m away4
CastleCastle House100 m away5GardenGardenNelson Garden100 m away6
Abbey or priory · CadwTintern Abbey13 km away7
Castle · CadwRaglan Castle10 km away8
Castle · English HeritageGoodrich Castle9.9 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Good to know about Shire Hall Museum
Where is Shire Hall Museum?
Shire Hall Museum is in Monmouth, Gwent, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Shire Hall Museum?
Museum in Monmouth, UK.
Who runs Shire Hall Museum?
Monmouthshire County Council.
When is the best time to visit Shire Hall Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Monmouth, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Shire Hall Museum?
Within 15 km: Monmouth Castle (100 m), Monmouth Priory (200 m), Monmouth Heritage Trail (600 m) and Castle House (100 m).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Shire Hall Museum: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Monmouth Castle: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Monmouth Priory: Philbly, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Castle House: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tintern Abbey: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raglan Castle: Tyssil, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Goodrich Castle: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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