Inside Great Castle House, this volunteer-run regimental museum is a labour of love squeezed into a cupboard-sized space. It traces the history of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (doubly royal!) from its origins as a 16th-century militia to its current role as the senior regiment of the reserve army.
Castle & Regimental Museum
Southeast Wales
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