Editing Abergavenny (section)

===19th and 20th centuries===
[[File:Abergavenny boys national school (3374847).jpg|thumb|Abergavenny Boys National School (1865)]]
[[Abergavenny railway station]], situated southeast of the town centre, opened on 2 January 1854 as part of the [[Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway]]. The [[London North Western Railway]] sponsored the construction of the railway linking [[Newport railway station|Newport station]] to [[Hereford railway station|Hereford station]]. The line was taken over by the [[West Midland Railway]] in 1860 before becoming part of the [[Great Western Railway]] in 1863. A railway line also ran up the valley towards [[Brynmawr]] and to [[Merthyr Tydfil]]; this was closed during the [[Beeching cuts]] in the 1960s and the line to [[Clydach Gorge]] is now a cycle track and footpath. The [[Baker Street drill hall, Abergavenny|Baker Street drill hall]] was completed in 1896.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drillhalls.org/TownAbergavenny.htm|title= Abergavenny|publisher=The Drill Hall Project|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref> [[Adolf Hitler]]'s deputy, [[Rudolf Hess]], was kept under escort at [[Maindiff Court Hospital]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]], after his flight to Britain.<ref>BBC. WW2 People's War – [https://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a5279240.shtml Marjorie's War]</ref> In 1964, the [[Royal Observer Corps]] opened a small monitoring bunker to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. It was closed in 1968 but reopened in 1973 due to the closure of a bunker near [[Brynmawr]]. It closed in 1991 on the stand down of the ROC. It remains mostly intact.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abergavenny ROC Post – Subterranea Britannica |url=https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/abergavenny-roc-post/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=www.subbrit.org.uk}}</ref>