Monmouth is the historical county town of Monmouthshire in Wales and also a community. Situated where the River Monnow signs up with the River Wye, simply 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) of the boundary with England. The community is 30 miles (48 kilometres) northeast of Cardiff, and 113 miles (182 km) west of London. It is within the Monmouthshire neighborhood authority, and the legislative constituency of Monmouth. Monmouth's population in the 2011 census was 10,508, climbing from 8,877 in 2001. The town was the site of a small Roman ft, Blestium, and also became developed after the Normans constructed a castle here after 1067. Its medieval stone gated bridge is the just one of its type remaining in Britain. The castle later on entered into the belongings of the House of Lancaster, and was the birth place of King Henry V in 1387. In 1536, it came to be the county town of Monmouthshire. A market town as well as a focus of academic and social tasks for the bordering rural area, Monmouth has actually come to be a tourism centre at the heart of the Wye Valley.