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The River Wye, between Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire at Chepstow

River Wye The River Wye is the fifth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and for most of its 134 miles it marks several county boundaries, but remains for almost its whole length a rural stream. The Wye rises is in the Cambrian Mountains, on Plynlimon, cutting a green dale for many miles between high peaks and running down to villages and little towns such as Rhayader, Builth Wells and Hay-on-Wye. The only great town on the river is the City of Hereford. It lower course in broad loops separates Gloucestershire from Monmouthshire until finally disgorging into the Severn Estuary below Chepstow. (Read more)