page_title: Llangybi, Monmouthshire
section_title: The White Hart
hierarchical_section_title: Llangybi, Monmouthshire / History and buildings / The White Hart
caption_attribution_description: English: The White Hart, Llangybi The White Hart Village Inn in Llangybi.
context_page_description: Llangybi is a village and community in Monmouthshire, in southeast Wales, United Kingdom. It is located 3 miles south of the town of Usk and 5 miles north of Caerleon, in the valley of the River Usk.
  The village itself had a population of 444.
context_section_description: The White Hart inn a Grade II* listed building, was first built in the early 16th century and was to become the property of Henry VIII as part of Jane Seymour's wedding dowry. A century later Oliver Cromwell is reputed to have used it as his headquarters in Monmouthshire during the English Civil War. The interior still retains no fewer than 11 fireplaces from the 17th century, a wealth of exposed beams, original Tudor period plasterwork and even a priest hole. The Catholic martyr David Lewis preached in the inn when the church was closed to him; he was executed in Usk in 1679.
  In 2003 Philip Edwards, former King Alfred professor of English literature at Liverpool University suggested that T. S. Eliot made cryptic reference to this pub and the village well in his 1935 poem "Usk". Refurbishment of the inn was completed in April 2007.
caption: The White Hart
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