YOUNG ALHS
floods in abergavenny
When Storm Claudia hit the hills above Abergavenny on the night of 14th November 2025 the people of the town were shocked to see the flood in Frogmore Street from where the Cibi Brook had grown too big fit into the tunnels (culverts) that take it under a lot of the town. The Cibi flooded the road at The Chain then backed up and broke down a garden wall in Pen-y-pound. It gushed down to flood the Brecon Road as well as Frogmore Street.
The Gavenny river also backed up at the Lower Monk Street bridge and overflowed into Swan Meadows. The Usk flooded on to Castle Meadows but that is a more frequent happening that we are used to seeing.
While it is many years since the Cibi used to flood, the last serious flood from the Gavenny River was in 1931 when the river swept away the bridge that then went over the river in Lower Monk Street and the water undermined the first house in Asylum Terrace so that it had to be demolished. Some people had to escape from their houses in Mill Street through their roofs.
(Images: Imelda Perez via Facebook, Wikimedia Commons, Monlife Heritage)
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