text:  Abergavenny has a very bad approach from Monmouth and we dreaded a repetition of the delays and toughnesses we had just escaped from; how great therefore was our gratification when we pulled up at the door of the Angel and were shown into a splendid room thirty-five or forty feet long by twenty wide secured bedrooms as clean and comfortable as heart could desire and had every thing we asked for with the precision of clockwork and the rapidity of steam