[4] In 1880 Chepstow RFC were thought to be one of the clubs at the Tenby Hotel in Swansea which is incorrectly believed to have been the founding meeting of the Welsh Rugby Union.

In 1881 Chepstow player Edward Peake was selected to represent the very first Welsh rugby international, played against England.

[6] In 1969 a match was held between Chepstow and a Welsh XV that included many famous players such as Brian Price.

The match was supposedly held to commemorate the founding of what at the time was claimed to be the oldest rugby club in Wales.

Glyn Davidge who was capped nine times for Wales and was the hero of the defeat of the All Blacks by Newport played for Chepstow for a number of years in the early 1960s