Saint Tathan, Abbot of nearby Caerwent, to whom the murderers confessed their crime, built a church on the spot where she was killed,[3] which became known as Merthyr Maches and later Llanfaches (the letter m mutating to -f- in Welsh).

Wroth defied Charles' instruction to read the Declaration to his congregation, and in 1634 the Bishop of Llandaff reported him to the Court of High Commission, seeking to remove him from his position in the Church.

[7] Wroth died shortly before the outbreak of the first English Civil War, and was buried beneath the church porch at Llanvaches.

[9] In 1854 George Borrow passed the chapel on his walk from Newport to Chepstow, a journey later included in his 1862 Wild Wales.

[11] In 2006 a hoard of 599 silver denarii, hidden in a locally made cooking pot, was found at Llanvaches by a metal detectorist.

A bus stop is a ten minute walk from the village as are the Rock and Fountain pub and a scout den.