would have been used to call members to services. By 1980 one side of the tower had fallen and by 2000 the house was described as "now miserably derelict". After years of neglect the property was the subject of a compulsory purchase order, with no compensation, by Monmouthshire County Council and in 2001 the council handed it to the preservation body the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust. The Trust secured a £300,000 grant from Cadw, borrowed the same amount from the Architectural Heritage Fund, and also planned to spend £400,000 of its own funds on the restoration. The name Allt-y-Bela derives from the Welsh, meaning "wooded heights or cliff of the wolf." Today the property is run as a bed and breakfast guest house. Notes References External links Llangwm and District Community Website Geograph photos of Llangwm Old photos of the village by Francis Frith "Llangwm Uchaf" at cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk Llangwm at genuki.org Villages in Monmouthshire Former communities in Monmouthshire