A panel showing Monmouth's Heritage Blue Plaque Trail has been installed on the side of a pub in the town.

The panel, like the trail itself, is the result of a joint effort between Monmouth Civic Society and Monmouth Town Council and shows the locations of Monmouth's 24 blue plaques.

Grahame Thomas, of the civic society, explained where the idea for such a panel came from.

"I had heard that Ned Heywood of Chepstow had developed an exclusive process, in which photographs, images and text can be 'embedded' into the surface of white stoneware," he said.

"So I thought that the process would be ideal to create a panel covering the Monmouth Heritage Blue Plaque Trail.

"It would have a series of historic photographs and images centred around a town plan indicating the precise location of the 24 sites."

A brief was drawn up and the artwork was created by Platform One of Monmouth before responsibility for the panel was passed to Ned, a potter and Chepstow town councillor who made the blue plaques installed around Monmouth between 2008 and 2010.

The new panel is believed to be the first of its kind in Wales and sits proudly outside the Robin Hood at the end of Monnow Street.

"Its edges are finished with specially made clay tiles, which are glazed in blue to match the blue plaque above," added Grahame.

"It will form a permanent, maintenance free display panel, and is guaranteed colourfast for a minimum of 200 years."

The panel includeds a QR which smart phone users can scan to access the 'Monmouthpedia' web page.

A £510 award from Monmouth Town Council's Community Grants scheme helped the civic society fund the project, as did a contribution from Terry Pardington, owner of The Robin Hood.