Twmpa, Brecon Beacons

Name: Twmpa
Address: Gospel Pass, Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#36 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain, View point

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Twmpa or Lord Hereford's Knob is a mountain in south-east Wales, forming a part of the great northwest scarp of the Black Mountains. It lies 1.86 miles west of the border with England, and around 4.34 miles south of Hay-on-Wye. To the northeast lies the Gospel Pass through which runs a minor road between Hay and the Llanthony Valley. A ridge known as Darren Lwyd tapers away for about 3 kilometres to the southeast of the summit. ()

Elevation: 2264 ftProminence: 259 ftCoordinates: 52°0'31"N, 3°7'51"W

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Gospel PassBrecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Twmpa – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Llanthony Abbey, Black Hill, Hay Bluff, Castell Dinas.

2.8 miSE
Monastery
Llanthony Abbey, Brecon Beacons
72 min walk • Llanthony Abbey is a former Anglican monastic institution founded in 1869 by Joseph Leycester Lyne, in the Welsh village of Capel-y-ffin, a few miles from the medieval Llanthony Priory. It survived until 1908, after which it was the home of artist Eric Gill. It is now holiday accommodation.
3.1 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Hill
79 min walk • The Black Hill is a hill in the Black Mountains in Herefordshire, England at grid reference SO275348. It rises just west of the village of Craswall, near the border with Wales.
1.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hay Bluff, Brecon Beacons
41 min walk • Hay Bluff is a prominent hill at the northern tip of the Black Mountains, an extensive upland massif which straddles the border between south-east Wales and England.
4.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Castell Dinas, Brecon Beacons
108 min walk • Castell Dinas is a hillfort and castle in southern Powys, Wales. At 450 m it has the highest castle in England and Wales. It is positioned to defend the Rhiangoll pass between Talgarth and Crickhowell.
1.9 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Mountain Hill
50 min walk • Twyn Llech, also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain in the Black Mountains. It is the only Marilyn to fall exactly on the Welsh–English border, straddling Brecknockshire and Herefordshire. Its parent peak, Waun Fach, lies to the west.
4.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Chwarel y Fan, Brecon Beacons
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3.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Waun Fach, Brecon Beacons
82 min walk • Waun Fach is, with a summit height of 811 metres, the highest mountain in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. It is one of the three Marilyns over 600 m that make up the range, the others being Black Mountain and Mynydd Troed.
4.4 miN
Church
St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye
112 min walk • St Mary's is an Anglican parish church in Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire, Powys, Wales. Separated by a deep dingle, which probably was formerly a moat, it is situated westward of the town upon an almost precipitous eminence, near to the River Wye.
2.7 miS
Archaeological site
Grwyne Fawr Reservoir, Brecon Beacons
69 min walk • The Grwyne Fawr Reservoir is located in the valley of the river Grwyne Fawr in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Completed in 1928, it has the capacity to hold 400,000,000 imperial gallons.
4.3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
109 min walk • The Black Mountains are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.
3.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hatterrall Ridge
81 min walk • The Hatterrall Ridge is a ridge in the Black Mountains forming the border between Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales and Herefordshire in England.