Chwarel y Fan, Brecon Beacons

Name: Chwarel y Fan
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#54 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Chwarel y Fan is a peak in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. It is the highest rise on the long ridge which extends southeastwards from Rhos Dirion. The ridge continues southeastwards to the lesser summit of Bal-Mawr whose top is adorned by a trig point at 607 metres above sea level. A further 1 km southeast along the ridge is the lesser top of Bal-Bach at a height of just over 520 metres. Chwarel y Fan is the county top of the historic county of Monmouthshire, and is also the highest point in the current local government area of Monmouthshire. ()

Elevation: 2228 ftProminence: 236 ftCoordinates: 51°57'30"N, 3°4'52"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Chwarel y Fan – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Llanthony Priory, Longtown Castle, Llanthony Abbey, Black Hill.

2.1 miSE
Ruins, Historical place, Monastery
Llanthony Priory, Brecon Beacons
55 min walk • Llanthony Priory is a partly ruined former Augustinian priory in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep-sided once-glaciated valley within the Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It lies seven miles north of Abergavenny on an old road to Hay-on-Wye at Llanthony.
3.9 miE
Forts and castles
Longtown Castle
99 min walk • Longtown Castle, also termed Ewias Lacey Castle in early accounts, is a ruined Norman motte-and-bailey fortification in Longtown, Herefordshire. It was established in the 11th century by Walter de Lacy, reusing former Roman earthworks.
1.3 miN
Monastery
Llanthony Abbey, Brecon Beacons
33 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.
3.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Hill
90 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.
3.9 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hatterrall Hill, Brecon Beacons
100 min walk • Hatterrall Hill is a rounded peak in the Black Mountains which sits on the Wales-England border, partly in Monmouthshire, Wales and partly in Herefordshire, England. Its summit at 531m is the high point of a peaty plateau which falls away steeply on all sides. Broad ridges run to the north, the southeast and southwest.
3.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Mountain Hill
90 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.
2.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Waun Fach, Brecon Beacons
69 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.
1.9 miNW
Archaeological site
Grwyne Fawr Reservoir, Brecon Beacons
48 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.
1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
26 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.
2.2 miSE
Church
Church of St David, Brecon Beacons
56 min walk • St David's Church is a medieval structure at Llanthony Priory. Established as a church in the sixteenth century, and restored in the late nineteenth century, the church became a Grade I-listed building on 1 September 1956.
1.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hatterrall Ridge
48 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.