Crug Hywel, Brecon Beacons

Name: Crug Hywel
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#70 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

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Crug Hywel is an Iron Age Celtic hillfort, with a clearly visible earth and stone ditch and rampart. Crug Hywel is approached by a couple of public footpaths across farmland from Crickhowell and Llanbedr and visited by the Beacons Way. It lies within an area designated as open country over which the public have the right to roam. ()

Elevation: 1480 ftCoordinates: 51°52'46"N, 3°7'38"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Crug Hywel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tretower Court, Bear Hotel, Sugar Loaf, Ogof y Daren Cilau.

2.4 miW
Forts and castles, Museum, History museum
Tretower Court, Brecon Beacons
63 min walk • Tretower Court is a medieval fortified manor house in Wales, situated in the village of Tretower, near Crickhowell in modern-day Powys, previously within the historical county of Breconshire or Brecknockshire.
1.5 miS
Nightlife
Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
38 min walk • The Bear Hotel, formerly the White Bear, stands on Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. A coaching inn from the mid 18th century, the building has older origins from the 17th and 15th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons
81 min walk • Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf, is a hill situated 2 miles north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales and sits within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
3.6 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Ogof y Daren Cilau, Brecon Beacons
91 min walk • Ogof y Daren Cilau is one of several cave systems in the Llangattock escarpment near Crickhowell in south Powys, Wales. The cave was discovered in 1957 and is one of the longest cave systems in the country.
1.6 miS
Historical place, Town, Forts and castles
Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell
41 min walk • Crickhowell Castle is a Grade I listed building in Crickhowell, Wales, now largely ruined. An alternative name, "Alisby's Castle", is sometimes used; this is thought to be after a former governor of the castle, Gerald Alisby.
2.4 miW
Forts and castles
Tretower Castle, Crickhowell
63 min walk • Tretower Castle is a Grade I-listed ruined castle in the village of Tretower in the county of Powys, Wales. It was built around the beginning of the twelfth century as a motte and bailey castle and this was probably replaced mid-century by a stone shell keep.
1.7 miS
Bridge
Crickhowell Bridge, Crickhowell
44 min walk • Crickhowell Bridge is an 18th-century bridge that spans the River Usk in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. The main A4077 road to Gilwern crosses it. The bridge is claimed to be the longest stone bridge in Wales at over 128 metres.
1.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Cerrig-calch, Brecon Beacons
30 min walk • Pen Cerrig-calch is a subsidiary summit of Waun Fach in the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Powys, Wales. Its summit, at a height of 701 m, is marked by a trig point.
1.5 miS
Church
St Edmund's Church, Crickhowell
39 min walk • St Edmund's Church is located in Crickhowell, in southeastern Powys, Wales. Built in the early 14th century, the church is dedicated to Saint Edmund the king and martyr. It has been known by this name from its establishment in 1303. In a will dated 1576 in the register office at Brecon, it is termed the parish of Saint Edmund.
2.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Allt-mawr, Brecon Beacons
64 min walk • Pen Allt-mawr is a 719 metres high subsidiary summit of Waun Fach and the third highest peak in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales.
3.6 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Ogof Agen Allwedd, Brecon Beacons
92 min walk • Ogof Agen Allwedd or Agen Allwedd, is, at 32.5 kilometres, one of the longest cave systems in Wales, and the longest cave system on the Llangattock escarpment.