Blorenge, Brecon Beacons

Name: Blorenge
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#48 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Blorenge, also called The Blorenge, is a prominent hill overlooking the valley of the River Usk near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, southeast Wales. It is situated in the southeastern corner of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The summit plateau reaches a height of 1,841 feet. ()

Area: 3.79 mi²Elevation: 1841 ftProminence: 440 ftCoordinates: 51°48'25"N, 3°3'36"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Blaenavon Ironworks, Abergavenny Castle, Abergavenny Town Hall, Abergavenny Museum.

2.4 miSW
Museum, History museum
Blaenavon Ironworks, Blaenavon
62 min walk • Blaenavon Ironworks is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon, Wales. The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide.
2 miNE
Museum, Forts and castles
Abergavenny Castle, Abergavenny
52 min walk • Abergavenny Castle is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087.
2.1 miNE
City hall
Abergavenny Town Hall, Abergavenny
54 min walk • Abergavenny Town Hall is a public building located on Cross Street, Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. The town hall, which also houses the town's market, is a Grade II listed building.
2.1 miNE
Forts and castles, History museum, Museum
Abergavenny Museum, Abergavenny
53 min walk • Abergavenny Museum is a museum situated in the grounds of Abergavenny Castle, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The museum is housed in the square 'keep' on the high point of the castle motte, in the hunting lodge built for the Marquess of Abergavenny in 1819 on the site.
2.1 miNE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Church of Our Lady and St Michael, Abergavenny
54 min walk • The Church of Our Lady and St Michael in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, is a Roman Catholic parish church. A Grade II* listed building, it was built between 1858 and 1860 to a design by Benjamin Bucknall.
2.1 miNE
Historical place, Church
Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny
55 min walk • The Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny is a parish church in the centre of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. St. Mary's has been called "the Westminster Abbey of Wales" because of its large size, and the numerous high status tomb monuments and medieval effigies surviving within it.
2.1 miNE
Shopping, City wall
Abergavenny town walls, Abergavenny
55 min walk • Abergavenny's town walls are a sequence of defensive walls built around the town of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.
3.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Coity Mountain
95 min walk • Coity Mountain is a flat-topped mountain in the South Wales Valleys, between Blaenavon and Abertillery. The highest points of both Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent unitary authorities are at the summit of Coity Mountain.
2 miNW
Canal
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Brecon Beacons
52 min walk • The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a small network of canals in South Wales. For most of its currently navigable 35-mile length it runs through the Brecon Beacons National Park, and its present rural character and tranquillity belies its original purpose as an industrial...
1.4 miN
Church
St Peter's Church, Brecon Beacons
37 min walk • The Church of St Peter, Llanwenarth, Monmouthshire is a parish church with reported origins in the 6/7th centuries. The current building dates from the early 14th century. Rebuilt in the 19th century, it was listed Grade II* in 1956. It remains an active Church in Wales church in the parish of Llanwenarth Citra.
0.8 miN
Church
Llanwenarth Baptist Chapel, Brecon Beacons
20 min walk • Llanwenarth Baptist Chapel, Govilon, Monmouthshire is the oldest Baptist chapel in Wales. Founded in 1652, the present building was constructed in 1695, and was remodelled in the 18th, 19th and 21st centuries. The chapel is a Grade II* listed building and remains an active Baptist chapel.