Cantlin Stone

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The Cantlin Stone is a rough stone approximately two feet across with an inscription recording the death of one Willam Cantlin in the place where it is, and the fact that he was buried at the Bettws. It is accompanied by a cross, and is located only twenty or so yards away from the Wales–England border. ()

Coordinates: 52°28'29"N, 3°10'32"W

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Cantlin Stone – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dolforwyn Castle, War Memorial, St Michael and All Angels Church, St Llwchaiarn's Church.

5.9 miNW
Forts and castles
Dolforwyn Castle, Newtown
151 min walk • Dolforwyn Castle is a Welsh medieval castle above the village of Abermule, Powys. The fortification was established by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd in the late 13th century.
5.5 miN
Memorial
War Memorial, Montgomery
141 min walk • The Montgomeryshire County War Memorial, located on the summit of Town Hill, south-west of the town of Montgomery, stands tribute to commemorate those from Montgomeryshire who have been killed in all past wars.
3.9 miNW
Church
St Michael and All Angels Church
100 min walk • St Michael's Church is the parish church of Kerry, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys. Kerry is sited about 3 miles to the S E of Newtown. which suggests that there may have been a church on the site since the 7th century.
5.9 miNW
Church
St Llwchaiarn's Church
151 min walk • St Llwchaiarn's church, Llanllwchaiarn was the parish church of Llanllwchaiarn, now within the community of Newtown with Llanllwchaiarn and lies within the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Powys. The church occupies a position on rising ground overlooking the river Severn and is to the north east of Newtown.
2.6 miSW
Forts and castles
Bryn Amlwg Castle
67 min walk • Bryn Amlwg Castle was an enclosure castle near Anchor, Shropshire, abutting the England–Wales border. It is a scheduled monument, listed in 1930. This was an enclosure castle of the 12th and 13th centuries, and had towers and a gatehouse. Only earthworks now remain.
6.1 miNE
Church
St Nicholas Church, Church Stoke
156 min walk • St Nicholas's Church, formerly called St Mary's Church until 1881, is a Church of England parish church in Church Stoke, Powys, Wales. The church's current building is largely the result of 19th-century reconstruction, but it retains its 13th-century tower with a later timber belfry.
7.5 miNE
Park
Roundton Hill
192 min walk • Roundton Hill is a rounded, steep sided, 1,210 feet hill, volcanic in origin, in the easternmost part of old Montgomeryshire, Wales, which juts into the English border near Church Stoke. It is managed as a nature reserve by the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, who acquired it in 1985.
1.9 miE
Forest
Clun Forest, Clun
48 min walk • Clun Forest is a remote, rural area of open pastures, moorland and mixed deciduous/coniferous woodland in the southwest part of the English county of Shropshire and also just over the border into Powys, Wales.
4.5 miS
Village, Forts and castles, Hotel
Beguildy
116 min walk • Beguildy is a village and community in Powys, Wales. It lies in a remote tract of countryside, 8 miles northwest of Knighton, on the B4355 road to Newtown, near the headwaters of the River Teme, at an elevation of 254 metres.