Maesyronnen Chapel

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Maesyronnen Chapel is about 1 mile north of the village of Glasbury, Powys, Wales. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade I listed building. The chapel is one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in Wales, and is the only chapel existing from that time to be largely unchanged and still in use as a chapel. It is currently administered by the United Reformed Church. ()

Built: 1690 (334 years ago)Coordinates: 52°3'44"N, 3°12'9"W

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Maesyronnen Chapel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hay-on-Wye Bridge, Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge, Hay Bluff, Twmpa.

3.5 miE
Bridge
Hay-on-Wye Bridge, Hay-on-Wye
89 min walk • Hay Bridge spans the River Wye at Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales. Preceding the rebuild, the bridge was partly of stone and partly of wood, which itself replaced a stone bridge of seven arches, destroyed by a flood in 1795, and some remains of which form part of the later structure.
6.4 miNE
Bridge
Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge
164 min walk • Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge is a single-carriageway, wood- and stone-construction in Herefordshire, England. The toll bridge carries the B4350 south from its junction with the A438, near Whitney-on-Wye, across the River Wye. It comprises two Grade II listed structures.
5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hay Bluff, Brecon Beacons
127 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.
4.8 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Twmpa, Brecon Beacons
122 min walk • 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.
5 miNE
Forts and castles
Clifford Castle
129 min walk • Clifford Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Clifford which lies 2.5 miles to the north-east of Hay-on-Wye in the Wye Valley in Herefordshire, England. It was the caput of the feudal barony of Clifford, a Marcher Lordship.
6.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Mountain Hill
158 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.
3.1 miE
Church
St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye
80 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.
3.5 miE
Bridge
Dulas Bridge, Hay-on-Wye
90 min walk • Dulas Bridge spans Dulas Brook, a tributary of the River Wye in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales. The Dulas bridge, near Hay station, was a joint counties bridge—Brecknock and Radnor.
4.5 miN
Forts and castles
Hay Castle
115 min walk • Hay Castle is a medieval fortification and 17th-century mansion house in the small town of Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales. Originally constructed as part of the Norman invasion of Wales, the castle was designed as a ringwork overlooking the town in either the late-11th or early-12th centuries.
5.3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Pwll y wrach, Talgarth
134 min walk • Pwll y wrach or Pwll-y-wrach is a feature on the River Ennig near Talgarth in south Powys, Wales. The river plunges in two separate streams over a lip of hard rock into a pool scoured in the softer mudstones of the underlying Raglan Mudstone formation.
4.3 miS
Church
St Ellyw's Church, Brecon Beacons
111 min walk • St Ellyw's Church, is a redundant church in the village of Llanelieu, Powys, Wales. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. It is sited at the edge of the Black Mountains within the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Maesyronnen Chapel

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Maesyronnen Chapel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)