Derry Ormond Tower

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Derry Ormond Tower is a Grade II*-listed folly situated above Betws Bledrws, 3 miles north of Lampeter in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. It was built in the early nineteenth century as an unemployment relief project. ()

Coordinates: 52°8'43"N, 4°3'44"W

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Derry Ormond Tower – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: St Peter's Church, Lampeter Museum, Church of Saint David, Bremia Fort.

2.3 miS
Church
St Peter's Church, Lampeter
58 min walk • St Peter's Church, Lampeter, is the Church in Wales parish church for the University town of Lampeter. It is a Grade II listed building, and has been described as "the best Victorian church in the county ".
2.3 miS
Bars and clubs, Nightlife, Museum
Lampeter Museum, Lampeter
59 min walk • The Lampeter Museum was founded in 2014 by Hanes Llambed, the local history society, at the university campus. The museum covers the cultural and agricultural development of Lampeter as well as the history of the college which was founded in 1822.
5.1 miNE
Church
Church of Saint David
131 min walk • St David's Church is a Grade II* listed medieval church in the Welsh village of Llanddewi Brefi, 3 miles south of Tregaron in the county of Ceredigion.
4.5 miNE
Forts and castles
Bremia Fort
115 min walk • Bremia is the name of the Roman fort in Llanio, West Wales. It is in Llanddewi Brefi community area, south-west of Tregaron, in Ceredigion. The fort was built by the Romans around AD 75 and was in use to AD 120 in Roman Wales. The fort was situated on Sarn Helen, a Roman road leading north from the fort at Dolaucothi.
5.4 miNW
Concerts and shows, Theater
Theatr Felinfach
137 min walk • Theatr Felinfach is a small regional theatre located outside the village of Ystrad Aeron in Dyffryn Aeron, about 7 miles from the university town of Lampeter in Ceredigion, Wales.
7.5 miNE
Town
Tregaron
191 min walk • Tregaron is an ancient market town in Ceredigion, Wales, astride the River Brenig, a tributary of the River Teifi. Tregaron is 11 miles northeast of Lampeter.
2.3 miS
Fountain
Harford Fountain, Lampeter
60 min walk • Harford Fountain, is a 19th-century grade II listed fountain in Harford Square, in Lampeter, Ceredigion.
2.2 miS
Forts and castles
Lampeter Castle, Lampeter
57 min walk • Lampeter Castle, sometimes known as Stephen's Castle, was built during the Norman expansion into Wales at the end of the eleventh century. The motte is in the grounds of Lampeter University but the precise whereabouts of the bailey is unknown. It was captured by Cadell ap Gruffydd in 1146.
5.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Trychrug
150 min walk • Trychrug is a mountain in Ceredigion, Wales, which rises to 343 metres high at SN542599 to the north of the valley of the River Aeron and south of the valley of the Afon Wyre.
6.4 miSW
Town
Llanybydder
163 min walk • Llanybydder is a market town and community straddling the River Teifi in Carmarthenshire, West Wales. At the 2011 Census, the population of the community was 1,638, an increase from 1,423 at the 2001 Census.