Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell

Name: Crickhowell Castle
Address: A40 Crickhowell, Crickhowell, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Crickhowell

Top attraction, Historical place, Town, Forts and castles

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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. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 51°51'26"N, 3°8'14"W

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A40 CrickhowellCrickhowell United Kingdom

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Crickhowell Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

2.7 miNW
Forts and castles, Museum, History museum
Tretower Court, Brecon Beacons
69 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.
~720 ftN
Nightlife
Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
4 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.
2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Ogof y Daren Cilau, Brecon Beacons
51 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.
2.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Tretower Castle, Crickhowell
69 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.
~1150 ftW
Bridge
Crickhowell Bridge, Crickhowell
6 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.
3.2 miS
Natural attraction, Nature and wildlife, Park
Clydach Gorge, Brecon Beacons
81 min walk • The Clydach Gorge is a steep-sided valley in south-east Wales down which the River Clydach flows to the River Usk. It runs for 5.6 kilometres from the vicinity of Brynmawr in Blaenau Gwent eastwards and northeastwards to Gilwern in Monmouthshire.
2.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Cerrig-calch, Brecon Beacons
66 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.
~760 ftNW
Church
St Edmund's Church, Crickhowell
4 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.
2.8 miSE
Canal
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Brecon Beacons
72 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...
3.3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Caves of Aruba, Brecon Beacons
85 min walk • Of the several caves of Aruba, three Aruban caves are well known, seen in deep crevices on the windward face of the island. All three of the caves are located in the Arikok National Park. The most prominent are Guadirikiri Cave, the Fontein Cave and the Huliba Cave. Nocturnal bats nestle in all these caves.
2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Ogof Agen Allwedd, Brecon Beacons
51 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.