Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons

Name: Sugar Loaf
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#17 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf, is a hill situated 2 miles north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales and sits within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the Black Mountains, with a height of 1,955 feet. Sugar Loaf was gifted to the National Trust by suffragette Lady Rhondda. ()

Elevation: 1955 ftProminence: 1348 ftCoordinates: 51°51'46"N, 3°3'28"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Sugar Loaf – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Beacons Way, Bear Hotel, Ysgyryd Fawr, Church of Our Lady and St Michael.

3.8 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Beacons Way, Brecon Beacons
97 min walk • The Beacons Way is a waymarked long distance footpath in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. It is a linear route which runs for 99 miles east to west through the National Park, and passes many of the most important landmarks and mountain peaks in the mountain range.
3.4 miW
Nightlife
Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
87 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.
3.6 miE
Natural attraction, Hiking trail, Park
Ysgyryd Fawr, Abergavenny
93 min walk • Ysgyryd Fawr is an easterly outlier of the Black Mountains in Wales, and forms the easternmost part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The hill is often referred to locally as just The Skirrid. The smaller hill of Ysgyryd Fach or "Little Skirrid" lies about 4.5 km / 2.5 mi to the south.
3 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Church of Our Lady and St Michael, Abergavenny
76 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.
3.4 miSE
Shopping, City wall
Abergavenny town walls, Abergavenny
87 min walk • Abergavenny's town walls are a sequence of defensive walls built around the town of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.
3.2 miSW
Canal
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Brecon Beacons
82 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...
2.5 miS
Church
St Peter's Church, Brecon Beacons
63 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.
2.3 miN
Church
Church of St Issui, Brecon Beacons
59 min walk • The Church of St Issui, Partrishow, Powys, Wales, is a parish church dating from 1060. The existing building was mainly constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries and was sensitively restored in 1908–1909.
3.1 miS
Church
Llanwenarth Baptist Chapel, Brecon Beacons
80 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.
2.8 miSE
Church
Church of St Teilo, Llanfoist
73 min walk • The Church of St Teilo is the parish church of Llantilio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Wales. "An unusually large and varied church", it is a Grade I listed building as of 1 September...
3.2 miW
Archaeological site
Crug Hywel, Brecon Beacons
81 min walk • Crug Hywel is an Iron Age Celtic hillfort, with a clearly visible earth and stone ditch and rampart. Crug Hywel is approached by a couple of public footpaths across farmland from Crickhowell and Llanbedr and visited by the Beacons Way.