Bache Hill

#6246 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Bache Hill is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos, in the Radnor Forest in Wales. It is located to the east of Black Mixen. The summit is marked by a trig point built on an ancient burial mound, probably of Bronze Age date, like most of the summit cairns and round barrows in Wales. ()

Elevation: 2001 ftProminence: 135 ftCoordinates: 52°15'55"N, 3°9'12"W

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WalesUnited Kingdom

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Bache Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Offa's Dyke, Kington Museum, Ye Olde Tavern, Hergest Ridge.

7 miNE
Visitor center, Ruins
Offa's Dyke, Knighton
179 min walk • Offa's Dyke is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from AD 757 until 796, who is traditionally believed to have ordered its construction.
6.8 miSE
History museum, Museum
Kington Museum, Kington
173 min walk • Kington Museum is a volunteer-run local history museum in the market town of Kington, Herefordshire, England. It opened in June 1986 and occupies the stable block of the former King’s Head Inn. The building was extended in 1988, 1991 and 2005.
6.9 miSE
Nightlife
Ye Olde Tavern, Kington
175 min walk • Ye Olde Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at 22 Victoria Rd, Kington, Herefordshire, England, built in the late 18th/early 19th century. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, and features a parlour, public bar, plus a side-room, into which beer is provided via a serving hatch.
5.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hergest Ridge
135 min walk • Hergest Ridge is a large elongated hill which traverses the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom, between the town of Kington in Herefordshire and the village of Gladestry in Powys.
3.6 miSE
Church
St Stephen's Church
92 min walk • St Stephen's Church is a Church of England parish church in Old Radnor, Powys, Wales. It was constructed in the 15th century in perpendicular gothic style on the site of a 6th-century church.
1.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Black Mixen
30 min walk • Black Mixen is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos in the Radnor Forest. The summit is large peat bog plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.
2.9 miN
Forts and castles
Bleddfa Castle
75 min walk • Bleddfa Castle was a motte and bailey structure near Llangunllo in modern-day Powys, Wales. It is believed to have been built before 1195 and abandoned by 1304.
2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Rhos Fawr
51 min walk • Rhos Fawr is a mountain summit in the Radnor Forest, a rather isolated dome of hills to the north of the village of New Radnor. The local rocks are sedimentary shales and mudstones with some Silurian limestone. With a height of 660 metres, it is the highest point in the Radnor Forest and the historic county top of Radnorshire.
6 miNE
Church
St Andrew's
155 min walk • St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in Presteigne, Powys, Wales. It was first constructed in the 9th century by the Anglo-Saxons and retains elements of the original Anglo-Saxon church within a Norman renovation and later Victorian restoration.
4.7 miE
Prehistoric site
Burfa Castle
121 min walk • Burfa Castle is an Iron Age hillfort near the tiny town of Old Radnor, Radnorshire in Powys, Wales. The site is a scheduled monument described as a prehistoric defensive hillfort, and was included in an inventory of monuments by 1913.
6.4 miSE
Forts and castles
Kington Castle, Kington
162 min walk • Kington Castle stood in the medieval market town of Kington in Herefordshire, England. It was built in the 11th century and destroyed in 1215.