Hen-allt Common, Hay-on-Wye

#4 among attractions in Hay-on-Wye

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Hen-allt Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Brecknock, Powys, Wales. Its special features include unimproved grassland, Flat-sedge Blysmus compressus and Meadow saffron Colchicum autumnale. ()

Area: 28.24 acres (0.0441 mi²)Coordinates: 52°3'9"N, 3°7'8"W

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Hay-on-Wye United Kingdom

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Hen-allt Common – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hay-on-Wye Bridge, Llanthony Abbey, Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge, Black Hill.

1.8 miN
Bridge
Hay-on-Wye Bridge, Hay-on-Wye
46 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.
5.4 miS
Monastery
Llanthony Abbey, Brecon Beacons
139 min walk • Llanthony Abbey is a former Anglican monastic institution founded in 1869 by Joseph Leycester Lyne, in the Welsh village of Capel-y-ffin, a few miles from the medieval Llanthony Priory. It survived until 1908, after which it was the home of artist Eric Gill. It is now holiday accommodation.
4.9 miN
Bridge
Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge
125 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.
4.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Hill
104 min walk • The Black Hill is a hill in the Black Mountains in Herefordshire, England at grid reference SO275348. It rises just west of the village of Craswall, near the border with Wales.
2.1 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hay Bluff, Brecon Beacons
54 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.
3.1 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Twmpa, Brecon Beacons
79 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.
3.6 miN
Forts and castles
Clifford Castle
92 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.
3.6 miW
Church
Maesyronnen Chapel
93 min walk • 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.
3.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Mountain Hill
85 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.
1.4 miN
Church
St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye
37 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.
1.8 miN
Bridge
Dulas Bridge, Hay-on-Wye
45 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.