Llanthony Abbey, Brecon Beacons
#20 among attractions in Brecon Beacons
Facts and practical information
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. ()
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Llanthony Abbey – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Llanthony Priory, Black Hill, Hay Bluff, Twmpa.
- 3.2 miSERuins, Historical place, Monastery
Llanthony Priory, Brecon Beacons
81 min walk • Llanthony Priory is a partly ruined former Augustinian priory in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep-sided once-glaciated valley within the Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It lies seven miles north of Abergavenny on an old road to Hay-on-Wye at Llanthony.
- 2.6 miNENature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Hill
66 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.
- 3.4 miNNature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hay Bluff, Brecon Beacons
86 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.
- 2.8 miNWNature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Twmpa, Brecon Beacons
72 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.
- 2.3 miNNature, Natural attraction, Hill
Black Mountain Hill
59 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.
- 1.3 miSNature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Chwarel y Fan, Brecon Beacons
33 min walk • Chwarel y Fan is a peak in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. It is the highest rise on the long ridge which extends southeastwards from Rhos Dirion.
- 2.4 miSWNature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Waun Fach, Brecon Beacons
62 min walk • Waun Fach is, with a summit height of 811 metres, the highest mountain in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. It is one of the three Marilyns over 600 m that make up the range, the others being Black Mountain and Mynydd Troed.
- 1.3 miWArchaeological site
Grwyne Fawr Reservoir, Brecon Beacons
34 min walk • The Grwyne Fawr Reservoir is located in the valley of the river Grwyne Fawr in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Completed in 1928, it has the capacity to hold 400,000,000 imperial gallons.
- 1.8 miSNature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
47 min walk • The Black Mountains are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.
- 3.2 miSEChurch
Church of St David, Brecon Beacons
83 min walk • St David's Church is a medieval structure at Llanthony Priory. Established as a church in the sixteenth century, and restored in the late nineteenth century, the church became a Grade I-listed building on 1 September 1956.
- 1.1 miNENature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hatterrall Ridge
29 min walk • The Hatterrall Ridge is a ridge in the Black Mountains forming the border between Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales and Herefordshire in England.